Sparkle

Kelsey Plum scored 23 points and Azura Stevens added 21 points with 11 rebounds while the sparks of Los Angeles transformed an offensive wave near half-time into a rare home victory by having Top 92-88 against Connecticut Sun on Sunday.
Rickea Jackson scored 19 points and Delerica Hamby collected 17 points with seven rebounds for The Sparks (7-14), which ended a sequence of six home games to win in their own building for the second time this season and the first since May 25.
Los Angeles made a 6-0 sequence to close the first half and achieved a sequence of 10-1 to open the second half while finishing his sequence of 13 consecutive defeats against Connecticut.
Bria Hartley scored a 25-point summit and Saniya Rivers added 20 points for the Sun (3-18), who lost for the 12th time in their last 13 games. The top scorer in Connecticut, Tina Charles, was held at nine points on 3 out of 10 shots.
The sun played without Marina Mobley (knee) for the eighth consecutive match.
Plum gave the Sparks an advance of 88-85 with 2:08 remaining on a launch on the left. After a turnover in the sun, Plum made a pair of free throws for an advance of 90-85 with 1:28 on the clock.
Rivers only carried out one of the two free throws for Connecticut with 47 seconds remaining, while Leila Lacan missed a rapid lay-up attempt with 6.4 seconds remaining under the pressure of Hamby.
Connecticut took a hot start, pulling 54.5% of speech in the first quarter to take a 30-27 lead. The sun increased their advantage to eight points in the second quarter before taking an advance of 49-47 at halftime.
Jackson led all the scorers first half with 17 points for the Sparks, while Hartley scored 12 points for the sun.
Plum went into a single possession of the 15th on the list of all time of 3 points made at 537 with a long -term shot at the first quarter. She made 3 of the 7 from a distance for the match.
The two teams have a match to be made before the stars break.
– field level media



