After the ladder-leading Fever dispensed of the Lightning 74-65, the Vixens needed extra time to get past the tenacious Giants 66-63.
The Melbourne Vixens have set up a midweek top-of-the-ladder clash against the West Coast Fever after a thrilling 66-63 extra-time win over the Giants in Sydney.The Fever defeated the Lightning 74-65The Vixens' win kept them second on percentage behind the Fever, who earlier on Saturday defeated the struggling Lightning 74-65 on the Sunshine Coast.
She made eight of her first nine super shots as the Giants surged to a 60-57 lead with just over three minutes to go. The teams traded the first six goals of the extra-time period before Melbourne's Mwai Kumwenda completed a superb individual effort by scoring the last three of the match to finish with 50 goals from as many attempts.
With just one win separating third from eighth, the loss could be significant for the fourth-placed Giants, whose next two matches are away in Tasmania and Perth.Jamaican Jhaniele Fowler produced another prodigious and almost perfect shooting display to help the Fever consolidated top spot on the ladder.
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