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Quigley Drops Season-High 19 Points, Sky Defeats Mercury, 91-75

July 2, 2022 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
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FINAL SCORE: CHI 91, PHO 75

CHICAGO SKY (15-5) vs. PHOENIX MERCURY (9-13)

WINTRUST ARENA | 2022 WNBA REGULAR SEASON | JULY 2, 2022

TEAM HIGH POINTS HIGH ASSISTS HIGH REBOUNDS

CHI A. QUIGLEY (19) C. PARKER (7) C. PARKER (8)

PHO S. DIGGINS-SMITH (25) S. PEDDY (6) D. DESHIELDS (9)

TONIGHT'S GAME HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

A matchup between two players on the WNBA's Top 25 Players of All-Time List, or W25: The Sky's Candace Parker, and the Mercury's Diana Taurasi

NEXT UP: The Sky will travel to Minnesota to face off against the Lynx Wednesday, July 6. Tipoff at Target Center is at 12:00 p.m. CT and the game will be broadcasted on NBA TV, Bally Sports North Extra, and CW 26.

Wednesday's game will showcase a match-up between the No. 6 team in the Western Conference (Minnesota) and the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference (Chicago). This will be the Sky's third meeting against the Lynx this season which is coming off an 85-91 loss against the Las Vegas Aces. The last time the two teams went head-to-head, the Sky defeated the Lynx 88-85, after a buzzer beater three-pointer from Chicago's Courtney Vandersloot on June 26. This will be Sylvia Fowles's final regular-season game against her former team. Fowles averages 15.4 points per game shooting 66.3% from the field.

KEY RUNS

Sky went on a 23-5 run from 4:53 to :00, leading 32-12 at the end of the first quarter

Sky went on a 25-9 run from 4:53 in the first quarter to 8:36 of the second quarter

Mercury went on a 20-3 run from 6:25 to :04 in the second quarter

Sky went on an 15-6 run from 5:12 to :58 in the fourth quarter

KEY STATS

Candace Parker dished out four assists in the first quarter alone

Skylar Diggins-Smith scored 10 points in the second quarter alone

Allie Quigley scored 11 points in the third quarter alone

Sky won the first quarter 32-12

Mercury won the second quarter 28-14

Sky outrebounded the Mercury 37-27

CHICAGO NOTES

Emma Meesseman reached 800 career defensive rebounds

Parker passed Sylvia Fowles (6,229) for 10th on the all-time points list at the 4:43 mark of the fourth quarter

Allie Quigley dropped a season-high in a game with 19 points and tied a season-high with 3 three-pointers

Parker tied her career-high of seven turnovers in a game. This is the sixth time in her career she's had seven turnovers in a game.

Five Sky players scored in double figures (C. Parker, E. Meesseman, K. Copper, A. Quigley, R. Gardner)

PHOENIX NOTES

Diana Taurasi tied Candice Dupree for 4th on the all-time games played list at 494

Shey Peddy tallied 4 assists in the second quarter alone

Skylar Diggins-Smith recorded 4,000 career points with 2:24 left in the third quarter

Taurasi didn't score her first points until 0:49 left in the third quarter

Diamond DeShields notched 9 points in the third quarter alone

Mercury tied a current season-high in a game with 13 steals

Diggins-Smith tied a season-high in a game with four steals

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