The Golden State Valkyries purpose to usage their antiaircraft prowess to vault them to a team-record sixth consecutive triumph Wednesday nighttime erstwhile they sojourn the Toronto Tempo.
Jul 7, 2026 at 6:08 p.m. ET • 2 min read
The Golden State Valkyries purpose to usage their antiaircraft prowess to vault them to a team-record sixth consecutive triumph Wednesday nighttime erstwhile they sojourn the Toronto Tempo.
The Valkyries (15-7) tied their franchise-best winning streak of 5 aft defeating the Washington Mystics 62-49 Monday successful the 2nd of 5 consecutive connected the road.
The Tempo (9-11) person dropped 2 consecutive aft their 89-76 location nonaccomplishment to the Dallas Wings connected Sunday.
The 49 points scored by Washington is the lowest constituent full by a WNBA squad this season. Golden State held the Mystics to 16 points successful the 2nd half.
"We've been talking a batch astir our defence and however we person to trust connected our defence each night, and truthful successful the 2nd fractional we locked successful connected the crippled plan," Valkyries manager Natalie Nakase said. "We allowed 22 overgarment points successful the archetypal half, and past it took different step."
Reserve Kaitlyn Chen led Golden State successful scoring with 14 points. Kiah Stokes added six points, 9 rebounds, 3 blocked shots and 1 steal.
"Our defence is thing that's each effort and benignant of a intelligence thing," Chen said. "So it's thing that you tin power and we instrumentality pridefulness successful our defense. It's thing that we enactment each our absorption into each crippled and if we can't score, they can't score."
Said Nakase: "We created 17 full turnovers for 14 points. That's attraction to item successful presumption of our defense."
The Tempo had their apical scorer, Marina Mabrey, who averages 21.1 points, backmost connected Sunday aft she was a precocious scratch from the erstwhile crippled with cervix spasms. She had 19 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
The Tempo had different precocious scratch Sunday, however, erstwhile Julie Allemand could not play due to the fact that of a near ankle injury. She leads the squad with 5.1 assists and 1.6 steals per game.
Without Allemand and Kiki Rice, who has a sprained near ankle, the Tempo lacked a existent constituent guard.
"I don't similar these surprises conscionable earlier the game," Tempo manager Sandy Brondello. "It benignant of wounded america due to the fact that we had nary constituent guards, and you could archer retired there."
Nyara Sabally had 14 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists against the Wings, Isabelle Harrison added 13 points, reserve Kia Nurse contributed 12 points and Maria Conde had 3 points and 10 rebounds.
"We had to spell a spot of a constituent defender by committee today," Nurse said. "Ultimately, we hole for games the aforesaid mode each azygous day, and whoever is oregon isn't out, you can't truly enactment excessively overmuch banal into it."
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