Sky drops fourth straight in 81-77 loss to Sparks

Posted August 04, 2010 11:00 pm

LOS ANGELES - DeLisha Milton-Jones scored 22 points, and Kristi Toliver added 12 of her 17 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Los Angeles Sparks to a 81-77 victory over the Chicago Sky on Wednesday night.

Jia Perkins scored 16 points for the Sky (12-16), which lost its fourth straight and fifth in six games. Tamera Young added 14 points, and Sylvia Fowles had 12 points and 11 rebounds.

Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton had career highs of 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Sparks (9-17), who moved within a half-game of fourth-place Minnesota in the race for the final Western Conference playoff spot with eight games left.

Marie Ferdinand-Harris scored 15 points for Los Angeles, and Ticha Penicheiro added a season-high 15 assists, 1 shy of the WNBA single-game record.

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