Charles, Wiggins Lead New York Liberty Past Sky 89-81

chicago skyGLENVIEW, Ill. (AP) – Tina Charles had a season-high 26 points, 11 rebounds and five assists, and Candice Wiggins hit all five of her 3-pointers, to lead the New York Liberty to an 89-81 win over the Chicago Sky on Tuesday night.
Wiggins finished with 15 points, going 5 of 7 from the field, as New York’s bench out-scored Chicago’s reserves 34-7, ending a 10-game losing streak to the Sky that dated back to Aug. 21, 2012.

Three-time WNBA Player of the Week Elena Delle Donne, who leads the league at 29 points a game, finished with 26 but was only 8 of 20 from the field. She went 10 of 10 from the line, running her streak of consecutive free throws to 58, eight shy of Eva Nemcova’s WNBA record set in the 1999 and 2000 seasons.

It was the first meeting of the season between the teams that engineered the biggest trade of the offseason as each team sent a former Rutgers star home. Chicago (5-5) got six-time All-Star Cappie Pondexter while two-time All-Start Epiphanny Prince went to New York (6-4).

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