{"id":990,"date":"2026-05-23T06:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:34:32","slug":"zia-cooke-scores-career-high-25-points-as-seattle-storm-beat-the-connecticut-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Zia Cooke scores career-high 25 points as Seattle Storm beat the Connecticut Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>SEATTLE \u2014 Zia Cooke scored 16 of her career-high 25 points in the first half, rookie Flau\u2019jae Johnson had her best game of the season, and the Seattle Storm beat the Connecticut Sun 77-59 on Friday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=988\">Legacy\u2019s five-game unbeaten streak ends as Seattle Reign win Boston\u2019s Rhode Island debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Johnson, the No. 8 pick in the recent WNBA draft, had 17 points, seven rebounds, and five assists, all season bests. Natisha Hiedeman added 11 points for the Storm (2-4), who avenged a last-second loss to the Sun on Wednesday. Seattle won 89-82 at Connecticut in the second game of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Diamond Miller had 13 points for Connecticut (1-6) and Aaliyah Edwards scored 10. Brittney Griner missed her fourth straight game with a rib injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Legacy\u2019s five-game unbeaten streak ends as Seattle Reign win Boston\u2019s Rhode Island debut<\/div>\n<p><span>Seattle, which trailed 21-19 after one quarter, took a 37-28 lead at halftime as Cooke outscored the Sun in the second quarter 8-7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Storm led by 16 in the third quarter but the Sun cut the deficit to seven points when they opened the fourth with a 3-pointer. Cooke made a free throw and Johnson hit a 3-pointer and the Sun never cut the deficit to single digits after that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Sun made nine baskets in the first quarter and totaled 11 over the final three quarters, finishing at 35 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=986\">Celtics\u2019 Derrick White makes NBA All-Defensive first team for first time<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Storm were short-handed in the front court with Dominique Malonga missing her third straight game in concussion protocol. Veteran Ezi Magbegor has yet to play and Awa Fam, the recent No. 3 pick, just arrived in Seattle from Spain. There has been no announcement when Fam, who helped Valencia win the Spanish League championship, would make her debut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To help Seattle, Joyner Holmes was signed earlier in the day and she had two points, five rebounds, and three blocks in 15 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4>Up next<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Sun: At Golden State on Monday for the third game of a five-game western road trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Storm: Stay home for a second straight two-game set with Washington beginning Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=984\">Republicans are rushing to redraw districts before midterms. Here\u2019s where things stand.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun have lost six of their first seven games of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zia Cooke scores career-high 25 points as Seattle Storm beat the Connecticut Sun - Boston Relocation Insider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=990\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zia Cooke scores career-high 25 points as Seattle Storm beat the Connecticut Sun - 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