Fourth quarter
And the ball is in the Lee Ladies hands and the Lee fans are getting loud and the Freedom fans join in.
Here we go.
Mickens pushes it up, D. Scott miss and here comes Freedom and Porter hits a jumper.
Mickens turns it oever but she grabs the board off the miss. It’s going Freedom’s way on the turnover.
K. Scott checks in and replaces Kemani Crawford.
Freedom works it around the perimeter, Mickens with the steal and misses the open layup.
D. Scott with a block and Mickens hits the layup the second time around.
McDonough fouls Maria Haas on the shot and she’ll shoot two.
Haas misses the first (Thompson checks in for Ceara Scott and Thomas is in for McDonough) and Haas hits the second. Lee ball with Freedom pressing away.
Thompson jumper, good. Now 48-26 Freedom.
Freedom slowing it down again, Mickens with the board off the miss, works it up, saves a turnover, and Scott is blocked.
Freedom pushes it and Porter hits the jumper with the foul. She’ll go for three the old fashioned way with 5:27 left and team up 50-26. Make that 51-26. Hartman didn’t like that call.
Lee ball, Mickens airmails a trey try. And Freedom gets it back with 5 minutes left to play. D. Scott with the board, K. Scott misses the layup and shakes her head and Dionna Scott is fouled by Mickens on the other end. Scott to the line for two. She hits the first (4:30 left to play) and does the same with the second.
Freedom keeps the press on and here comes Lee. Mickens blocked and Freedom turns it over on the other end. K. Scott miss, Mickens miss on putback and Porter coverts on the other end for Freedom. Under 3:30 to play with Lee down 55-26.
And the Freedom fans rise to their feet as TV stops the game yet again.
Mickens inbounds for Lee under their net, and Daquaa Scott is fouled underneath. She’ll shoot two. Scott hits the first and the second. It’s now 55-28.
Lee ball and D. Scott misses and it’s Freedom’s ball. And we’re under 2:30 left to play.
Porter drives and is fouled by D. Scott in the lane so she’ll shoot two with. She hits the first, misses the second.
Mickens pushes it, and D. Scott hits the layup. We’re under 2 minutes to play with Freedom up 56-32 (Mickens with a layup.)
The Freedom fans are on their feet and it’s a technical foul on Freedom for a player with an incorrect number. And Mickens hits one of the two and it’s back to Lee. Tie up underneat and with one minute to play it’s Freedom’s ball.
And tha’ts how it will end with Freedom winning 58-33.
