The two worst teams in the WNBA meet for the fourth and final time this year when the Minnesota Lynx visit the Los Angeles Sparks on Sunday night.

Minnesota (8-22) and Los Angeles (9-21) are finishing disappointing seasons. The Lynx feature one of the league's youngest rosters while the Sparks endured a difficult year, in which star forward Lisa Leslie did not play after giving birth in June and Chamique Holdsclaw announced her surprise retirement after just five games.

The Lynx clearly are finishing up better than the Sparks. Minnesota has won three of its last five games and took advantage of a depleted Seattle team for a 95-74 victory on Tuesday. The Storm played without leading scorer and rebounder Lauren Jackson and second-leading rebounder Janell Burse.

"This is the first time all year that we've caught a break with the star player on the other team being injured or not playing for personal reasons," Minnesota coach Don Zierden said.

Seimone Augustus scored 21 points and Svetlana Abrosimova added 20 for the Lynx, who led by as many as 28 points and handed out a season-high 29 assists. Abrosimova scored 16 of Minnesota's franchise-record 37 points in the third quarter.

"I couldn't get in the flow last game or the first half of this one," Abrosimova said. "(Zierden) asked me specifically if I could bring us energy. As soon as we started getting that we just got on a run and it was fun after that."

It's been another tremendous season for Augustus, who is second in the league in scoring with 22.7 points per game. Her best performance of the season may have been in a 90-87 loss at Los Angeles on June 8 in which she made all 11 shots and finished with 28.

It's the only win in three tries for the Sparks against the Lynx this year, but Minnesota has lost 12 of 14 meetings in Los Angeles.

The Sparks have lost five straight after a 100-83 loss at Phoenix on Saturday. Rookie Sidney Spencer had 18 points and 11 rebounds to lead Los Angeles, which allowed 100 points for only the second time this year.

"We hung in there as well as we could and I just think the overwhelmingness of them constantly running got to us," Sparks coach Michael Cooper said.

Los Angeles has been blown out by an average of 22 points in losing its two previous games on the second half of back-to-back games.