PORTLAND, Ore. — \u2014 Carla Leite made the tiebreaking basket with 1:57 left in overtime and then converted a three-point play with 26.5 seconds to play as the Portland Fire ended the season with a 90-82 victory over the Golden State Valkyries on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
Leite finished with 18 points for the Fire (17-27), who snapped a four-game losing streak. Bridget Carleton led the Fire with 26 points, including five 3-pointers. <\/p>\n
Gabby Williams had 17 points for Golden State (31-12), which led 17-0 but had its six-game winning streak snapped. The loss clinched the No. 1 seed in the playoffs for the Minnesota Lynx. <\/p>\n
The teams traded free throws and 3-pointers to open overtime before Leite\u2019s layup gave the Fire an 84-82 lead. Kaila Charles missed a 3-point attempt for the Valkyries before Leite\u2019s step-back 20-foot jumper and free throw put Portland up 87-82. The Fire made free throws the rest of the way for the final margin. <\/p>\n
Tiffany Hayes\u2019 3-pointer gave Golden State a 75-68 with 2:13 left in regulation. Portland closed the gap on a pair of layups from Carleton and Megan DiLeo, and Leite\u2019s driving layup and free throw pulled Portland ahead 77-75. Williams\u2019 layup tied it at 77 but she missed an off-balance jumper to send the game to overtime. <\/p>\n
Carleton hit a 3-pointer with 3:20 left in the first quarter to stop the Valkyries\u2019 game-opening run. Golden State led 24-10 at the end of the first quarter. <\/p>\n
Portland clawed back into the game, closing the margin to 29-26 after DiLeo\u2019s layup and free throw. DiLeo added another layup and free throw to tie the game at 35 with 33 seconds left in the first half. <\/p>\n
The Valkyries closed out the half with a 40-37 lead. The teams wrestled for the lead in the third quarter but Golden State held a 61-58 advantage going into the fourth.<\/p>\n
Valkyries: Visit Los Angeles on Thursday, the final day of the regular season. Fire: Season complete. —— See AP\u2019s full WNBA coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. — \u2014 Carla Leite made the tiebreaking basket with 1:57 left in overtime and then converted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,230796,301067,82,630],"class_list":["post-906371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golden-state-valkyries-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-44817","tag-portland-fire-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-45514","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906371","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=906371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}