There was nothing at stake in Wednesday night's matchup between the two worst teams in the WNBA but tempers still flared midway through the second quarter of the Connecticut Sun's 71-62 win over the Chicago Sky, leading to ejections for Rebecca Allen , Ariel Atkins and Bria Hartley .

The Sky were hoping to cut into a six-point deficit with just under seven minutes to play in the second, but Maddy Westbeld's 3-pointer did not go down. What should have been an innocuous play turned physical when Hartley and Allen got tangled up in pursuit of the rebound. Atkins then came charging in and everyone had to be separated by officials, coaches and security personnel.

"Yeah, it was unfortunate," Sky coach Tyler Marsh said of the incident. "Things like that have a tendancy to happen when th

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