ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jessica Shepard and Arike Ogunbowale scored 15 points each and the Dallas Wings used a big run in the third quarter to cruise to an 83-63 win over the Connecticut Sun on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
After a slow start to the third quarter, when the Wings had more misses and turnovers than points, they followed a timeout with a 20-2 run to close the quarter and turn a nine-point lead into a 72-45 lead.<\/p>\n
The Sun went 3 of 15 from the field and scored just eight points.<\/p>\n
Azzi Fudd added 12 points for the Wings (19-11), who ended a two-game skid. Paige Bueckers scored just six points, the fewest in her two-year career. With reserves playing the fourth quarter Dallas still finished at 48% shooting, making 7 of 18 3-pointers. Fudd was 4 of 5 on 3s and Ogunbowale made 7 of 9 shots with five assists.<\/p>\n
Diamond Miller led the Sun (7-23) with a season-high 22 points. Kennedy Burke added 14. <\/p>\n
Connecticut finished a six-game road trip with five losses. They were without leading scorer Brittney Griner, who missed her fourth straight game with a left knee issue and has missed 14 games overall. The Sun are 1-13 without Griner. Another top scorer, Aneesah Morrow, was traded to Toronto on Friday.<\/p>\n
Without Griner, the Sun were outscored 46-24 in the paint. They shot 9 of 23 (39%) from 3-point range and 14 of 44 (32%) inside the arc.<\/p>\n
Dallas led 48-37 at the half. <\/p>\n
Three bus loads of fans from Houston attended the game. The Sun will relocate to Houston next season.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUp next<\/p>\n
Sun: Home against Phoenix on Friday.<\/p>\n
Fire: At Washington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jessica Shepard and Arike Ogunbowale scored 15 points each and the Dallas Wings used…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[25380,150,152,151,557],"class_list":["post-396031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-ap-sports","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396031","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=396031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}