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The London Lightning have to get healthy, but they also have to get a lot better.

The first-place Bolts (12-6) came agonizing close to grinding out a win over the last-place Kitchener-Waterloo Titans (5-9) Monday afternoon, but fell 108-107 in double overtime for their third straight loss in front of a Family Day crowd of 7,194 at Budweiser Gardens.

Xavier Moon and Maurice Bolden didn’t dress Sunday and Mareik Isom and Omar Strong played limited minutes, as a flu-like bug works its way through the team. The Lightning were down to six players early in the second overtime, with Garrett Williamson, Randy Phillips and Marcus Capers fouling out.

“I don’t believe in moral victories, but with the players we had available, I’m proud of how our guys fought, taking that game to double overtime,” Lightning coach Doug Plumb said.

“At the start of the year, we were winning games that we easily could have lost and now we are losing games that we very easily could have won,” Plumb said. “So, you are never as good as you think you are, … but we have to figure it out.”

The Lightning were up 107-106 with 18.2 seconds left in the second overtime, but lost possession on a five-second inbound violation and Ed Horton made a layup for the Titans with 10 second left and the Bolts couldn’t answer.

Canadian guard Marvin Binney hit a three-pointer with two seconds on the clock to send the game to double overtime.

Phillips led the Bolts with 28 points and 12 rebounds. New Canadian signing Tyrell Green had 19 points, Binney scored 16, Williamson had 12 and AJ Gaines scored 11.