EVERETT, Wash.-- Breanna Stewart resembled outscoring the New York Liberty all by herself during the second , she had some assistance from her Seattle Storm tallied 21 of her 33 factors after halftime, with 13 of those during the 3rd quarter, and the Tornado ended up the video game on a 31-11 racking up go to defeat the Liberty inside Angel Of The Winds Sector on Thursday night, 85-75. Seattle therefore broke a three-game losing touch and kept itself in opinion for one of the top two areas in the standings and a bye via both knockout rounds of the playoffs. The Storm currently have the No. 3 general spot by one portion factor ahead of York, which has shed six straight video games because coming from 15 factors to grab an 83-79 triumph against Seattle in Brooklyn on Aug. 18, built a pair of 10-point leads throughout the third quarter. The second of those went to 64-54 with 1:49 left in the the Storm called the last 9 factors of the third, with Stewart accountancy for the last 7 of those: a lay-in and subsequent three-point play, then 4 straight complimentary toss. That brought Seattle within one at 64-63 going into the Liberty twice stabbed in the back leading by three, the last time at 68-65 with 7:28 to go. The Storm then phoned the next 10 indicate take the lead forever. Epiphanny Prince and Stewart hit back-to-back driving lay-ins for a 69-68 lead with 6:36 left-- the very first Seattle had been ahead since the 1:01 mark of the opening , who hit 12-of-22 for the night https://www.storestormteam.com, wasn't finished yet. Her jumper from the appropriate side of the nasty line off a feed from Loyd made it 71-68. She adhered to that with a turn-around eight-footer right before the hoop and polished it off with a putback of her own missed out on shot, making it 75-68 at the 3:18 York obtained within four on 3 occasions after that, the last time at 79-75 with 1:28 left. Seattle tallied the last six points of the game, all at the charity line: 2 by Loyd, and the last 4 by Sue Storm obtained the very early dive on Thursday, rising 16-9 by the midpoint of the first quarter. The Liberty after that started draining them from downtown, striking 4 from long variety to spark a 20-8 racking up burst that left them with a 29-24 lead at the end of the quarter. It was still a five-point margin at halftime in New York's support, 45-40. After falling into the 64-54 opening late in the third quarter, the Tornado tightened the clamps defensively In limiting the Liberty to just 11 points via the final 11 mins, 49 seconds of the video game, they restricted them to simply 4-of-18 shooting from the area and required 7 she didn't rating in the last 3:18 of the video game, Stewart properly clinched it for the Tornado when she blocked a brief shot from the left of the hoop Sabrina Ionescu with 52.3 secs left, preserving what was still simply a six-point lead. Ionescu completed with 20 factors for the Liberty. She struck her very first 5 shots, with 2 from behind the arc. Yet Seattle limited her to just 3-of-11 the remainder of the way, and 0-of-5 from Tornado finish up a four-game homestand next Tuesday, Sept. 7 against the Washington Mystics, tipping off at 7:00 p.m. IT FELT LIKE TURN-BACK-THE-CLOCK EVENING Before tip-off, the Storm offered champion rings from Mercedes Russell Jersey last period to Natasha Howard and Sami Whitcomb. Both were traded to New York throughout the halftime, the group commemorated its 2004 and 2010 WNBA champions, the first two in a collection that now has actually grown to four. Coming out to midcourt for recognition were Tully Bevilaqua, Sheri Sam, and Finals MVP Betty Lennox from the '04 group, and Ashley Robinson from the '10 squad. In addition, there was a scoreboard video tribute to Lauren Jackson, who belonged to both groups.