CHICAGO — Candice Dupree scored 14 points, Sylvia Fowles had 12 points and 15 rebounds and the Chicago Sky beat the Seattle Storm 64-57 Sunday night.
Jia Perkins added 13 points and Dominique Canty had 10 for Chicago (2-1), which squandered an early double-digit lead before recovering to won its second straight game and beat Seattle for the first time in seven tries.
Lauren Jackson scored 22 points for Seattle (3-2). Sue Bird scored nine on 3 of 11 shooting for the Storm, which had to mount a fourth-quarter rally after badly struggling in the first half.
Seattle, which trailed by 16 early in the second quarter, used a 12-0 run to take a 51-49 lead on Janell Burse’s layup with 6:47 left in the fourth.
Burse made another layup nearly a minute later to restore Seattle’s lead, but Chicago then scored eight straight points to go back ahead by six with 2:11 to go.
Jackson’s jumper with 1:32 remaining pulled the Storm to 59-57, but the Sky hit five free throws in the final 15 seconds to seal the win.
Playing in its fifth game in nine days, Seattle came out looking sluggish and fell behind by 15-1 late in the first quarter. The Storm had two 24-second violations and didn’t make a basket until reserve Shannon Johnson entered the game and hit a 3-pointer with 2:54 left in the first quarter.
Storm coach Brian Agler was called for a technical foul after Chicago’s Erin Thorn hit a 3-pointer. After Thorn converted the free throw, Kristi Toliver hit a 3 to give the Sky a 26-10 lead with 7:15 left in the second.
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