Skylar Diggins had 15 points to lead seven Chicago players scoring in double figures and the Sky beat the expansion Portland Fire 101-78 on Wednesday at Wintrust Arena to snap a six-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Sydney Taylor and Jacy Sheldon each scored 14 points for the Sky (5-12), Kamilla Cardoso had 13 points and eight rebounds, and Azura Stevens finished with 11 points, 11 rebounds and five assists. Gabriela Jaquez and Aicha Coulibaly each scored 10 points.<\/p>\n
Megan Gustafson led the Fire (8-10) with 17 points and Sarah Ashlee Barker scored 13. Emily Engstler and Carla Leite added 10 points apiece.<\/p>\n
Gustafson hit a short floater that made it 50-all with 5:56 left in the third quarter, but Diggins had eight points as the Sky scored 15 of the next 17 to take control for good.<\/p>\n
The Sky made 36 of 69 (52%) from the field, scored 56 points in the paint and had 22 second-chance points.<\/p>\n
The Fire hit 10 3-pointers on 25 attempts, but shot just 38% (26 of 69) overall and was outscored 23-16 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n
Chicago beat the Fire 98-83 on the road in the season opener.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The teams wrap up their regular-season series Friday at Wintrust Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skylar Diggins had 15 points to lead seven Chicago players scoring in double figures and the Sky beat…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":891120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1497,5386,1818,60094,30231,39496,22795],"class_list":["post-891119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-sky","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-portland-fire","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-wintrust-arena","tag-wnba-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116809162295471886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891119","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=891119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}