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Connecticut Sun 68 Los Angeles Sparks 77
Status: Final
1 2 3 4 T
Sun 22 14 10 22 68
Sparks 32 12 22 11 77
Q4 1:52 CON 68- 77 Saniya Rivers makes 15-foot pullup jump shot
(Charlisse Leger-Walker assists)
Q4 2:30 CON 66- 77 Saniya Rivers makes 1-foot layup (Leila Lacan
assists)
Q4 4:17 CON 64- 77 Kennedy Burke makes running layup
Q4 4:30 CON 62- 77 Gianna Kneepkens makes 3-foot layup (Leila
Lacan assists)
Q4 5:16 CON 60- 77 Kennedy Burke makes 2-foot layup (Saniya Rivers
assists)
Points Rae Burrell 20 Assists Erica Wheeler 5 Rebounds Nneka Ogwumike 11
Points Saniya Rivers 14 Assists Leila Lacan 4 Rebounds Raegan Beers 7
Sparks end skid as Burrell has 20 in 77-68 win over Sun
LOS ANGELES -- Rae Burrell scored 20 points and the Los Angeles Sparks ended a six-game losing streak with a 77-68 win over the Connecticut Sun on Saturday night.
Nneka Ogwumike, who announced her retirement on Wednesday, had 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Sparks (13-24), her 131st career double-double. Erica Wheeler also had 11 points and Dearica Hamby had 10.
Saniya Rivers scored 14 points off the bench to lead the Sun (9-27), who were without Brittney Griner (knee) and Aaliyah Edwards (ankle). Leila Lacan added 13 points and Kennedy Burke 10.
Los Angeles, which allows 93.6 points a game, held the league's worst offense to 11 points below its average after giving up 124 points to Atlanta on Thursday. The Sparks did that despite giving up 30 points on 25 turnovers.
A 3-pointer from Wheeler at 6:12 of the fourth quarter produced a 77-55 lead but the Sun reeled off 13 straight for a single-digit deficit with less than two minutes to go but missed their last five shots.
The Sparks led 44-36 at halftime.
Connecticut hit t 4 of 16 shots while Los Angeles rebounded to make 9 of 12 shots in the third quarter to boost the lead to 66-46.
Hamby was ejected early in the fourth quarter when she flung her right hand back while boxing out Raegan Beers and smacked her in the jaw. No foul was called as Beers went down but as she went to the locker room the play was reviewed. Beers was given a loose ball foul while Hamby received a flagrant 2 foul for unnecessary and excessive contact.
Sun: Home against Chicago on Tuesday.
Sparks: Game three in a four-game home stand Monday against Atlanta.
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