NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart scored 28 points, Jonquel Jones added 14 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists, and the New York Liberty beat the Seattle Storm 92-86 on Wednesday night to complete a two-game sweep.<\/p>\n
The teams also played Monday and New York came away with a 95-83 victory. Seattle (6-27) has dropped 10 straight.<\/p>\n
New York (19-13) has won six of its last seven games.<\/p>\n
With the game tied at 50, Sabrina Ionescu got New York going. She scored eight points during a 12-2 run, starting it with a three-point play and a 3-pointer. Ionescu had a quiet first half, scoring just two points. Seattle hung around and only trailed 69-65 after three.<\/p>\n
Jones scored the first six points of the fourth quarter with a three-point play and a 3-pointer to restore the double-digit advantage. Seattle got within six a few times in the final few minutes, but New York had answers each time to hold on for the victory.<\/p>\n
Dominique Malonga led the Storm with 31 points and 10 rebounds. Awa Fam and Jade Melbourne each added 13 points.<\/p>\n
For the second straight game, New York jumped out quickly on Seattle. The Liberty led 27-16 after one quarter thanks in no small part to the play of Rebecca Allen, who had 10 points in the opening 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
Malonga kept the Storm in the game in the second quarter, scoring 15 points in the period. The 20-year-old French star showed off her range, hitting 3-pointers and also drove to the basket and hit a fadeaway. Her 3-pointer with a few seconds left in the half brought Seattle to 47-43.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Storm: Visit Portland on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Liberty: Host Las Vegas on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart scored 28 points, Jonquel Jones added 14 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-804182","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\/804182","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=804182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}