Liberty outlasts Sun in 3 OTs in preseason game

Someone forgot to tell the Liberty and Connecticut Sun that yesterday's matinee at Madison Square Garden was a preseason game.

Or at least that's how it seemed as it took 2 hours, 52 minutes for the Liberty to beat the Sun, 89-84, in triple overtime. It marked only the second time in WNBA history that a preseason game has gone three overtimes. Phoenix and Detroit also played a triple-overtime preseason game May 27, 2000.

Cappie Pondexter, playing her first game in a Liberty uniform, and Kalana Greene both scored 14 points.

Pondexter, playing with five fouls, also made a huge defensive play with 22.8 seconds left in the second overtime when she blocked a layup by Kara Lawson that would have given the Sun a four-point lead. She then fed the ball to former Rutgers teammate Essence Carson, who made the layup that tied the game at 81 and sent it into the third overtime.

Said Liberty coach Anne Donovan: "We said we wanted to score in the 80s this year. That was our goal. It just took us three overtimes to get there."