{"id":43313,"date":"2025-08-03T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43313\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:49:08","slug":"howard-boston-lead-fever-to-fifth-straight-win-without-clark-over-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43313\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard, Boston lead Fever to fifth straight win without Clark, over Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE \u2014 Natasha Howard scored 21 points and the Indiana Fever<\/a>, playing without Caitlin Clark for a seventh straight game, beat the Seattle Storm<\/a> 78-74 on Sunday to extend their winning streak to five.<\/p>\n

Aliyah Boston had 16 points and 12 rebounds. Her run of nine straight Indiana points in the middle of the fourth quarter put the Fever up 73-61 with 4:41 to play.<\/p>\n

The Storm charged back, pulling within 73-72 on a three-point play by Skylar Diggins with 3:14 to go. Kelsey Mitchell made a short jumper for Indiana before the Storm missed their next five shots, including four three-pointers on one possession before Dominique Malonga scored inside with 12.2 seconds left.<\/p>\n

On the ensuing inbounds play, Lexie Hull got the ball to Mitchell for a layup with 8.1 to go and the Storm couldn’t hit a tying three before Boston’s free throw.<\/p>\n

Sophie Cunningham added 17 points for the Fever (17-12), who are now 9-7 in games Clark missed.<\/p>\n

Nneka Ogwumike scored 16 points for the Storm (16-13), who dropped their second straight at home. Diggins added 13 points and Gabby Williams and Malonga both had 12. Seattle lost to Los Angeles 108-106 in two overtimes on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Indiana led 19-16 after one quarter and had an 8-0 surge late in the second to lead by 10 before Seattle scored to make it 42-34 at the half.<\/p>\n

The Fever went up 55-42 on Cunningham’s 3-pointer midway through the third quarter but the Storm closed on a 10-2 run to cut the deficit to 58-54 entering the fourth. Indiana didn’t have a field goal over the last 4 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n

Olympic gold medal gymnast Jordan Chiles was court side for the game, which drew 16,819 fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Natasha Howard scored 21 points and the Indiana Fever, playing without Caitlin Clark for a seventh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-43313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}