Atlanta halts losing streak
Mcdonald’s floater helps Dream end skid, top Wings
Maya Caldwell scored 18 points, Rhyne Howard added 16 points and eight rebounds, and the Atlanta Dream beat the Dallas Wings 80-75 on Tuesday night to snap a four-game losing streak.
Atlanta (8-8) equaled its win total from last season with the victory.
Aari Mcdonald drove into the lane and sank a floater to give Atlanta a 77-72 lead. Marina Mabrey made a long 3-ponter with 29.8 seconds left to pull Dallas within 79-75 but she missed one on their next possession after Howard made one free throw.
Mcdonald finished with 15 points and Cheyenne Parker had 14 for Atlanta.
Parker made a 3-pointer just before the halftime buzzer to extend Atlanta’s lead to 51-40 after closing on a 10-2 run over the final three minutes. Howard scored 15 points in the first half.
Allisha Gray led Dallas (8-9) with 18 points. Arike Ogunbowale and Teaira Mccowan each scored 14.
Note: A phone call between jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife has been rescheduled after an earlier attempt to connect on the couple’s anniversary failed because of an “unfortunate mistake,” Biden administration officials said Tuesday. State Department spokesman Ned Price said the original call last weekend could not be completed because of a logistical error. Griner was to have spoken with her wife Cherelle on Saturday, the couple’s fourth anniversary, for the first time since her arrest in Russia in mid-february. The call was to have been routed through the American embassy in Russia, which was to have patched the conversation through. But Cherelle Griner told The Associated Press that no call ever came even though it had been approved by the Russian government and had been on the schedule for about two weeks. She said that though she was initially concerned Russian authorities had thwarted the call, she later learned that her wife had tried to call her 11 times by dialing a number for the U.S. embassy that she had been given but that no one picked up the line.