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Sky forward Angel Reese reacts in frustration after the Sun scored during the second half Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, at Wintrust Arena. (Geoff Stellfox\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nTina Charles scored 23 points and had her 200th career double-double, Bria Hartley also scored 23 and the Connecticut Sun held off the Chicago Sky 94-84 on Saturday at Wintrust Arena for a season-best three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
Hartley was 8 of 9 from the field, including 3 of 3 from 3-point range, the last coming with two minutes left to effectively end the Sky\u2019s frantic comeback try. The Sun led by 21 with 3:21 to play in the third quarter before the Sky closed within four with five minutes to play. Hartley\u2019s 3-pointer made it 89-79.<\/p>\n
Marina Mabrey added 20 points and reserve Saniya Rivers 13 for the Sun (9-27), who won just their third road game. Charles had 10 rebounds and is the WNBA career leader in double-doubles.<\/p>\n
Kia Nurse led the comeback for the Sky (9-27) with 19 points. She didn\u2019t score until hitting two 3-pointers in the last minute of the first half and scored 10 in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Kamilla Cardoso added 18 points, Ariel Atkins scored 12 and Angel Reese had 11 points and 11 rebounds, giving her 19 double-doubles for the season, matching the Las Vegas Aces\u2019 A\u2019ja Wilson for the league lead.<\/p>\n
Sky forward Angel Reese reacts in frustration after the Sun scored during the second half Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, at Wintrust Arena. (Geoff Stellfox\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Sky coach Tyler Marsh was ejected two minutes into the second quarter for confronting a referee about a no-call. The Sky trailed 33-20 at the time.<\/p>\n
Mabrey had 12 points in the first quarter as the Sun took a 28-13 lead. Connecticut shot 11 of 18 (61%) with three 3s, while the Sky were 6 of 18 (33%), going without a 3-pointer and shooting 1 of 7 from the line.<\/p>\n
The Sky ended up 9 of 19 beyond the arc and 15 of 26 from the line with 17 turnovers. The Sun scored 26 points off turnovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tina Charles scored 23 points and had her 200th career double-double, Bria Hartley also scored 23 and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3691,438,4384,9213,12816,99,27042,10712,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-105613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-angel-reese","9":"tag-chicago-sky","10":"tag-connecticut-sun","11":"tag-kia-nurse","12":"tag-marina-mabrey","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tina-charles","15":"tag-tyler-marsh","16":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}