{"id":811461,"date":"2026-05-21T04:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/811461\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:56:21","slug":"jessica-shepards-triple-double-powers-dallas-wings-past-chicago-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/811461\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Shepard&#8217;s triple-double powers Dallas Wings past Chicago Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Jessica\u00a0Shepard had her second career triple-double and the first in the WNBA this season, Arike Ogunbowale scored 11 of her 23 points in the fourth quarter, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> beat the Chicago Sky 99-89 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard tied her season high with 18 points on 6-for-7 shooting, added a career-best 12 assists and grabbed 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Cloud hit two free throws that cut Chicago\u2019s deficit to three points with 2:32 left, but Ogunbowale answered with a 3-pointer 11 seconds later, then hit another with 1:42 remaining that made it 93-84.<\/p>\n<p>Kamilla Cardoso had a season-high 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting and 11 rebounds \u2014 her second consecutive double-double and third this season \u2014 for the Sky (3-2). Cloud had 21 points and eight rebounds, Skylar Diggins scored 15 and Gabriela Jaquez added 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard had eight points, six rebounds and five assists in the third quarter as the Wings outscored Chicago 34-26. It was Dallas&#8217; highest-scoring quarter this season and led to a 71-64 advantage. The Wings made 11 of 16 (68.8%) from the field, 3 of 5 from behind the arc, and hit 9 of 11 from the free-throw line in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Rickea Jackson, Chicago&#8217;s leading scorer at 18.0 points per game, missed her first game following a season-ending ACL injury sustained Sunday in the Sky&#8217;s 86-79 win over Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings snapped a six-game skid against Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Banham converted a four-point play that capped a 10-0 run and gave the Sky an 11-point lead late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wings:<\/strong> Visit Atlanta on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sky:<\/strong> Host Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Jessica\u00a0Shepard had her second career triple-double and the first in the WNBA this season, Arike Ogunbowale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":811462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,347,1596,358,329725,329726,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-811461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-texas","tag-tp-arike-ogunbowale","tag-tp-paige-bueckers","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116610792383337305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811461","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=811461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}