December 16, 2017
Another full round of games was played on Saturday. The first shock of the day was Zhejiang’s 73-61 win at Beijing behind Wang Haimei and Natasha Howard. Morgan Tuck had her usual solid game for Shaanxi, but they had nobody to go to once minutes restrictions kicked in as Bayi eased to a 90-66 win. Candace Parker lifted surging Xinjiang past Jiangsu 85-78, pushing them into first place via the tiebreaker. Shandong got big contributions from Lynetta Kizer before minutes restrictions and Li Meng and Jin Jiabao did not manage to get Shenyang to make a dent in the lead, losing 95-86. Breanna Stewart and Shanghai made quick work of Sichuan 97-64. Elizabeth Williams and Liaoning appear to have found their footing again, beating Li Yueru and Guangdong 80-74. Shanxi had a chance to join the tie at the top of the standings and got a great game from Jonquel Jones, but the duo of Aneika Henry and Zhang Jiahe got Heilongjiang the 82-81 win.
Beijing vs. Zhejiang 61-73 BJ Shao 14 Zhang 13 Fowles 11/16r Gao 11/6r ZJ Wang 23/6a Howard 20/16r Zhang 12 Huang 10
Shaanxi vs. Bayi 66-90 SN Tuck 25/6r Wu 13/8r Peng 12 81 Lu 18/11r Sun 18 Pan 14 Wang 12
Jiangsu vs. Xinjiang 78-85 JS Xu 19/6r Chen 18 Sun 15 Jin 11/7r XJ Parker 31/15r Dilana 13/8r Wang 12 Huang 11 Qiu 10/10r
Shenyang vs. Shandong 86-95 SY Li 37 Jin 20 SD Kizer 38 Ji 18/8a Yang 10/8r
Shanghai vs. Sichuan 97-64 SH Stewart 24/15r Xun 14 Zhang 14 Huang 11 SC Leuchanka 16/11r Yang 14 Wu 13
Liaoning vs. Guangdong 80-74 LN Williams 21 Fu 13 Liang 11 Hu 10 Wang 10 GD Li 25/16r Zhang 15/7r Huang 10
Heilongjiang vs. Shanxi 82-81 HL Henry 25/16r Zhang 20 Ji 12 Cao 11 SX Jones 45/13r Wu 15
Standings:
- Xinjiang 10-4
- Beijing 10-4
- Shanghai 10-4
- Shanxi 9-5
- Heilongjiang 8-6
- Guangdong 8-6
- Jiangsu 7-7
- Liaoning 7-7
- Shandong 7-7
- Bayi 7-7
- Zhejiang 5-9
- Shenyang 5-9
- Sichuan 4-10
- Shaanxi 1-13