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MINNEAPOLIS -- Seimone Augustus was a 13-year-old girl when she watched the Houston Comets win the first WNBA championship in 1997.The Comets would win the first four titles in the league, proving to basketball-loving girls across the country that there was a place for them to pursue their dreams. And Augustus couldnt get enough of them.Two decades later, Augustus and the Minnesota Lynx stand on the precipice of joining those trailblazing women. A victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in Game 5 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday night would give the Lynx their fourth title, tying them with the Comets for most in league history.Thats just mind-boggling to me, Augustus said. We grew up watching the Houston Comets and those wonderful women the kind of set the precedent for what WNBA basketball is all about. Theyve motivated and inspired us. Now we could be the new Houston Comets of this era if we do what we need to do.They know it will not be easy. Through the first four games of the series, the Sparks and Lynx have pushed each other as far as they can go, which is exactly what the league hoped would happen when it changed the playoff format to seed teams based on record and not geography. Los Angeles won Game 1 in Minnesota and Game 3 back home. The Lynx have responded to each loss with a victory of their own to find themselves right back where they were a year ago -- needing a win in Game 5 at Target Center to bring home a title.Last year the Lynx dispatched the Indiana Fever in front of 17,000 fans, then partied all night long at Princes house to celebrate title No. 3. Another raucous crowd is expected this time around in what would be the crowning achievement for the leagues model franchise, first back-to-back championships in the league since the Sparks repeated in 2002.You couldnt ask for anything more, said Lynx star Maya Moore, who scored 31 points in Game 4 to keep Minnesota alive. Its been definitely a dramatic series and one that will go down as one of the best, I think.The Lynx have been here five times in the last six years, but this has been their most difficult finals test. League MVP Nneka Oqwumike, Candace Parker and Kristi Toliver present a star-studded trio to rival Minnesotas, and they have been every bit their equal through four games.The Sparks are chasing ghosts of their own. A victory Thursday night would give them their first championship since Lisa Leslie led them to their second in a row in 2002, and that may have played into their defeat on Sunday. They were so eager to finish the series on their home floor that coach Brian Agler said they have turned their focus in the wrong direction, and it cost them.I think everyone out there was playing to win a championship and not to beat the team we were playing, Ogwumike said. I told coach yesterday in the airport thats exactly how I felt when he put it in that perspective. 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The Canadiens Get: LW Thomas Vanek and a conditional fifth-round pick. FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Dusan Perovic hit 5 of 9 from 3-point range, finished with 21 points and seven rebounds and Binghamton rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit to beat Long Beach State 72-64 on Thursday night.J.C. Show also had 21 points and Yosef Yacob hit 3-of-3 3-pointers and scored 15 for Binghamton (4-3).Perovic hit two 3s during a 17-5 run that gave Binghamton a 49-47 lead -- its first since midway through the first half -- with 6:48 to play. After LBSU briefly regained the lead, Yacob scored five points during an 11-4 run to make iit 64-57 with 1:34 left and the Bearcats held on from there.ddddddddddddEvan Payne led LBSU (1-6) with 14 points. The 49ers made 3-of-16 (18.8 percent) 3-pointers, 9-of-16 (56.3) free throws and have lost six in row.Binghamton shot just 22 percent and scored 17 points in the first half but shot 52 percent from the field, hit 7-of-14 3-pointers and scored 55 points in the second -- its most points in a half this season. ' ' '