It’s days like these when I feel bad for the poor soul tasked with guarding Sylvia Fowles.

The Lynx beat the Indiana Fever 89-65 in wire-to-wire fashion Wednesday afternoon. Minnesota led the entire game, outscored the Fever in every quarter, and dominated them on both sides of the ball. Fowles led the way.

A regular season franchise-high 17,933 in attendance (many were children attending from camps) witnessed perhaps Fowles’ best performance of the season. She finished with 30 points on 13-of-15 shooting, 16 rebounds and three blocks. With her second block, she moved up to fourth on the WNBA’s all-time blocked shots list.

“Today would be a great day to purchase a Sylvia Fowles jersey,” said coach Cheryl Reeve after the game. “Sylvia Fowles was exceptional. When she plays like that it’s generally hard to beat us.”

“It is a gift of Sylvia Fowles that she has this physical way about her so no matter what you do she has athleticism and she has strength. You’re not going to keep her from getting where the defense wants her to be to prevent the catch,” Reeve continued. “Her poise was just tremendous, her patience.” 

After struggling for a few games, a game like this one was certainly cathartic for Fowles.

“It felt good,” Fowles said. “Just for ourselves, we all got each other’s back… but at the end of the day this is what we have, and just to lift our spirits was the most important part.”

Also excellent were Seimone Augustus and new addition Erlana Larkins. Augustus scored 13 on 5-of-7 shooting and hit all three of her three-point attempts. She added four assists and two rebounds. Larkins didn’t score the ball as much, finishing with only four points, but she showed an excellent understanding of the Lynx’s game plan and a real knack for moving the ball. Larkins finished with a career-high eight assists, playing most of her minutes at the power forward position to backing up Rebekkah Brunson, who struggled to find her rhythm in her first game back from injury.

“What I have noticed about Erlana from the time she stepped on the court with our team is she only knows one way,” said Reeve. “Our team played against her, and I just remember how difficult she was to play against, but you don’t know exactly what that means until you’re in the trenches with a player, and so to see what makes her hard to play against—her motor is really high, her will is really really high.”

All in all, today’s game was a great way to get back in the win column heading into a tough road matchup with the Diana Taurasi and the Mercury on Saturday. We’ll keep you posted.