Minneapolis, MN (AHN) - The Indiana Fever were led to a routine 89-75 win over the young Minnesota Lynx Wednesday night by all-star forward Tamika Catchings, who scored 21 points.

Indiana improved to 3-0 for the third consecutive season.

"We tried to come out of the locker room in the second half with a mind-set that we don't want to let a team get back in the game, and I thought we did that," Fever coach Brian Winters said. "We pushed the lead back out to seven or eight, and then we slowly pushed away."

Rookie Lindsey Harding had a season-high 17 points for the Lynx.

With five rookies on their roster, the Lynx, 0-5, will have plenty of time to learn from their youthful mistakes.

"We are going through growing pains right now," first-year head coach Don Zierden said. "That is something that the coaching staff has to live with and keep working through."

A 6-0 run by Indiana with less than 15 seconds remaining in the first half, put the Fever up by three 40-37, at the break.

Indian started the second half exactly the way it ended the first half - with a 6-0 run. The deflated Lynx weren't a factor for the remainder of the game.

"We're going into halftime up by three, and two mental errors, two turnovers turn into a 3-point lead for them," said Lynx guard Seimone Augustus. "They came out in the second half and executed and we never countered that."