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Powell’s 20 lead Liberty past Dream 91-69

The Columbian
Published: July 13, 2011, 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — Nicole Powell scored 20 points and the New York Liberty cruised to a 91-69 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Wednesday.

Kia Vaughn had 14 points, Leilani Mitchell scored 12 and Plenette Pierson 11 to help New York (8-5) win for the sixth time in seven games. Cappie Pondexter and Quanitra Hollingsworth each added 10 points.

Angel McCoughtry scored 17 points, Coco Miller had 15 and Armintie Price added 12 for Atlanta (3-9), which has lost six of eight.

The Liberty scored six consecutive points, capped by Pondexter’s fastbreak layup, to take a 64-43 lead with 5:42 left in the third. Another 6-0 run, topped by a free throw from Hollingsworth 4:11 later, made it 75-50 — New York’s biggest advantage of the game.

Trailing by 24 after three quarters, the Dream cut the deficit in half with a 12-0 run to pull to 77-65 on Price’s free throws with 4:15 remaining in the game. Vaughn’s free throws 15 seconds later ended the Liberty’s scoring drought.

Pierson left the game with an apparent knee injury midway through the third quarter and did not return.

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