Chicago Beats Connecticut

Written on June 18, 2007 – 6:08 am | by bcourtney |

The Chicago Sky have now won five of their last seven games. Candice Dupree scored 28 points as the Sky beat the Connecticut Sun 87-74 Sunday. Stacey Dales added 17 and Dominique Canty had 14 for Chicago. Asjha Jones scored 22 points and had 12 rebounds for Connecticut. The Sun is on a four-game losing streak, the team’s longest since 2002, when the franchise was in Orlando. The Sky led 40-34 at halftime, but the Sun went on a 17-4 run after intermission to take a 51-44 lead. By the end of the 3rd quarter, Sun Coach Mike Thibault had all his starters on the bench and Chicago had a 26-15 lead. The Reserves got Connecticut within 28-22 when the starters came back in with about 7 min left in the half. Connecticut, which is in its ninth year, had won all four previous meeting between the teams, defeating Chicago by an average of 12.5 points.

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