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Sue Bird made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2.8 seconds left Sunday and the Seattle Storm advanced to the WNBA finals with a 91-88 victory over the defending champion Phoenix Mercury, closing the game with a 15-0 run. A nearly capacity crowd of 15,000 -- including 22 members of the Turkish national soccer team sitting courtside -- watched the home team make shoot 35 of 55 from the field in the ...

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PCHS hopes to answer some questions in the pool

Dave Justi hopes to learn a lot today about his Pekin High School girls swimming and diving team. “I really don’t have a clue about what kind of team we have because we haven’t competed yet,” Justi said before the Lady Dragons headed to Freeport for a meet against the Pretzels and Rock Island.