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<\/p>\nCaitlin Clark out, Paige Bueckers takes spotlight in sold-out Wings-Fever game <\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Caitlin Clark out, Paige Bueckers takes spotlight in sold-out Wings-Fever game<\/p>\n 03:22<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Maddy Siegrist<\/a> tied a career high with 22 points in her first start since June 6, Li Yueru added 20 points off the bench, and the Dallas Wings held off the Indiana Fever<\/a> 81-80 on Tuesday night to end a five-game losing streak<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paige Bueckers’ wraparound pass to Myisha Hines-Allen for a 3-pointer gave the Wings a 78-61 lead with 6:38 left in the fourth quarter. But Dallas made only one more field goal the rest of the way \u2014 a three-point play by Yueru with 2:31 left.<\/p>\n Indiana \u2014 again playing without Caitlin Clark (groin) who missed her 20th game this season \u2014 scored 13 straight points to begin a game-closing 19-3 run that Kelsey Mitchell capped with 33.4 seconds left on a tough shot in the lane. Bueckers missed a jumper from the free-throw line with 14 seconds left, and the Fever grabbed the defensive rebound.<\/p>\n Mitchell was surrounded at the other end, leading to a timeout with 1.7 seconds left. Mitchell got the ball again, but her 3-pointer from the corner hit the side of the backboard as time expired.<\/p>\n Mitchell had 24 points and four 3-pointers for Indiana (18-15). Natasha Howard had 12 points and 12 rebounds for her eighth double-double this season. Aliyah Boston and Sophie Cunningham each scored 14.<\/p>\n Bueckers finished with 16 points and eight assists for Dallas (9-24), which had lost 11 of its last 13 games. Bueckers has scored in double figures in all 26 games this season. Arike Ogunbowale (right knee) did not play.<\/p>\n The Fever also lost Aari McDonald (broken right foot) and Sydney Colson (torn left ACL) to season-ending injuries last week.<\/p>\n Indiana trailed by 14 points in the first half before closing on a 9-0 run to tie it at 42-all at halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark out, Paige Bueckers takes spotlight in sold-out Wings-Fever game Caitlin Clark out, Paige Bueckers takes spotlight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2470,2862,62,67,132,68,232,3357],"class_list":{"0":"post-141311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-dallas-wings","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba","15":"tag-womens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115019254544333307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}