Pierson Helps Liberty End Three-Game Skid Plenette Pierson scored 9 of her 22 points in the fourth quarter as the host Liberty recovered after giving up nearly all of a 19-point lead in the third quarter and beat the Seattle Storm, 66-57. Cappie Pondexter had 13 points for the Liberty, who had lost three straight and five of their last six. Tina Thompson scored 13 points and Tanisha Wright added 12 for the Storm, losers of five of their last six. After Toni Young's jumper in the opening possession of the third quarter extended the Liberty's lead to 38-19, the Storm went on a 20-2 run to pull within a point on Alysha Clark's layup with 2 minutes 58 seconds remaining in the period. Pondexter made two free throws 14 seconds later, and Pierson followed with a bank shot less than 30 seconds later to push the lead back to 5. ■ The free-agent guard Devin Harris is headed back to the Dallas Mavericks, nine years after starting his career with them.