Kahleah Copper finished with 30 points and Lexi Held had 17 points while making a career-high five 3-pointers in the Phoenix Mercury’s 90-67 win over the visiting Seattle Storm on Thursday.

Phoenix (8-13) has achieved its first three-game winning streak of the season.

Seattle (5-16) had its two-game winning streak snapped.

The Storm are 0-3 against Phoenix and 0-11 against Western Conference teams this season.

Phoenix’s Alyssa Thomas returned from her one-game suspension issued by the WNBA for planting a fist on Caitlin Clark’s neck in the Mercury’s win at Indiana last week. Thomas had a near triple-double on Thursday with nine points, nine assists and 13 rebounds.

Valeriane Ayayi added 18 points for the Mercury.

Seattle was led by Natisha Hiedeman and Awa Fam, both of whom had 13 points. Flau’jae Johnson and Jade Melbourne each posted 11 points.

Phoenix did not trail again after going ahead 5-4 with 8:46 left in the first quarter on an Ayayi 3-pointer.

The hosts took a 55-36 halftime lead behind 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the field by Copper.

Ayayi had 13 points despite picking up three fouls and sitting for more than six minutes in the half.

Phoenix led by as many as 26 points in the third quarter, and Seattle could get no closer than 10 points in the second half.

The Mercury recorded 23 assists on their 33 made field goals, and they outrebounded Seattle 40-29.

Phoenix’s DeWanna Bonner, who had eight rebounds, secured the seventh spot on the WNBA’s all-time rebound list with her sixth board of the night. She ended the game with 3,310 for her career, three more than Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie.

The starting lineups for both teams dominated the scoring with Phoenix’s reserves scoring only 10 points and Seattle’s bench finishing with 14.

Seattle starters Johnson, Fam, Dominique Malonga, Hiedeman and Melbourne had 53 points, but the team struggled from the field, shooting 41.9% while committing 13 turnovers.

The Mercury shot 45.2% from the floor and gave the ball away 11 times.

Phoenix has won four of its last five after losing 10 of 12 games.

Seattle had won two straight after enduring a franchise-record 11 straight games.

–Field Level Media

Bryce Miller took a no-hitter into the seventh inning as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels 1-0 Thursday night to complete a three-game sweep of their American League West rivals.

Cal Raleigh drew a bases-loaded walk off Angels starter Walbert Urena (5-7) with two outs in the bottom of the sixth to score the game’s lone run.

Miller (4-2) allowed two hits, didn’t walk a batter and struck out eight after the right-hander had lost his previous two starts.

Neither team had a hit until Seattle’s J.P. Crawford led off the bottom of the sixth with a double into right-center field. Dominic Canzone and Randy Arozarena drew one-out walks before Urena struck out Josh Naylor on three pitches. Urena got ahead 0-2 in the count to Raleigh before last season’s home-run champ rebounded to draw a walk.

The Angels’ only baserunner through six innings came on a throwing error by third baseman Crawford after a grounder by Denzer Guzman with two outs in the fourth.

Los Angeles’ first hit came when Nolan Schanuel hit a bloop nearly off his hands into shallow right leading off the seventh, the ball falling just past the reach of second baseman Cole Young and in front of sliding right fielder Weston Wilson. Guzman followed with a fly ball down the right-field line that went off the glove of a diving Wilson, putting runners at first and second.

Miller struck out Jorge Soler, got Wade Meckler to fly out to center field and got Jo Adell to ground into a force out to get out of the jam.

Mariners reliever Eduard Bazardo retired the side in order in the eighth with two strikeouts and closer Andres Munoz worked the ninth for his 16th save of the season.

Munoz issued a leadoff walk to Zach Neto before picking him off first base. Schanuel lined a single to center and Soler grounded a two-out single to left, putting runners at first and second. Munoz got Meckler to ground out to short to end the game.

The Mariners threatened in the first, loading the bases with one out on a walk, error and hit by pitch, before Urena got Josh Naylor to hit into an inning-ending double play.

Urena gave up one run on one hit over 5 2/3 innings. The righty walked four, hit two batters with pitches and fanned six.

Mariners outfielders Julio Rodriguez and Victor Robles both left the game due to injuries. Rodriguez was hit in the back of the helmet by an errant throw from first baseman Schanuel while running the bases in the first inning and Robles, who replaced Rodriguez in the third, was hit by a pitch in the right wrist/forearm area by a 97.9 mph Urena sinker and exited in the fifth.

–Field Level Media

Paige Bueckers scored a game-high 25 points and Jessica Shepard made two key free throws in the final seconds as the Dallas Wings came back from 11 points down in the fourth quarter to beat the Connecticut Sun 86-83 on Thursday in Hartford, Conn.

The Sun led by 13 points in the second quarter and by eight at halftime but by just seven after an uneven third period. Dallas closed within 72-68 on Azzi Fudd’s jumper with 5:05 to play and within 74-72 on a layup by Bueckers with 3:08 left.

Dallas (12-8) tied the game at 78 on Li Yueru’s 3-pointer with 1:51 remaining and then took the lead on a three-point play by Bueckers with 1:17 to play.

The Sun responded with a basket and free throw by Aaliyah Edwards on the ensuing possession that tied the game again. Fudd and Edwards traded buckets before Bueckers converted 1 of 2 free-throw chances with 25.9 seconds left to put the Wings up by a point.

The Sun’s Leila Lacan missed a contested jumper in the lane with five seconds left, and the rebound was taken by Shepard, who was fouled and made both free throws with three seconds to play.

Connecticut could not get off a 3-point attempt in the final seconds.

Shepard finished with 14 points while Alanna Smith added 11 for Dallas, which snapped a two-game losing streak.

Lacan led the Sun (4-16) with 18 points. Charlisse Leger-Walker had 14 points, Brittney Griner amassed 13 points and 11 rebounds, and Edwards and Olivia Nelson-Ododa scored 11 points apiece as Connecticut had a two-game winning streak snapped.

The Sun racked up the final seven points in the first period to take a 22-16 lead after 10 minutes of play. Connecticut expanded its advantage to 32-20 after a three-point play from Kennedy Burke with 5:23 left in the second quarter, but Bueckers’ floater with 42 seconds remaining in the first half allowed the Wings to pull to within 43-35 at the break.

Bueckers and Lacan scored 12 points each to lead their respective teams before halftime.

Griner’s turnaround jumper four minutes into the third quarter rebuilt the Sun’s lead to 14 points.

–Field Level Media