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Connecticut\u2019s Aneesah Morrow (24), shown in a game last June against Golden State, scored 21 points in the Sun\u2019s exhibition win over Toronto on Wednesday.\u00a0 (Photo by Eakin Howard\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Aneesah Morrow came off the bench to score 21 points while Aaliyah Edwards scored 14 points as the Connecticut Sun beat the Toronto Tempo, 83-78, on Wednesday before a sellout crowd of 8,210 at the Coca Cola Center in Toronto in a WNBA exhibition game.<\/p>\n
It was the first game for the expansion Tempo franchise, who selected former Connecticut guard Marina Mabrey in the expansion draft. Mabrey and former Washington All-Star Brittany Sykes did not play.<\/p>\n
The Sun close out the exhibition season by hosting the New York Liberty on Sunday, May 3 at 5 p.m. at the Mohegan Sun Arena.<\/p>\n
Connecticut trailed by as many as 13 points in the third quarter and trailed by nine in the fourth quarter but used a 17-7 run to close out the game and secure the win.<\/p>\n
Morrow came off the bench and had a game-high seven rebounds. Edwards, the Ontario native, hit 6-of-8 shots from the field and pulled down five rebounds. Kennedy Burke scored 13 points for Connecticut.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really love the energy this group is bringing,\u201d Sun head coach Rachid Meziane said. \u201cI think that we played tonight with a lot of energy. We didn\u2019t lose our mind when the game was a little bit tough for us. We stayed locked in, we reacted and we won it. But again, it\u2019s only a preseason game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brittney Griner got off to a great start in her Sun debut on both the offensive and defensive end\u00a0with a\u00a0basket\u00a0immediately\u00a0followed by a block to start\u00a0the game. Griner finished with seven points and five rebounds in 16 minutes of action.<\/p>\n
Former UConn star Kia Nurse, who is from Canada, had the\u00a0honor of scoring\u00a0the\u00a0first points in Tempo history\u00a0at the\u00a07:59 mark in the first quarter\u00a0with a three-pointer to tumultuous applause by\u00a0the Tempo fans.<\/p>\n
The Sun\u00a0proceeded\u00a0to go on a 17-6\u00a0run\u00a0with\u00a0additional\u00a0baskets from\u00a0Sun newcomers\u00a0Griner\u00a0and\u00a0Burke\u00a0and returners\u00a0Edwards\u00a0and\u00a0Morrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connecticut\u2019s Aneesah Morrow (24), shown in a game last June against Golden State, scored 21 points in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-614593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614593","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=614593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}