{"id":683478,"date":"2026-05-21T05:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683478\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:11:08","slug":"shepards-triple-double-helps-wings-rally-from-11-point-deficit-to-beat-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683478\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepard&#8217;s triple-double helps Wings rally from 11-point deficit to beat Sky\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Jessica Shepard had her second career triple-double and the first in the WNBA this season, Arike Ogunbowale scored 11 of her 23 points in the fourth quarter, 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Wings<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/chicago-sky\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"chicago-sky\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Sky<\/a> 99-89 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard tied her season high with 18 points on 6-for-7 shooting, added a career-best 12 assists and grabbed 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Cloud hit two free throws that cut Chicago\u2019s deficit to three points with 2:32 left, but Ogunbowale answered with a 3-pointer 11 seconds later, then hit another with 1:42 remaining that made it 93-84.<\/p>\n<p>Paige Bueckers scored 24 points for the Wings (3-2). Rookie Azzi Fudd tied her career high with 12 points. The No. 1 overall pick also scored 12 in a\u00a092-69\u00a0win Monday against Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Kamilla Cardoso had a season-high 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting and 11 rebounds \u2014 her second consecutive double-double and third this season \u2014 for the Sky (3-2). Cloud had 21 points and eight rebounds, Skylar Diggins scored 15 and Gabriela Jaquez added 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard had eight points, six rebounds and five assists in the third quarter as the Wings outscored Chicago 34-26. It was Dallas&#8217; highest-scoring quarter this season and led to a 71-64 advantage. The Wings made 11 of 16 (68.8%) from the field, 3 of 5 from behind the arc, and hit 9 of 11 from the free-throw line in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Rickea Jackson, Chicago&#8217;s leading scorer at 18.0 points per game, missed her first game following a season-ending ACL injury sustained Sunday in the Sky&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sky-lynx-score-7e83fedddebac7b8d9e1f82caaf480c2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">86-79<\/a>\u00a0win over Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings snapped a six-game skid against Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Banham converted a four-point play that capped a 10-0 run and gave the Sky an 11-point lead late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Wings: Visit Atlanta on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sky: Host Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Jessica Shepard had her second career triple-double and the first in the WNBA this season, Arike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-683478","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\/683478","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=683478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}