Caitlin Clark gets triple-double and flagrant foul vs. Angel Reese in Fever’s opener

Ketlin Clark She opened the season with the third third of her career, and The New-Look Indiana fever The final took control of 16:30 on Saturday to withdraw from the renewal Chicago Sky 93-58.

But the game was defined by the latest chapter in Clark-Angel Rais Competition. This time, it came to a hard mistake from Clark through the arm of Reese, which mocked the ball and hit Riz to the ground with 4:38 left in the third quarter. When Rees jumped to face Clark, the Fever Center Supreme Boston I went up between the players while Clark moved away from the skirmishes.

The referees upgraded the Clark mistake to 1 Flagrant 1 and evaluated technical errors to Reese and Boston after reviewing the restart.

During an interview in the game with ESPN, Clark said there is nothing “harmful” about this error.

Clark said: “It is just a good thing.” “You know, either Angel gets two wide open points, or we send them to the free throw line. Nothing is harmful on this topic. It is just a mistake. Every basketball player knows that.”

When Reese was absent from the first two throws, Gybridge Fieldhaus erupted in chants. He made the second Reese, and though, and Courtney Vandersplot Make a ball throw on the possession that followed to reduce the deficit to 56-45. But Indiana closed the third quarter in the range 9-0 to advance 65-45. The sky was not really threatened in Indiana.

Clark, last season Wnba The rising for this year ended with 20 points, 10 rebound balls and 10 decisive passes, while four highly highly shots are banned.

Boston added 19 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks, while Natasha Howard She scored 15 points in her first fever.

Diwana Boner He also scored seven points to move to third in the WNBA professional list, passing through Tina Thompson. Boner now has 7,289 points.

Reese won 12 points and 17 rebounds for the sky, which lost three out of four seasons against Indiana. Ariel Atkins He added 11 points.

Stephanie White, a fever coach, won the first victory in her second training period in her first match in the state, where she won the Miss Basketball Prize in Indiana 1994-1995 and led Bordeaux to a national championship 1998-1999.

Report by Associated Press.

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