UNCASVILLE—Tina Charles no longer has the photo of Sylvia Fowles that she kept in her college locker, a reminder of being dominated by the former LSU center in the 2007 NCAA tournament.The two met for the first time as professionals on Saturday, and this time it was Charles who took charge, scoring 17 points and pulling down 10 rebounds in her WNBA debut to lead the Connecticut Sun to a 74-61 victory over Fowles and the Sky. Charles scored her first WNBA basket on a hook shot over Fowles with 6:18 left in the first quarter.Fowles, who scored six of the Sky’s first eight points, finished with 16 points and nine rebounds and said she enjoys playing against Charles.Anete Jekabsone-Zogota led the Sun with 18 points, hitting four of her six 3-point shots.Shameka Christon and Jia Perkins each had 11 points for the Sky.Connecticut led by as many as 19 in the first half, before Fowles led the Sky on an 11-0 run to cut the deficit to 38-30.But Connecticut pulled away for good on a 16-2 third-quarter run. That was sparked by another rookie, former Nebraska star Kelsey Griffin, who took two charges from Fowles.Griffin finished with eight points and 10 rebounds. A 3-pointer by Tan White made the lead 58-39 late in the third quarter. The Sun started the fourth quarter with a 12-0 run and it was 72-43 before they eased up. Kara Lawson had 10 points, three on a half-court shot at the first-quarter buzzer that gave the Sun a 22-14 lead.The Sun finished last season at 16-18, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2002. In response, the team revamped the lineup in the offseason. They secured the pick for Charles and Montgomery in a January deal that sent All-Star Lindsay Whalen to the Minnesota Lynx.Another trade on draft day allowed to Sun to pick up Griffin with the draft’s third pick. Lawson came over as a free agent and the Sun picked up her former teammate DeMya Walker in the dispersal draft when the Sacramento Monarchs folded.Walker was not a factor in the opener, getting three early fouls and finishing with just four points.Two of the Sun’s top players from last year will miss the first few games this season. Asjha Jones, who averaged almost 17 points a game, is sidelined after undergoing surgery in February on her left Achilles’ tendon. Post player Sandrine Gruda is in Europe with the French national team until June.The Sky seemed to have trouble finding a scorer to replace Candice Dupree, who was sent to Phoenix in the offseason in a three-team deal that gave them Christon and Cathrine Kraayeveld from New York.