Comets 80-72 Mercury (26 Aug, 2005) Box Score

Houston Comets

18-15, 8-9 away

	1	2	T
HOU	26	54	80
PHO	23	49	72

Phoenix Mercury

16-17, 11-6 home

Houston Comets

starters
Tina ThompsonT. Thompson
Michelle SnowM. Snow
Dominique CantyD. Canty
Janeth ArcainJ. Arcain
Sheryl SwoopesS. Swoopes
bench
Tari PhillipsT. Phillips
Roneeka HodgesR. Hodges
Sancho LyttleS. Lyttle
Felicia RaglandF. Ragland
Dawn StaleyD. Staley
Edwige Lawson-WadeE. Lawson-Wade
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
35	7-9	0-1	4-4	1	5	6	0	0	0	2	2	-1	18
36	8-15	0-0	1-2	2	9	11	4	0	2	1	1	-1	17
32	5-9	0-0	2-2	2	1	3	2	3	0	2	4	-1	12
28	2-5	0-0	6-7	0	3	3	0	0	0	4	3	-1	10
40	5-13	0-2	5-7	1	12	13	7	2	3	2	1	-1	15
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	-1	2
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	1-3	0-1	2-2	0	3	3	1	1	0	2	1	-1	4
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	30-56	0-4	20-24	6	34	40	15	6	5	14	13		80
	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Phoenix Mercury

starters
Penny TaylorP. Taylor
Ashley RobinsonA. Robinson
Diana TaurasiD. Taurasi
Anna DeForgeA. DeForge
Kamila VodichkovaK. Vodichkova
bench
Lisa HarrisonL. Harrison
Belinda SnellB. Snell
Niele IveyN. Ivey
Shereka WrightS. Wright
Angelina WilliamsA. Williams
Sandora IrvinS. Irvin
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
31	5-14	1-2	0-0	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	6	-1	11
23	0-5	0-0	0-0	1	3	4	1	1	2	0	2	-1	0
37	7-19	2-11	3-3	1	1	2	8	1	2	5	4	-1	19
33	4-12	2-6	1-2	2	1	3	2	3	0	2	4	-1	11
38	6-13	0-1	0-1	3	8	11	3	2	1	3	2	-1	12
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
7	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	-1	0
15	3-4	2-3	2-2	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	-1	10
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	1-2	1-2	2-2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-1	5
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	1-3	1-2	1-2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	-1	4
	27-73	9-27	9-12	9	18	27	18	7	5	10	20		72
	0.0%	33.3%	0.0%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

HOU wins 3-1

Mercury
57
Comets
59

Game 1

4/6

Comets
75
Mercury
80

Game 2

6/8

Mercury
66
Comets
77

Game 3

19/8

Comets
80
Mercury
72

Game 4

26/8

Footprint Center

3:00 AM, 26 August 2005

Phoenix, AZ

Referees:
Bonita Spence
Tina Napier
Denise Brooks-Clauser

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Minnesota	30	10	.750	-	L1
Las Vegas	27	13	.675	3	W5
Seattle	25	15	.625	5	W1
Phoenix	19	21	.475	11	L1
Dallas	9	31	.225	21	L9
Los Angeles	8	32	.200	22	W1

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Regular Season Series

HOU wins 3-1

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