Shock finish first Tulsa season with rare win, beating Sky 84-71
TULSA, Okla. -- Tiffany Jackson scored 17 points, former Olympic sprinter Marion Jones finished her rookie season with a career-high 14 points and the Tulsa Shock snapped a six-game losing streak Saturday night by beating the Chicago Sky 84-71.
The Shock, who relocated from Detroit in the offseason, had lost 25 of their last 27 games before finishing their first season in Tulsa with a victory.
Jones made her first career start and made a fast-break layup at the end of the third quarter to put the Shock up 57-56.
Ivory Latta and Shanna Crossley had tiebreaking 3-pointers to put Tulsa back ahead in the fourth quarter, and the Shock finished the game on a 20-7 spurt.
Sylvia Fowles led Chicago with 16 points.
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