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When it got to crunch time, the Sky didn't fall.

Two free throws by Elaine Powell with 1.7 seconds to play lifted the Sky to a 68-67 WNBA exhibition victory Friday night over the Seattle Storm before a UIC Pavilion crowd of 3,622 that included Bulls guard Ben Gordon.

"We just tried to run our normal out-of-bounds play," said forward Brooke Wyckoff, who led the Sky with 12 points on four 3-pointers. "We wanted to get the ball inside to Candice (Dupree), but they collapsed on her and E.P. got the foul. It wasn't exactly what we drew up."

"The result was there, if not the play," Sky head coach Dave Cowens said. "They bailed us out. But we bailed them out a few times, too."

A 3-pointer by Wyckoff gave the Sky a 66-60 lead with 1:46 to play. But the Storm's Wendy Palmer, who finished with 10 points, scored seven in a row, capped by a three-point play with 9.5 seconds remaining, for a 67-66 Seattle lead.

After a Seattle foul, the Sky inbounded with 7.1 seconds to play.

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