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 101-95 on Wednesday night for their highest scoring game this season.<\/p>\n
Dallas played without No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers, who was a late scratch from the lineup due to an illness.<\/p>\n
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
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’s 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leila Lacan had 22 points, Marina Mabrey scored 18 points, including two key free throws with 16.6 seconds…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,2470,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-181360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-wings","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115104177500631727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181360","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=181360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}