UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Sabrina Ionescu scored 36 factors, Emma Meesseman had 11 factors in her return to the WNBA and the New York Liberty snapped a four-game dropping streak with an 87-78 win over the Connecticut Solar on Sunday.
Jonquel Jones added 21 factors and 9 rebounds for the Liberty (18-10), who had been with out All-Star Breanna Stewart for a fourth-straight recreation due to a bruised knee.
Tina Charles had 17 factors and eight rebounds and Anneesah Moorow 16 factors and 9 rebounds for the the Solar (5-22), who handed the Liberty their worst lack of the season on Friday 78-62. Bria Hartley added 12 factors and Marina Mabrey 10.
Meesseman, a former finals MVP who final performed within the league in 2022 earlier than successful the EuroLeague Girls’s MVP the final three seasons, did all her injury within the second half. Ionescu had 10 rebounds for her first double-double of the season to go along with her fifth 30-point recreation as she completed a degree shy of her profession finest. She additionally surpassed 1,000 assists, the third-fastest to succeed in that milestone.
Ionescu had 16 factors of New York’s first 20 and the Liberty scored the final 9 of the primary quarter to take a 25-19 lead that they by no means relinquished. She had 20 and Jones 13 for a 45-38 lead on the half.
Meesseman obtained on the scoreboard with a pair of free throws early within the third quarter, and scored seven throughout a 9-2 surge that noticed the Liberty flip a four-point lead into the primary double-figure lead of the day, 54-43. New York took a 66-57 lead into the fourth quarter.
Initially Printed: August 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM EDT
