June 24, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA; The Dallas Wings Guard Paige Bukers (5) controls the ball as the Atlanta Dream Guard Maya Caldwell (33) rescues during the first half at the college park center. Compulsory Credit: Chris Jones-Imgon Picture Arike Ogunbowale put in 21 points and Dalus got a huge boost from its store as the wings defeated Atlanta Dream 68-55 in Arlington, Texas in the third quarter on Tuesday.
Wings (4–12) led only two on the halftime, but scoring 10 runs in the fourth quarter. Three free throw by Aziaha James with 7:08 increased the wings lead to 11. With 5:29, the jumper of Paigi Beucers pushed the score to 62–49 and Dallas was able to move home from there.
Dallas won for the third time in its last four competitions, while The Dream (10-5) scratched the two-game winning streak. Wings bench players dropped their Atlanta counterparts from 21-5.
Bueckers added 12 points, ended with James 11 and Lee Euru rated 10 points for 10 points and feathers-high 15 rebounds. Dallas played his second direct game without the injured Dijinai Carrington, without its third major scorer.
Rhine Howard of Atlanta led all scorers with 23 points and added eight rebounds. Elisha Gray had 13 points and Broni Jones hit for 12. Atlanta shot only 23.4 percent from the floor.
The game went back and forth in the first quarter before the wings were removed from the last 11 points of this period, leapforn with a reduction of 10–8 on the 2:53 mark entered the second quarter to 19–10 in the second quarter.
Dallas brought his profit to 10 when Ogunbole canned a jumper with 3:58 to play in the first half. But Sapna returned, which is half over with 12–4 runs, left a pair of free throw from Jones to draw within 31–29 in a break with 32 seconds.
Howard led all the scorers before Haftime with a dozen points, while Dallas was headed with each eight points from Beukers, Ogunbole and Yuru. Neither the team shot well in the first half, with 37 out of 9 (24.3 percent), while Wings shot 34.1 percent (13 out of 26).
Atlanta rushed its deficit to third place, before the wings shut down the upcoming nine points, a bucket was punched by a bucket, so that their profit increased by 40–30. The dream did not find more than five close to the rest of the period, and Dallas took a 50–40 lead in the last quarter.
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