Coleman’s 3 at :16.1 wins it
Marissa Coleman’s tiebreaking 3-pointer with 16.1 seconds left gave the Liberty a 78-75 victory over the winless Indiana Fever on Sunday at the Westchester County Center in White Plains.
With the game tied at 75, Coleman caught the ball on the wing and made the 3 against her former team. Coleman came east as a free agent in the offseason. Indiana (0-8) had one last chance to tie it, but Kelsey Mitchell couldn’t get a good look from behind the arc and her shot fell short. Mitchell finished with 19 points.
Sugar Rodgers led the Lberty (3-4) with 16 points, all but three coming in the second half.
Rodgers hit three 3-pointers to start the fourth quarter and give the Libs a seven-point lead. Indiana rallied, scoring 10 straight points to take a 71-68 advantage with 2:30 left. Bria Hartley then took over with seven straight points for the Liberty, the last of which made it 75-72. Victoria Vivians then answered to tie it with 33.3 seconds left.
BOWYER WINS NASCAR
Clint Bowyer raced to his second NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season when Sunday’s event at Brooklyn, Mich., was called early because of rain. Bowyer beat out Kevin Harvick ona restart to begin the third stage, and then the race went under caution when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. went into the wall.
The rain, which delayed the start, put a stop to the race after 133 of the planned 200 laps on the 2-mile track. Harvick was second, and pole winner Kurt Busch Kyle Busch finished third. fourth.
Ryan Blaney won the first stage and Harvick took the second. After the end of the second stage, both Harvick and Bowyer came in to pit road. Bowyer took two tires and had position to the was outside of Harvick when the race went back to green. They battled for a bit, and Bowyer ended up with the lead in his No. 14 car.
lFerrari’s Sebastian Vettel won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal after leading the race from the pole to the checkered flag — and then some. Vettel picked up his second career victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The only hiccup was that the checkered flag was waved prematurely, while Vettel was still on his last lap. “Tell them not to wave the checkered flag when it’s not done yet,” he radioed back.
PIE MCKENZIE DIES
Johnny (Pie) McKenzie, the feisty right wing who helped put the big and bad in the Big, Bad Bruins of the late 1960s and early ’70s, is dead at the age of 80. He died in his Westfield, Mass., home on Friday. The cause of death was not released.
He was dealt from the Rangers to the Bruins in the middle of the 1965-66 season for ruffian Reggie Flemming. Playing mostly with Johnny Bucyk and Fred Stanfield, McKenzie blossomed, notching several 28- and 29-goal seasons before scoring a careerhigh 31 goals in 1970-71.
Despite his fearsome reputation, McKeznie was only 5-9, 175 pounds. The Boston lunchpail gang that also featured Derek Sanderson, Ken Hodge and Ted Green, won Stanley Cups in 1970 and 1972.
As the Bruins skated around the Madison Square Garden ice with their trophy after beating the Rangers in the decisive Game 6 of the 1971-72 Stanley Cup Finals, McKenzie took one last jab at the Rangers in what turned out to be his last NHL contest. The feisty McKenzie stood at mid-ice, raised one arm high to mimic the Statue of Liberty and with his other hand grabbed his throat in a choking manner to taunt the Rangers. — Robert Ng