Angel Reese had 18 points and 12 rebounds for her fourth double-double, Rhyne Howard 14 points and four 3-pointers, and the Atlanta Dream pulled away from the host Portland Fire for an 86-66 victory Friday.

Naz Hillmon had 14 points and Allisha Gray added 13 points with three 3-pointers for the Dream, who built a 54-39 lead midway through the third quarter and opened the fourth on a 15-4 run to put the game out of reach.

Sarah Ashlee Barker scored 14 points, Carla Leite had 11 points, and Megan Gustafson and Emily Engstler had 10 apiece for the expansion Fire, who had a three-game winning streak broken.

Howard made 4 of 7 treys and had six of the Dream’s 16 steals. Hillmon had five steals and Gray had three.

Atlanta scored 33 points off 28 Fire turnovers.

The Dream, who had a 29-23 rebounding advantage, have won three of four.

The Dream began rolling in the third quarter, when Howard made a 3-pointer and Reese hit two free throws to cap a 14-1 run for a 54-39 lead midway through the period.

Barker made two 3-pointers in the final two minutes of the third as the Fire closed the quarter on a 14-5 run to cut the deficit to 59-53, but the Dream scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter to regain control.

Resse had six points and five rebounds in a sluggish first quarter, when the Dream jumped to a 10-3 lead and led 16-14 entering the second. The teams were a combined 10 of 36 from the field.

Gustafson’s 3-pointer from the top of the key capped a 7-0 run to give the Fire their first lead at 21-18 with 6:15 left in the first.

Howard, who had three fouls in the first half, made two 3-pointers in the final 43 seconds of the second quarter to give the Dream a 38-31 halftime lead.

Gray had five points, including her second 3-pointer, as the Dream went on a 7-0 run to open a 47-38 lead with 6:44 left in the third quarter.

Fire forward Bridget Carleton did not play because of back soreness.

–Field Level Media

Paul Goldschmidt hit a three-run homer and Ryan McMahon and Ben Rice added solo blasts as the New York Yankees rolled to an easy 8-2 victory over the Athletics on Friday in West Sacramento, Calif.

Rice had three hits and two RBIs and Aaron Judge also drove in two runs as the Yankees stretched their winning streak to five games. New York has outscored its opponents 36-6 during that stretch.

Carlos Rodon (1-2) gave up one run and four hits over six innings for New York. He struck out three and walked two.

Nick Kurtz homered for the Athletics, who have been outscored 30-6 while losing four consecutive games. Rookie Henry Bolte had a career-best three hits while making his 15th major league appearance.

Athletics starter Luis Severino (2-6) gave up four unearned runs and three hits in the first inning before exiting due to right arm soreness. The former Yankees hurler was warming up for the second inning when he indicated there was a problem and was pulled after a brief talk with a trainer.

Severino dropped to 0-3 with a 9.88 ERA in four career starts against his former teammates.

The four-run first-inning uprising was set up by a throwing error by first baseman Kurtz.

After a balk moved Rice to second, Judge delivered an RBI single. Three batters later, Goldschmidt drilled a three-run homer.

Kurtz smacked a homer to center with one out in the bottom of the first to get the A’s on the board.

New York answered in the second as Jose Caballero hit a one-out double off Jose Suarez, moved to third on Trent Grisham’s single and scored on Rice’s base hit.

With two outs in the third, McMahon homered to right-center off Joel Kuhnel to make it 6-1.

New York added a run in the fourth as Grisham hit a one-out single, advanced to third on Rice’s double and scored on Judge’s infield out.

Rice blasted a homer to center off Scott Barlow on the second pitch of the seventh inning.

The Athletics added a ninth-inning tally on Zack Gelof’s one-out RBI single.

–Field Level Media

The Carolina Hurricanes, fresh off winning the Eastern Conference championship on Friday, are sizable favorites to beat the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final.

The Hurricanes head into the finals having won 12 of their 13 postseason games, the best start to a playoff run since the 1976 Montreal Canadiens captured the cup by going 12-1.

The only game Carolina lost was the opener of the Eastern Conference finals against Montreal, when the Hurricanes were playing for the first time in 12 days. Carolina swept the Ottawa Senators and the Philadelphia Flyers before downing Montreal in five games.

FanDuel lists the Hurricanes as a -162 favorite for the finals. DraftKings has Carolina at -155, and BetRivers puts the Hurricanes at -150.

The Golden Knights are +134 at FanDuel, +130 at DraftKings and +120 at BetRivers.

Vegas needed six games to get past the Utah Mammoth and the Anaheim Ducks before sweeping the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche.

For Game 1 on Tuesday in Raleigh, N.C., the Hurricanes are a -155 favorite at BetRivers and DraftKings, and a -152 favorite at FanDuel. All three books have the over-under for total goals at 5.5.

Despite his team being the underdog, Vegas winger Mitch Marner is posted by FanDuel as the favorite to win the Conn Smythe Trophy given to the most valuable player of the postseason. Marner is listed at +180.

Behind Marner on the board are four Carolina players: goalie Frederik Andersen (+250), winger Taylor Hall (+650), center Logan Stankoven (+900) and winger Jackson Blake (+1100). The next Golden Knights player listed is center Jack Eichel (+1900).

–Field Level Media