{"id":380,"date":"2025-07-16T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:16:45","slug":"caitlin-clark-struggles-in-front-of-sold-out-boston-garden-crowd-but-fever-beat-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark struggles in front of sold-out Boston Garden crowd but Fever beat Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark went to the bench with an apparent leg injury in the final minute of the Indiana Fever\u2019s 85-77 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark went to the bench with an apparent leg injury in the final minute of the Indiana Fever\u2019s 85-77 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

Natasha Howard scored 18 points with 13 rebounds in front of a sold-out crowd of 19,156 at the home of the Boston Celtics and Bruins.<\/p>\n

Clark struggled during the game, scoring 14 points on 4 for 14 shooting, and walked off the court at the end crying and clutching her right leg. Clark missed five games recently<\/a> and five others earlier in the season with left leg injuries.<\/p>\n

Tina Charles scored 21 points with 11 rebounds for the Sun, who fell to 3-19 for the season \u2014 the worst record in the WNBA.<\/p>\n

SPARKS 99, MYSTICS 80<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Dearica Hamby scored 26 points, Rickea Jackson had 22 and Los Angeles used a big first-half run to beat Washington.<\/p>\n

Shakira Austin had 16 points and eight rebounds for Washington. Sug Sutton added 14 points and Aaliyah Edwards scored 13.<\/p>\n

The Sparks closed the first half on a 17-2 run over the final four minutes to reach their most points scored in any half this season at 59. Hamby scored 18 in the first half<\/a>, including a 3-pointer just before the buzzer for a 25-point lead. <\/p>\n

The Mystics, who were held to 12 points in the second quarter, scored 12 points in the opening four minutes of the third. But the Sparks held onto their double-digit lead for the entire second half. <\/p>\n

Los Angeles (8-14) won consecutive games for the first time this season to match its win total from last season.<\/p>\n

Washington (11-11) had won three in a row.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark went to the bench with an apparent leg injury in the final minute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-380","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\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}