Season 45 Featured Game No. 6...Seattle at Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City 81, Seattle 61
ASTOUNDING LARIATS COAST TO FOURTH STRAIGHT WIN
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma City Lariats easily dispensed with the visiting Seattle Stampede 81-61, getting a measure of revenge against the only team that has stained their otherwise spotless record. Seattle won by 22 in the first meeting of these teams, but that outcome was almost completely reversed, as Oklahoma City (now 5-1) held Seattle (now 3-3) to 45.1 percent shooting while registering 7 steals and sinking 19 of 20 free throws. Only a miss on his last free throw attempt by Anurag Dickshit kept the Lariats from breaking a 38-season record of 18 for 18 charity tosses by Chicago back in Season 7.

The Lariats have now won four straight games.

PLAYER OF THE GAME
Oklahoma City's ANURAG DICKSHIT, playing small forward this time out against Seattle, dominated All Star Pietro Destroyer of Seattle, scoring a game-high 26 points, pulling down 6 boards and adding 1 assist and 1 steal. Meanwhile, Destroyer fouled out, as did the man who replaced him, Reed Lemur. Dickshit, who nabbed his second POG of the season, was 8 of 15 from the floor (1 for 4 from deep) while taking advantage of all the fouls by making 9 of 10 from the line.

Other 20-plus GVP performances
-- The unselfish, defensive-minded Lariats center, Willie Carry McCoffee took just five shots, scored 9 points, pulled down 4 rebounds, dished out a game-high 5 assists, tied for game-high with 2 steals and blocked 1 shot in the win.

-- The other Oklahoma City forward, Goodbar "Muddy" Masterson scored 16 points and hauled down a game-high 7 rebounds while totally out-playing Seattle's Stu Gatz.

-- Seattle's rookie point guard AnDamian Wayne is not shy about launching treys. But although he was just 2 for 9 from deep, Wayne still led his team in scoring with 19 points, going 9 for 10 from the foul stripe. The 6-4 guard also pulled down 3 rebounds.

NEXT UP: A virtual game as Sacramento (1-4) travels to first-place Los Angeles (4-1), where The Big One, missing two top-notch starters to injury, will attempt to further submerge the defending champion River Dogs to new depths of despair. L.A. won the first meeting 63-62 with a rousing fourth quarter comeback that saw them erase a 12-point deficit. Norman Conquest of L.A. and Pap Smearz of the Lariats each scored 20 points and shared POG honors.

ONE MORE THING: Pietro Destroyer's 5 assists in the All Star Game moves him into third place all-time in that category behind Percy Faith (20) and Uncle Bob Masterson (19). He passed Bezow Bop-Bop, Mamadou Zongo, Bullet Bob Sixgun and Marcus Pettis in All Star Game assists.