By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Top draft pick Azzi Fudd scored a season-high 12 points off the bench and Paige Bueckers added 18 points and seven assists as the Dallas Wings beat the Washington Mystics 92-69 on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Arike Ogunbowale scored 16 points and Jessica Shepard added 12 points, 16 rebounds and six assists for Dallas (2-2), which won its first home game in three attempts this season. The Wings scored 23 points off 18 turnovers and led by as many as 25 points.<\/p>\n
Shepard matched the league\u2019s single-game high for rebounds this season. Bueckers made 4 of 5 3-pointers, while nine of her teammates combined to go 7 of 19.<\/p>\n
Shakira Austin led Washington (2-2) with 12 points and Lauren Betts scored 11 off the bench. Kiki Iriafen had nine points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Maddy Siegrist finished with 10 points off the bench for the Wings, who had 20-plus assists for the third time in four games.<\/p>\n
FIRE 83, SUN 82<\/p>\n
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Sarah Ashlee Barker and Bridget Carleton each scored 18 points, Sug Sutton scored a go-ahead basket with 22.6 seconds left, and Portland beat Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Sutton drove into the lane and sank a floater for an 81-79 lead. Connecticut had two chances on its next possession before Carleton secured the rebound and was fouled. Carleton made two free throws with 9.7 left for a four-point lead.<\/p>\n
Connecticut rookie Charlisse Leger-Walker made a 3-pointer with 1.9 left and Portland was called for an offensive foul to give the Sun another chance. But Aneesah Morrow\u2019s heave from halfcourt was short at the buzzer.<\/p>\n
Sutton finished with 12 points and Emily Engstler added 15 for Portland (2-2). Nyadiew Puoch scored 10.<\/p>\n
Brittney Griner led Connecticut (0-5) with 16 points, one shy of reaching 6,000 for her career. Morrow, Hailey Van Lith and Aaliyah Edwards each added 12 and Leger-Walker scored 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Top draft pick Azzi Fudd scored a season-high 12 points off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,154,20577,14422],"class_list":["post-300785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-sports","tag-uconn-womens-basketball","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}