The Minnesota Lynx... Bringin' It Home.

Roar for Four!

LOS ANGELES -- Maya Moore scored 31 points and Minnesota's defense held Nneka Ogwumike and Candace Parker in check to help the Lynx beat the Los Angeles Sparks 85-79 on Sunday night and force a decisive fifth game in the WNBA Finals.

Lindsay Whalen added 13 points, Seimone Augustus had 12 and Sylvia Fowles had 10 points and 13 rebounds in tying the series 2-2 and sending it back to Minneapolis, where the Lynx will try to win their record-tying fourth championship on Thursday.

"Great series, Game 5 in Minneapolis, we're excited," Moore said.

Me too.

"We have created a tough place to play at Target Center. I'm expecting 15,000-plus fans for Game 5," Lynx guard Seimone Augustus said. "They're going to bring the energy and we're going to bring the pain."

The teams have three days until Game 5, the longest rest of the Finals. The Lynx head home on Monday, while the Sparks depart on Tuesday.
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"We didn't lack desire to win or a will. We competed hard enough," Sparks coach Brian Agler said.

"I don't know if we're going to see the results on Thursday, but this game is really going to help us because it's the first time this team has been in this kind of environment," Agler said.

"Of course we're playing against a great opponent that's been there several times, and you could tell the difference in both teams. Going through this, I could just sort of tell from our facial expressions in the locker room, this was new for them."