{"id":65760,"date":"2025-08-13T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/65760\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T05:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:12:10","slug":"fiebich-jones-meesseman-lead-liberty-to-highest-point-total-of-season-in-win-over-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/65760\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiebich, Jones, Meesseman lead Liberty to highest point total of season in win over Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES  \u2014 Emma Meesseman scored a season-high 24 points, Jonquel Jones had 21 points and 11 rebounds, 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=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Liberty<\/a> scored a season high in points in a 105-97 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/los-angeles-sparks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-sparks\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Brondello won her 100th game as coach of the Liberty, tying Richie Adubato for the most in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Cloud made back-to-back layups to give New York a 96-85 lead \u2014 tied for the largest advantage of the game. Sabrina Ionescu added a layup with 1:22 remaining and, after a missed three-pointer by Los Angeles, Cloud made another basket in the lane for a 102-91 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Leonie Fiebich added 20 points, Ionescu had 14 points and six assists, and Cloud scored 11 for New York (21-11), which was coming off an 83-71 loss to Minnesota on Sunday. Breanna Stewart (knee), Isabelle Harrison (concussion) and Nyara Sabally (knee) did not play.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Plum scored 26 points for Los Angeles (15-17), which played its fifth game in eight days. Dearica Hamby had 21 points, eight rebounds and four steals. Azura Stevens scored 17 and Rickea Jackson had 16. Cameron Brink did not play in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty made 14 three-pointers \u2014 the most by a Los Angeles opponent this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Emma Meesseman scored a season-high 24 points, Jonquel Jones had 21 points and 11 rebounds,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-65760","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\/65760","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=65760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}