Mercury 78-74 Sting (22 Jul, 2006) Box Score

Phoenix Mercury

11-12, 5-7 away

	1	2	3	4	T
PHO	23	19	19	17	78
CHA	16	15	24	19	74

Charlotte Sting

7-17, 5-8 home

Phoenix Mercury

starters
P. Taylor F
K. Miller G
D. Taurasi G
C. Pondexter G
K. Rasmussen NA
bench
B. Snell F
J. Lacy F
K. Christensen NA
K. Vodichkova NA
J. Derevjanik NA
S. Irvin NA
A. Strother NA
C. Smith NA
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
34	3-12	2-4	6-6	3	3	6	0	3	2	3	4	-1	14
34	5-13	0-4	0-0	3	7	10	2	0	0	1	4	-1	10
32	9-19	4-11	5-8	1	2	3	4	3	0	2	4	-1	27
35	6-16	1-1	4-6	1	0	1	4	0	0	2	1	-1	17
29	1-4	0-1	0-0	6	6	12	1	0	1	0	0	-1	2
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
5	0-1	0-1	3-3	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	-1	3
13	2-6	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	6	-1	4
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
10	0-0	0-0	2-4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	-1	2
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
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	26-71	7-23	19-26	14	22	36	13	6	3	10	21		78
	0.0%	30.4%	0.0%

Charlotte Sting

starters
S. Sam F
M. Currie F
T. Smith C
T. Sutton-Brown C
H. Darling NA
bench
J. McCarville C
Y. Leuchanka C
A. Feaster NA
A. Walker NA
K. Mazzante NA
T. Butts NA
T. Fluker NA
L. Bond NA
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
29	1-4	0-3	0-0	2	1	3	4	1	0	3	2	-1	2
15	0-1	0-0	2-4	1	3	4	2	1	0	1	2	-1	2
34	11-20	2-5	1-2	1	4	5	1	2	2	1	2	-1	25
24	3-7	0-0	5-6	2	3	5	0	0	2	3	6	-1	11
12	0-5	0-3	0-0	0	3	3	3	1	0	2	1	-1	0
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
17	3-5	0-0	2-4	0	2	2	0	0	1	1	2	-1	8
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	1-5	1-4	0-0	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	-1	3
2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	-1	2
28	4-10	3-8	2-2	2	5	7	2	0	0	3	1	-1	13
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
18	2-6	0-0	4-6	0	2	2	3	0	0	0	3	-1	8
	26-64	6-23	16-24	11	25	36	15	5	5	13	21		74
	0.0%	26.1%	0.0%

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

Regular Season Series

PHO wins 2-0

Mercury
78
Sting
74

Game 1

22/7

Sting
84
Mercury
112

Game 2

4/8

11:00 PM, 22 July 2006

Referees:
June Courteau
Cameron Inouye
Angelica Suffren

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
New York	32	8	.800	-	L1
Connecticut	28	12	.700	4	W1
Indiana	20	20	.500	12	L1
Atlanta	15	25	.375	17	W3
Washington	14	26	.350	18	W1
Chicago	13	27	.325	19	L5

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Phoenix Mercury

Charlotte Sting

Regular Season Series

PHO wins 2-0

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