{"id":31060,"date":"2025-07-29T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31060\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:10:08","slug":"ogunbowale-bueckers-score-20-apiece-as-wings-hang-on-to-defeat-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31060\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogunbowale, Bueckers score 20 apiece as Wings hang on to defeat Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Arike Ogunbowale had 20 points and 14 assists, Paige Bueckers scored 20 points and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/dallas-wings\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"dallas-wings\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Wings<\/a> hung on to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/new-york-liberty\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-liberty\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Liberty<\/a> 92-82 on Monday night despite making only one field goal in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas led 85-62 through three quarters but a three-pointer from Aziaha James with about seven minutes remaining was the Wings&#8217; only basket of the final period.<\/p>\n<p>New York outscored Dallas 20-3 over the first eight minutes, capped by Jonquel Jones&#8217; three-pointer that made it 88-82.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers \u2014 with former UConn teammate\u00a0Azzi Fudd in attendance wearing an \u201cI Heart PB\u201d T-shirt\u2014 finally scored for Dallas, making two free throws with 1:06 remaining. After Jones missed a jumper, DiJonai Carrington made two free throws for a 92-82 lead with 54 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings led 31-19 after the first quarter and extended their lead to 63-36 at halftime, when Ogunbowale became the first player in WNBA history to have at least 15 points and 10 assists in one half.<\/p>\n<p>Jones had 18 points for New York (17-8), which was playing\u00a0without Breanna Stewart because of a right leg injury\u00a0and lost its second straight. Sabrina Ionescu scored 17.<\/p>\n<p>Luisa Geiselsoder had 14 points for Dallas (8-19).<\/p>\n<p>New York: Visits Minnesota on Wednesday in a matchup of the two conference leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas: Hosts Atlanta on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Arike Ogunbowale had 20 points and 14 assists, Paige Bueckers scored 20 points and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-31060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}