Gray, Parker power Sparks

ST. PAUL, Minn. >> Chelsea Gray scored 23 points and Candace Parker added 19 points and 10 rebounds Friday night to lead the Sparks to a 70-64 victory over the Minnesota Lynx.

Minnesota’s Rebekkah Brunson caught Maya Moore’s airball and put it in to get the Lynx within 66-63 with 49.3 seconds left. Nneka Ogwumike answered with a baseline jumper for her first basket of the game with 28 seconds left.

Sylvia Fowles missed a shot in the lane and Gray made two free throws with 14.6 seconds remaining for a seven-point lead.

Odyssey Sims added 14 points for Los Angeles (19-7), and Ogwumike scored three points to reach 3,000 for her career.

Fowles had 17 points and 13 rebounds for Minnesota (21-4). Brunson added 14 points and nine rebounds, and Moore scored 12.

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