{"id":115268,"date":"2025-08-28T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115268\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:05:08","slug":"with-paige-bueckers-a-late-scratch-dallas-wings-drop-another-to-connecticut-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115268\/","title":{"rendered":"With Paige Bueckers a late scratch, Dallas Wings drop another to Connecticut Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON \u2014 Leila Lacan had 22 points, Marina Mabrey scored 18 points, including two key free throws with 16.6 seconds left, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Dallas Wings<\/a> 101-95 on Wednesday night for their highest scoring game this season.<\/p>\n

Dallas played without No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers<\/a>, who was a late scratch from the lineup due to an illness.<\/p>\n

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Tina Charles also scored 18 points for Connecticut, (10-28) which won on the road for just the fourth time this season in 20 tries.<\/p>\n

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Aneesah Morrow finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Saniya Rivers added 11 points.<\/p>\n

Aziaha James led Dallas (9-30) with 22 points. Myisha Hines-Allen scored a career-high 18 points and Maddy Siegrist added 15 points. Arike Ogunbowale (right knee) was also out of the Dallas lineup.<\/p>\n

Bria Hartley made a basket with 7:31 left in the fourth quarter to give Connecticut an 89-77 lead. But the Sun went more than five minutes without scoring and did not make another field goal until the closing seconds.<\/p>\n

Mabrey was called for a lane violation with 27.5 seconds left, leading to a made free throw by Amy Okonkwo to get Dallas within 95-92. Charles answered with a hook shot in the lane to end Connecticut\u2019s field-goal drought.<\/p>\n

Mabrey and Charles combined to go 4 for 4 at the free-throw line down the stretch to seal it.<\/p>\n

The Wings dropped to 5-16 at home this season.<\/p>\n

Find more Wings coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON \u2014 Leila Lacan had 22 points, Marina Mabrey scored 18 points, including two key free throws with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2832,2834,2833,99,13469,434],"class_list":["post-115268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-dallas-wings","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-wings","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115268","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=115268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}