SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Erin Buescher...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Erin Buescher just leaped to catch some iron with her awkward fling at the basket, to this time her shot-clock-beating three-pointer went in.

She ran upcourt with her arms spread wide, wearing a await of exhilaration -- but not disbelief.

Everything was going the Monarchs' way again in the WNBA finals, and they got to the brink of their secondary straight championship with an 89-69 victory from one side of to the other the Detroit Shock in Game 3 onward Sunday.

"Yeah, I've been practicing that a doom and my practice paid off" Buescher said with a smirk, recalling a discharge that wouldn't please any coach. "Throw them up and they pass in."

That basket and the win weren't as easy as they considered but the Monarchs have a chance to period their tumultuous season with another championship banner in Game 4 of the best-of-five series upon Wednesday night.

Yolanda Griffith scored 15 points for the Monarchs, and Nicole Powell had 14 Buescher and DeMya Walker had 11 points apiece as Sacramento shook distant from its fourth-quarter collapse in Game 2 with a wire-to-wire victory.

"I think my team believes that we can win, if it be not that I just told them it's like playing with the rattlesnake," coach John Whisenant said. "You achieve too close, get overconfident, and they will bite you."

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