San Antonio – Maya Moore and the Lynx both heated up in the third quarter Friday night.
Moore surpassed 3,000 career points, scoring 18 points as the Lynx routed San Antonio 78-61 at the Freeman Coliseum largely on a 19-0 run shortly after halftime.
Moore scored 10 points in the pivotal third quarter, which began with the Stars up by a point. By the time it ended, the Lynx had outscored them 25-9 to build a 62-47 lead.
The victory ended the Lynx's two-game losing streak and gave the first-place team in the West a 4-0 regular-season sweep of the Stars. In each of those games, the Lynx (19-8) held San Antonio (7-20) under 40 percent shooting.
Moore's milestone came on a three-pointer with 4 minutes, 4 seconds left in the third quarter, a three that gave the Lynx a 50-40 lead. She also had seven assists and six rebounds. Those rebounds moved her ahead of Tamika Raymond for second place on the franchise's all-time list with 1,034. The two were tied.
"I thought we played with a great pace, great energy," Moore said. "After cleaning up our offense from the first half to the second half, I thought we had a really great flow."
Two Lynx players had double-doubles: center Sylvia Fowles had 16 points and 12 rebounds while point guard Lindsay Whalen had 12 points and 10 assists. Anna Cruz — starting for Seimone Augustus, who didn't make the trip after injuring her right foot in Wednesday's loss to Washington — added 14 points.
Rebekkah Brunson, the fifth Lynx starter, had nine points and 11 rebounds.
