{"id":24211,"date":"2014-10-04T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/u-s-women-beat-australia-to-reach-worlds-final\/"},"modified":"2014-10-04T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T16:54:00","slug":"u-s-women-beat-australia-to-reach-worlds-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/u-s-women-beat-australia-to-reach-worlds-final\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. women beat Australia to reach worlds final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Turkey (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tina Charles had 18 points and nine rebounds to lead the United States past Australia, 82-70, on Saturday in the semifinals of the women&#8217;s world championship.<\/p>\n<p>Maya Moore added 16 points for the Americans, who will face Spain in the gold- medal game Sunday. Spain took down host Turkey by a 66-56 margin to secure its first-ever trip to the championship game.<\/p>\n<p>Holding a 24-22 lead with less than six minutes left in the first half, the United States went on a 10-1 run. Charles scored six points during the surge to help Team USA take a 34-23 edge. They went into the half up 42-30.<\/p>\n<p>Australia stayed within striking distance in the third quarter and trailed 61-52 heading to the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Phillips started the final period with a 3-pointer to make it a six-point contest. But the Americans responded with a 15-2 run to put the game away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Turkey (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tina Charles had 18 points and nine rebounds to lead the United States past Australia, 82-70, on Saturday in the semifinals of the women&#8217;s world championship. Maya Moore added 16 points for the Americans, who will face Spain in the gold- medal game Sunday. Spain took down host Turkey by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}