Rebecca Allen scored 27 factors and Angel Reese notched a double-double with 15 factors and 11 rebounds to assist the host Chicago Sky defeat the Dallas Wings 87-76 on Wednesday.
Rachel Banham added 11 factors for Chicago (6-13), which stopped a two-game dropping streak whereas sending Dallas (6-15) to its second straight defeat.
Reese stretched her streak of double-doubles to seven video games, however her WNBA-record run of video games with at the least 15 boards ended at six.
The Sky led by as many as 15 factors within the second half whereas taking pictures 50.9 p.c in comparison with 36 p.c for Dallas. The Wings drew to inside six factors down the stretch earlier than Chicago pulled away.
Li Yueru had 18 factors and 10 rebounds for the Wings. All-Star guard Paige Bueckers adopted with 17 factors whereas JJ Quinerly chipped in 16.
Allen completed one level shy of her profession excessive whereas ending 9-for-13 from the ground, together with a 5-for-7 effort from lengthy vary.
Allen paced Chicago to a 45-37 lead on the break, scoring 12 first-half factors on 4-of-5 taking pictures. She drilled three lengthy jumpers within the remaining 2:24 of the second quarter to assist the Sky create distance from the Wings.
Bueckers led Dallas with seven first-half factors.
With quite a few accidents impacting the crew, together with these to mainstays Arike Ogunbowale (left thumb) and DiJonai Carrington (rib), Dallas began 4 rookies for the third successive sport.
Again within the lineup for the primary time since June 24, Sky middle Kamilla Cardoso sparked the crew off the bench from the outset. Cardoso, who helped Workforce Brazil to a silver medal on the FIBA Girls’s AmeriCup in Santiago, Chile, scored six first-quarter factors on 3-for-3 taking pictures as Chicago took a 19-18 lead after 10 minutes.
Haley Jones contributed 4 factors in quarter-hour for the Wings in her first motion in 10 days. Jones began the season with Phoenix and was launched from a hardship contract on June 29. Per league guidelines, she could not rejoin the Wings on a rest-of-season contract till Wednesday.
Chicago earned a three-game sweep of the season sequence in opposition to Dallas. The Sky took each video games of a home-and-home on Could 29 and 31, profitable by 5 and 11 factors, respectively.
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