{"id":11081,"date":"2026-05-31T05:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:38:22","slug":"sparks-go-cold-in-4th-quarter-against-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11081","title":{"rendered":"Sparks go cold in 4th quarter against Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>HARTFORD, Conn. \u2014 Aneesah Morrow had 17 points and 14 rebounds, her fourth consecutive game with a double-double, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Los Angeles Sparks 84-81 on Saturday night at PeoplesBank Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11079\">Luis Garc\u00eda leads Toluca past Tigres to CONCACAF Champions Cup title<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morrow leads the WNBA with seven double-doubles this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Burke scored 14 points for the Sun. Leila Lacan, who made her season debut, and Diamond Miller added 12 points apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut (2-8) had lost three in a row, all by double figures. The Sun tied their season high with 11 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Atkins and Rae Burrell led the Sparks (4-4) with 16 points apiece, Erica Wheeler scored 13 and Dearica Hamby 11. Ogwumike finished with 12 points and three rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler made a layup 27 seconds into the fourth quarter and the Sparks didn\u2019t make another field goal until she made another layup with 3:38 to play. Nneka Ogwumike followed with a three-point play and Atkins hit two free throws to make it a three-point game less than a minute later.<\/p>\n<p>Burrell\u2019s 3-pointer made it 81-79 with 52 seconds lefts, but the Sparks got no closer.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11068\">Dodgers\u2019 Teoscar Hernandez expected to miss a month with hamstring injury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike has 3,315 career rebounds to move into a tie with Tamika Catchings for fifth on the WNBA\u2019s career list.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Connecticut\u2019s Brittney Griner (rib injury) returned from a four-game absence but left the game for good late in the first half after she was apparently poked in the eye. She finished with nine points.<\/p>\n<p>Lacan helped Basket Landes to a championship, and was named finals MVP, in the top French professional league earlier this month. She averaged 10.4 points, 3.7 assists and 2.2 steals as a rookie last season in 25 games for Connecticut and the Sun were 2-17 before the point guard returned from international duty and went 9-16 after.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Plum (ankle) missed her second consecutive game for the Sparks. Plum, the WNBA\u2019s leading scorer at 28.6 points per game, will be re-evaluated on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11066\">Rancho Alamitos baseball roughed up by Schurr in Division 8 title game<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Up next<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sparks:<\/strong> Host Las Vegas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sparks go nearly six minutes without a field goal in the fourth quarter of an 84-81 loss to Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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