{"id":942596,"date":"2026-07-18T04:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942596\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T04:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:36:18","slug":"short-handed-savannah-steel-fall-to-league-leading-jacksonville-waves-drop-sixth-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942596\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-handed Savannah Steel fall to league-leading Jacksonville Waves, drop sixth straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short-handed Savannah Steel fall to league-leading Jacksonville Waves, drop sixth straight<\/p>\n

Playing with just eight players, the Savannah Steel battled the league-leading Jacksonville Waves before falling 83-76 Friday night.<\/p>\n

\"Amy<\/a>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite dressing just eight players, the Savannah Steel battled the league-leading Jacksonville Waves until the final minute before falling 83-76 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The loss was Savannah’s sixth straight, while Jacksonville used a strong second half and its depth to improve its hold atop the UPSHOT League standings.<\/p>\n

The Steel led for much of the first half behind a standout performance from guard Lasha Petree. Savannah opened the game with an 11-0 run, and Petree scored nine first-quarter points as the Steel took a 21-20 lead after one quarter.<\/p>\n

Savannah continued to dictate the tempo in the second quarter, forcing Jacksonville into several turnovers while building a five-point advantage. Alisia Jenkins helped the Steel maintain the lead by knocking down all eight of her free throw attempts in the first half, giving Savannah a 40-38 halftime advantage.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville turned the game in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

The Waves took control behind back-to-back 3-pointers from Adut Bulgak and tightened up defensively, limiting Savannah’s offensive opportunities while taking a 65-57 lead into the fourth.<\/p>\n

The Steel refused to go away.<\/p>\n

Ta’Mia Scott, making her Savannah debut after being acquired in a trade from the Greensboro Groove, knocked down a pair of 3-pointers to keep the Steel within striking distance. Savannah trimmed the deficit to four points in the closing minutes after Petree came up with a steal and converted a layup, but Jacksonville answered at the free-throw line to seal the victory.<\/p>\n

Petree led the Steel with a strong all-around performance, while Jenkins added key scoring from the free-throw line. Scott provided an immediate spark in her first game with the team.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville was paced by Bulgak, whose third-quarter scoring helped swing the momentum, while the Waves’ rebounding and deeper rotation proved to be the difference over the final 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Savannah (6-game losing streak) will get another shot at the league leaders on Sunday when the two teams meet again in Jacksonville. Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Short-handed Savannah Steel fall to league-leading Jacksonville Waves, drop sixth straight Playing with just eight players, the Savannah…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":942597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[379589,379590,5229,1339,374000,379591,149278,3188,723,7310,7327,357519,142272,379592,379593,337187,337189,379594,379595,1351,379596,379597,379598,149283,337184,379599,379600,67,586,132,5230,142271,68,2969,3357],"class_list":["post-942596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-adut-bulgak","tag-alisia-jenkins","tag-america","tag-basketball","tag-coastal-georgia-sports","tag-coretta-brown","tag-enmarket-arena","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-sports","tag-jacksonville-waves","tag-jessica-bogia","tag-khayla-pointer","tag-lasha-petree","tag-lauryn-taylor","tag-lowcountry-sports","tag-olivia-cochran","tag-professional-basketball","tag-que-morrison","tag-reniya-davis","tag-savannah-ga","tag-savannah-sports","tag-savannah-steel","tag-tamia-scott","tag-toccara-ross","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-upshot-league","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-womens-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942596","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=942596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}