The Wings Run Out Of Gas Against The Mystic; Lose 4 Straight

Dallas Wings' Gloria Johnson positions for the rebound as her team falls to the Mystic 87-79. Photo credit: W3LiveNews 

The Wings Run Out Of Gas Against The Mystic

by Willie Pointer

Erin Phillips got the wings scoring started with a deep corner three with 7:50 seconds left in the first quarter. The Mystics jump out really on the wings to lead by 5pts, Courtney Paris was tagged with 2 quick fouls and she had to sit the rest of the quarter.

Glory Johnson entered the game with 5:45 remaining and she made an immediate impact scoring on driving layup, Mystics center Stefanie Dolson makes the wings pay as she connects on a short jumper in the paint.

Jordan hooper drops a corner three assisted by sims sweet pass from the top of the key,  Bria Hartley puts the Mystics back up 19-17 with 2min remain in the first quarter. Glory Johnson scores and pull the wings to within one point to end the quarter with the mystic leading 22-21

Ivory Latta makes a three point basket to extend the Mystic lead to opts with 9minutes remaining, Ruth Hamblin makes a turnaround jumper for the wings, Mystics Kia Vaughn hit a driving layup for her only opts in the half.

The Wings have their outside game working as Jordan Hooper and Karima Christmas both have knock down huge three’s in the 2nd Quarter to pull the wings within one point with 3min remaining. Glory Johnson was hit with a flagrant 1 foul with :10 left in the half. Washington took the lead into halftime 40-37
 

Sims got the second half scoring started for the wings with a short jumper from the wing to cut the lead 40-39 but the mystics pushed back and have since went on a quick 7-0 spurt to lead 47-39 with 5:48 left in the frame.

Washington leads by 10, 51-41 with 4:22 seconds left in the 3rd. Aerial Powers makes a couple of free throws to cut into the mystics lead, but Ivory Latta makes the wings pay with a deep three from the corner.

Coach Williams gets tossed after a horrible call from the referee, it puts the mystic up by 11 with 3min to go in the quarter. Aerial powers has scored back to back baskets to cut into the mystics lead, at the end of three the mystics lead 68-53.

Karima Christmas hits a big three to cut the lead down to 12 with 9min to play, the bigs for the wings haven’t played well at all tonight as the wings find themselves down 17pts with 6min left in the game.

With 4:45 left in the contest the wings make a push to cut the lead down to 10 behind some key free throws from Glory Johnson, Courtney Paris commits her 5th foul as the wings are down by 11 with 2:36 remaining

The Wings drop another game as the fall to the Washington Mystic tonight 87-79, next home game is saturday 7:30 against the LA Sparks.