tremendous at distributing the basketball and staying in front of a guy who is very, very hard to guard.” Out of the gates, the USA went
ahead 10-2 in the first three minutes of the game behind two quick 3-pointers by Hartley. Sweden responded with a 7-0 run of its own as the first half began to take on a back-and-forth pace. Sweden tied the game at 24 late in the opening period, and the USA led 26-24 at the first intermission. Sweden scored the first four points
of the second period to take a 28-26 lead with 9:18 remaining before halftime; the deficit marked the first time the USA had trailed since the 7:20 mark in first quar- ter of the opening game against Mali, a span of more than 128 minutes. The lead would change hands three
more times in the quarter before Sweden took what would be its largest lead of the game at 40-37 with 3:59 left in the period. The USA closed the half on a 14-0 run, including four points apiece
USA 103, Sweden 72 July 12, 2013
USA Sims
Hartley
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 26 5-11 9- 9 2 33 20 26 6-13 2- 3 5 20 17
Ellenberg 19 2- 7 0- 0 5 10 4 M.-Lewis 23 4- 9 0- 0 7 23 9 Plaisance 10 3- 3 2- 2 2 11 8 Massengale 23 4- 6 0- 0 3 42 9 Schimmel 7 0- 0 0- 0 0 11 0 Bradford 15 5- 8 0- 0 6 01 11 Hooper Gray
Liston
SWE Loyd
9 1- 3 0- 2 2 13 2 12 2- 3 2- 3 4 13 6 15 3- 5 2- 2 3 00 11
Harberts 15 3- 3 0- 0 3 15 6 Totals
27 3-11 1- 2 4 24 7
Drammeh 27 4-11 4- 4 9 04 12 Gultekin 25 5-10 3- 4 2 33 14 Hamilton 28 6-15 5-10 8 14 17 Stalvant 31 1- 5 1- 1 1 32 3 Hanson Loob
Nybom
16 0- 4 2- 2 3 01 2 6 1- 2 2- 2 1 00 4 6 0- 0 0- 0 0 00 0
Milenkovic 8 2- 4 0- 0 1 01 4 Kabengano 17 3- 7 1- 1 4 22 7 Ahlin Totals
9 1- 3 0- 0 2 02 2 200 26-72 19-26 35 11 23 72
USA Sweden
26 25 24 28 -- 103 24 16 16 16 -- 72
3-PT FGs-USA (10-24): Hartley 3-5, Liston 3-4, Sims 1-4, Mosqueda-Lewis 1-4, Bradford 1-2, Massengale 1-1, Ellenberg 0-3, Hooper 0-1; Sweden (1-19): Gultekin 1-6, Drammeh 0-3, Stalvant 0-3, Loyd 0-2, Hanson 0-2, Milenkovic 0-2, Ahlin 0-1. TO-USA 18, Sweden 14, ; BLKS-USA 0, Sweden 2, ; STLS- USA 8, Sweden 7.
76
200 38-71 17-21 42 17 22 103 MIN FG FT R A PF PTS
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis collected her fourth gold medal since 2009 after helping lead the U.S. to gold and averaging a team second best 13.0 points a game and a team high 6.8 rebounds a game.
from Bradford and Sims, to take a 51-40 advantage into the locker room. Sweden began the second half on a
7-0 run and remained within two posses- sions until the USA went on its 17-2 spurt in the final five minutes of the third quarter.
Bradford and Liston each finished
with 11 points to give the USA four scorers in double figures. Mosqueda- Lewis had a team-high seven rebounds and Massengale led the squad with four assists.
The USA shot 53.5 percent from the
field (38-71 FGs), including 41.7 percent from beyond the 3-point arc (10-24 3pt FGs), and 81.0 percent from the line (17- 21 FTs). Sweden was held to just 36.1 percent shooting (26-72 FGs) and was only 1-of-19 from 3-point (5.3 percent 3pt FGs).
USA 79, Australia 78 Despite leading by as many as 17
points during the fourth quarter, the Americans found themselves trailing Australia by one point in the final seconds before Bradford scored what would be the game-winning basket on a
put-back with 14 seconds left to give the USA a 79-78 victory in the semi- final round.
After letting a 71-54 lead with
under seven minutes left in the game slip away, the USA trailed 78-77 when they forced a 24-second violation to regain possession with 29 seconds remaining. After a U.S. timeout, Bradford drove the lane and sidestepped a defender to free herself for a lay-up attempt. The first try rimmed out, but Bradford collected her own miss and finished the put- back to put the USA ahead 79-78 with 14 seconds left.
“We had an offense that we had
already set up (with) a play, but we didn't execute it, so at this point we started cutting,” said Bradford on what led to her go-ahead score. “I saw that if I cut I would be open. When I got the ball, it was time to go. I sidestepped and saw that I was open. I thought the first one was going to go in, so I didn't expect to get the rebound, but it came off, and I grabbed the rebound. I knew I had to go up strong; I didn't even want to shoot free throws. And I went up,
and I made it, and I was excited.” The USA needed one last stop to
hold on for the victory or as it turned out, two last stops. Australia’s Marianna Tolo attempted an eight-foot jump shot contested by Harberts with :08 on the clock. The shot missed, and Sims initial- ly grabbed the rebound, however, Tolo tied her up to force a jump ball with seven seconds left and the possession arrow in Australia’s favor.
Given another chance, Australia
called Tolo’s number once more. Again, Tolo’s jump shot missed, and, again, Sims secured the board, though this time she was uncontested as she dribbled out the clock to finish the heart-pounding victory for the USA.
“I tell you what, that 14 seconds felt
like forever,” said Coale. “And then we did everything right, and I thought came up with the rebound, and they called a jump ball and we had to defend them for seven more. We had not been really good in defending their inbound plays. For a split second there, I thought about chang- ing the way we were guarding on the inbound, but I felt like the most impor-
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