Two more games from yesterday's basketball blitz:

1. DC won a messy, back-and-forth match against Charlotte. The home win clinches the Mystics' playoff bid. D-Nasty scored 26. (McCarville did not play.)

The game didn't have much offensive flow, to say the least. It did feature Beard's first-ever ejection, a fan who got kicked out afterwards, an impromptu poster razzing a referee (which the team-- risking a fine-- put up on the Jumbotron), and Nakia Sanford's enthusiastic apology.

"I'm sorry it was so ugly," Sanford told fans afterwards. "But we won and now we're going to the playoffs."

2. The Storm lost a heartbreaker at home. Down three, with the last shot, Betty Lennox shot a two: either she lost her head, or she hoped for the foul. "I thought I got fouled," Lennox said. "We probably should have yelled out," Lauren Jackson admitted.

Injuries notwithstanding, LJ shone, with 27 points in 20 minutes-- but Lisa Leslie dropped 31. Jackson's late turnover marred a near-perfect, all-out effort from the much-injured Australian.

Pelton: "I won't be surprised if Lauren Jackson passes out, exhausted, at the conclusion of this game. She... used every ounce of her energy in the fourth quarter trying to spur the Storm to victory."