SPARKS LIGHT UP SINKING LIBERTY; STRONG DEFENSE STYMIES N.Y.Byline: Daily News Wire Services For the record, the crowd of 16,944 at Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference on Tuesday night to watch the WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego game between the New York Liberty The New York Liberty is a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in New York City. They are one of the eight original WNBA teams that began to see action in 1997, as well one of the most successful teams in WNBA history. and the Sparks was the second largest at a women's pro basketball game in this country. What it saw was the Sparks emerge with a victory they had to have 67-50. It was the first triumph for the visitors in three meetings between the two. As a result, the winners (9-12) remained in contention in the Western Division race by pulling to within a game and a half of first-place Phoenix. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (15-5), which self-destructed with a 30-percent shooting effort, still leads the East. However, the margin slipped to 2-1/2 games over second-place Houston. ``Our defense consisted of four things: defense, box out, run the floor and run the clock,'' said Sparks coach Julie Rousseau. ``It didn't matter what the game plan was, if we were going to come out and execute, we were going to come away with a victory.'' New York briefly led by one point several times in the first half, but the rest of the night belonged to the Sparks, particularly guard Tamecka Dixon. Dixon, a rookie from nearby Linden, N.J., who was an All-American at Kansas last season, made a slew of slashing drives to the basket for 16 points. That total was matched by teammate Penny Toler Penny Toler (born March 24, 1966) was a Women's National Basketball Association basketball player. She is currently the general manager of the Los Angeles Sparks. College years Toler attended Long Beach State and was a All-American basketball player. . Lisa Leslie ``The difference between tonight and the last time we were here is that New York always had an answer the last time,'' Dixon said. Questions continued over the Liberty, particularly about former Connecticut star Rebecca Lobo Rebecca Rose Lobo (born October 6 1973 in Southwick, Massachusetts) is an American television basketball analyst and a former player in the professional Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. . She suffered through another miserable shooting effort. Tuesday night she was 2 for 14 for four points, although she did grab 10 rebounds. Houston 76, Cleveland 66: Cynthia Cooper, the leading scorer in the WNBA, had 30 points as the visiting Comets snapped Cleveland's eight-game winning streak. Cooper was 8 of 13 from the field, including 4 of 6 from 3-point range, and made all but one of 11 free throws. |
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