{"id":930929,"date":"2026-07-13T00:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/930929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:54:22","slug":"savannah-steel-falter-late-in-game-3-loss-to-jacksonville-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/930929\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Steel falter late in Game 3 loss to Jacksonville Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savannah Steel falter late in Game 3 loss to Jacksonville Waves<\/p>\n

\"Corey<\/a>SAVANNAH, Ga. \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Savannah Steel squandered a late lead Sunday and fell 69-57 to the Jacksonville Waves at Enmarket Arena, giving Jacksonville a 3-0 lead in the best-of-five series.<\/p>\n

Savannah led 45-42 entering the fourth quarter after a strong defensive effort, including a second quarter in which it held Jacksonville to nine points for a 30-23 halftime advantage. But the Waves took control in the final 10 minutes, outscoring the Steel 27-12.<\/p>\n

The Steel struggled offensively, shooting 38.1% from the field and 1 for 20 from 3-point range. Savannah also committed 22 turnovers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think our execution was good, but we just missed shots,\u201d guard Lasha Petree said. \u201cA lot of the fourth-quarter points we got were from good looks and good shots, but we missed them, and then they pushed in transition, and that\u2019s where they killed us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Savannah forced 14 steals, including five by Petree, and kept Jacksonville below its season scoring average through three quarters. But the Steel could not maintain that defensive pressure late.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a combination of us not getting stops,\u201d interim coach Tocarra Ross said. \u201cBasketball is a game of runs … we gotta be able to convert at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ross is leading the team while head coach Coretta Brown attends to a private family matter. She said injuries and roster changes have required the Steel to adjust offensively on the fly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey got new sets, so they got to learn what those angles look like … we\u2019re just trying to be patient with each other,\u201d Ross said.<\/p>\n

Despite the deficit, Savannah said it is focused on improving.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, we\u2019re just sticking together,\u201d Cochran said. \u201cWe\u2019re not looking at the game as a loss. It\u2019s just a learning lesson. We win together; we lose together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Steel will travel to Jacksonville for the remaining games in the series. Savannah returns to action Friday, July 17, with tipoff set for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savannah Steel falter late in Game 3 loss to Jacksonville Waves SAVANNAH, Ga. \u2014 The Savannah Steel squandered…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":930930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,6174,29914,24807,67,586,132,5230,142271,68,2969,39399,3357],"class_list":["post-930929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-professional","tag-savannah","tag-steel","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-upshot-league","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-waves","tag-womens-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116909944566923865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}