Temperature Rising: As the dog days of summer continue and heat waves traverse the country, the Mercury have found their scoring touch. After posting 95 points - 41 of which came from Diana Taurasi - as part of the highest scoring game of the WNBA season on Thursday, they poured in 96 more to help eclipse that mark by a single point on Friday night. Unfortunately for Phoenix, first Houston and now San Antonio scored 98 in dealing the Mercury back-to-back losses in the scorching Texas sun. Taurasi's 25 points were trumped for game-high honors by teammate Cappie Pondexter's 27.
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ALSO MAKING HEADLINES ... Rookie Showdown: Seimone Augustus and Candice Dupree have been two of the biggest successes from the 2006 draft class, but their teams still find themselves in the cellar as July winds down. The two squared off for the second time on Friday, with Dupree (19 points) getting the best of Augustus (17) as the Sky snapped an eight-game slide with a 79-65 win vs. the Lynx. |
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WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
"We wanted to keep the winning streak going. We didn't want it to end. Not now."
-- Connecticut's Taj McWilliams-Franklin, who tallied 15 points and 14 rebounds in the Sun's sixth straight win, 75-68 over the Monarchs in a rematch of the 2005 WNBA Finals.
"We wanted to keep the winning streak going. We didn't want it to end. Not now."
-- Connecticut's Taj McWilliams-Franklin, who tallied 15 points and 14 rebounds in the Sun's sixth straight win, 75-68 over the Monarchs in a rematch of the 2005 WNBA Finals.
