{"id":396080,"date":"2026-08-03T02:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396080\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:57:25","slug":"dallas-wings-beat-connecticut-sun-83-63-behind-arike-ogunbowale-jessica-shepard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396080\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings beat Connecticut Sun 83-63 behind Arike Ogunbowale, Jessica Shepard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Shepard and Arike Ogunbowale scored 15 points each and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Wings<\/a> used a big run in the third quarter to cruise to an 83-63 win over the Connecticut Sun on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The Sun went 3 of 15 from the field and scored just eight points.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Diamond Miller led the Sun (7-23) with a season-high 22 points. Kennedy Burke added 14. <\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Dallas led 48-37 at the half. <\/p>\n<p>Three bus loads of fans from Houston attended the game. The Sun will relocate to Houston next season.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Shepard and Arike Ogunbowale scored 15 points each and the Dallas Wings used a big run in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1770,71528,102,104,103,14421,154,14422],"class_list":["post-396080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-basketball","tag-brittney-griner","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396080","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=396080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}