Boston, Mitchell lead Fever past Aces to force G5

INDIANAPOLIS -- All-Star halfway Aliyah Boston finished with 24 points and 14 rebounds and Kelsey Mitchell scored 25 points to assistance the Indiana Fever debar elimination successful the WNBA semifinals with a 90-83 triumph implicit the second-seeded Las Vegas Aces connected Sunday.

The best-of-five bid is present tied 2-2 with a winner-take-all Game 5 acceptable for Tuesday successful Las Vegas. The victor faces either top-seeded Minnesota oregon fourth-seeded Phoenix.

Indiana closed it retired aft Las Vegas mistakenly called a timeout it did not person with 30.1 seconds near successful the game. The method foul gave Indiana 1 escaped propulsion and possession of the ball, and the Fever made each 3 escaped throws to instrumentality an 87-77 lead.

The Fever broke retired their "Stranger Things" uniforms, possibly trying to nonstop a connection it wouldn't fto the high-powered Aces tally roughshod implicit a squad missing 4 cardinal players -- Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, Sydney Colson and Aari McDonald -- due to the fact that of injuries.

Boston and Mitchell past delivered it by starring the Fever to their 2nd consecutive elimination-game triumph successful this year's playoffs. They won the last 2 games against Atlanta successful a best-of-three first-round series.

Boston went 10-of-13 astatine the free-throw enactment portion Mitchell had 4 assists. Odyssey Sims had 18 points and made 4 cardinal escaped throws to adjacent it out. Lexie Hull added 7 points, 7 rebounds and 4 steals.

The Aces were led, arsenic usual, by four-time league MVP A'ja Wilson, who had 31 points aft a mediocre shooting show successful Game 3. Wilson had her 17th vocation playoff 30-point crippled to determination wrong 1 of the le...