{"id":754235,"date":"2026-04-26T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:57:28","slug":"tibbetts-and-vogel-lead-phoenix-to-victory-in-first-wnba-game-played-in-sioux-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754235\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibbetts and Vogel lead Phoenix to victory in first WNBA game played in Sioux Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; South Dakota native Nate Tibbetts and South Dakota State graduate Megan Vogel returned to Sioux Falls for the first WNBA game played in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This was the Phoenix Mercury and Chicago Sky\u2019s first preseason game of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For the Mercury it was Kahleah Copper scoring 19 points in 13 minutes played, stealing the show going 4-6 from range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For the Chicago Sky it was Hailey Van Lith going 8-8 from the field to end the game with 20 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As well as Van Lith played the Mercury were able to close out the Sky late to win 108-104.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; South Dakota native Nate Tibbetts and South Dakota State graduate Megan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":754236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-754235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116470654648994873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754235","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=754235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}