SPARKS TO FACE RESILIENT COMETS IN WEST FINALS.Byline: Pamela Lewis Staff Writer The pain of losing their teammate is very much present. It's been only a week since Kim Perrot Kim Perrot (January 18, 1967 — August 19, 1999), was an American basketball player. She played in the WNBA for the Houston Comets. A guard who attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Perrot was the regular died and two days since her funeral. So for now, the Houston Comets The Houston Comets are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas. Formed in 1997, the team is one of the original WNBA teams and after winning four championships in the first four years of the league's existence, the Comets are also the first dynasty of are taking it one day at a time One Day at a Time is a long-running American situation comedy that portrayed a divorced mother, played by Bonnie Franklin, her two teenage daughters (Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli) and their building superintendent (Pat Harrington, Jr.). , as the two-time defending WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego champions prepare to face the Sparks in the best-of-three Western Conference finals beginning today at 5:30 p.m. at the Forum. The series moves to Houston's Compac Center on Sunday, and if necessary, Monday. Facing the reigning champs, who lost only six of their 32 regular-season games, the Sparks know they can't afford a sluggish start like they had Tuesday against the Sacramento Monarchs The Sacramento Monarchs is a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Sacramento, California. The team is one of the WNBA's eight original franchises and was noted early on for standout players Ticha Penicheiro, Ruthie Bolton and Yolanda Griffith. . They trailed by 11 at halftime but were able to pull out a 71-58 victory in that first-round single elimination game behind Lisa Leslie's 22 points. But it came only after Sparks coach Orlando Woolridge Orlando Vernada Woolridge (born December 16 1959 in Bernice, Louisiana) is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. Woolridge played collegiate basketball at the University of Notre Dame. snapped them out of their funk with a halftime tirade. The Sparks are 2-2 against the Comets and the only team to win two games against them. But two-time Most Valuable Player Cynthia Cooper There are two different public figures with the name Cynthia Cooper:
``I feel better,'' said Cooper, the WNBA scoring leader who returned to the court the following night and had 27 points in the Comets' 74-65 victory over Utah in the final regular-season game. `` . . . You don't cope, I lost my mother six months ago, I lost my best friend . . . How do you cope?'' If anything, the Comets are a stronger team because of Perrot's positive spirit. ``We've been through a lot this year and this is adding to what we've gone through all season long,'' said the Comets' Sheryl Swoopes, who is separated from her husband. ``I think as a team we've done very well sticking together. It shouldn't be anything different.'' WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Today Houston at Sparks, 5:30 p.m. Sunday Sparks at Houston, 1 p.m. Monday x-Sparks at Houston, 7 p.m. x- if necessary CAPTION(S): Photo, box PHOTO Lisa Leslie, waving to the crowd Tuesday, is a big reason the Sparks are in the West finals. Michael Caulfield/Associated Press Box: Western Conference Finals (see text) |
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