United States vs. Australia final score: Opals win 70-67 despite missing Cambage

Photo by Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images Washington Mystics guard Leilani Mitchell scored a key bucket in the fourth quarter to give the Australian Opals a lead which they ultimately didn’t relinquish.The USA Basketball women’s national team lost to Australia, 70-67 on Friday afternoon in a friendly match.

If you watched just the first half of the game, you may have felt very confident about a Team USA victory. The Opals were without the recently-departed Liz Cambage, and were likely primed for a loss. That said, Australia was draining a good number of threes to keep the score tied at 19 in the first. Team USA countered with a smaller lineup in the second quarter to build a 41-28 lead at…