{"id":55989,"date":"2025-08-09T02:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55989\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T02:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:58:07","slug":"ionescu-meesseman-lead-liberty-over-wings-for-third-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55989\/","title":{"rendered":"Ionescu, Meesseman lead Liberty over Wings for third straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Sabrina Ionescu scored 16 points, Emma Meesseman had 14 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and three steals, and 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> beat 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> 88-77 on Friday night for their third straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Leonie Fiebich and Jonquel Jones also scored 14 points apiece for New York (20-10). Natasha Cloud and Marine Johannes each added 10.<\/p>\n<p>Arike Ogunbowale scored 17 points and Maddy Siegrist added 15 off the bench for Dallas (8-23), which has lost four straight games. Myisha Hines-Allen had 12 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas was without rookie Paige Bueckers\u00a0due to a back injury that required treatment when the teams met Tuesday in New York. Breanna Stewart, Kennedy Burke and Nyara Sabally did not play for the Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Meesseman had 14 points, six rebounds and four assists in the first half to help New York build a 50-34 lead. The Liberty made 51.5 per cent of their shots, including 5-of-12 from three-point range, and 11-of-11 free throws in the half. The Wings were held to 33.3 per cent shooting with nine turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>New York began the fourth quarter on a 13-1 run, capped by a three-pointer by Fiebich, to take control with a 77-58 lead. The Wings didn&#8217;t make their first field goal of the fourth until the 5:50 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Sabrina Ionescu scored 16 points, Emma Meesseman had 14 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-55989","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\/55989","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=55989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}