ROUNDUP

ROUNDUP
Friday's games
Silver Stars 98, Mercury 96
SAN ANTONIO -- Vickie Johnson scored a season-high 25 points, including the go-ahead layup past two defenders, as San Antonio beat Phoenix. Phoenix, which has lost three straight, got 27 points from rookie Cappie Pondexter, 25 from Diana Taurasi and 22 off the bench from Penny Taylor. The Mercury (11-15) missed a chance to tie when Taylor rebounded teammate Kristen Rasmussen's miss, but she missed the follow near the basket at the buzzer. Pondexter scored 16 points in the second quarter, and Taurasi broke the franchise single-season record for points that was set in 1998 when Jennifer Gillom scored 624. San Antonio (12-14) had double-doubles from rookie Sophia Young and Katie Feenstra. Young had 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Feenstra had 14 points and 13 rebounds.
Sun 75, Monarchs 68
UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- Katie Douglas scored 19 points and Lindsay Whalen added 17 to lead Connecticut in a rematch of last season's WNBA finals. The Sun (20-6) extended their winning streak to a season-high six games and have done it without Nykesha Sales, the franchise's career scoring leader, who is sidelined with a sore Achilles' tendon. Sales has missed the last eight games, but the Eastern Conference-leading Sun have hardly flinched, going 7-1 in that stretch. The defending champion Monarchs have had a tougher time of late, dropping three straight, all on the road to the top three Eastern Conference teams -- Connecticut, Indiana and Detroit. Their loss to the Shock on Wednesday was a 20-point rout. Taj McWilliams-Franklin dominated inside for Connecticut with 15 points and 14 rebounds, grabbing 10 boards on the defensive glass. Nicole Powell led Sacramento with 17 points.
Sky 79, Lynx 65
CHICAGO -- Stacey Dales had 20 points and hit six of her nine 3-point attempts to help the Sky snap an eight-game losing streak. Candice Dupree added 19 points and four rebounds for Chicago (4-22) and Jia Perkins had 15 points. Vanessa Hayden had 16 points and eight rebounds for the Lynx (9-17), who lost their second straight game and fourth in five games. Minnesota's Seimone Augustus -- the WNBA's second-leading scorer at 22.4 points a game coming into Friday -- had 17 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter.
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