{"id":58365,"date":"2025-08-10T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58365\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:16:07","slug":"burton-zandalasini-lead-valkyries-past-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58365\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton, Zandalasini lead Valkyries past Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Veronica Burton scored 16 points, Cecilia Zandalasini scored 14 before halftime and the Golden State Valkyries moved a game ahead of Los Angeles in the Western Conference beating the Sparks 72-59 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Janelle Salaun scored 11 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Golden State (15-15). Zandalasini scored 14 points in the first half on 5-for-6 shooting including 4-for-5 from three-point range and missed her only shot attempt after halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Dearica Hamby scored 15 points for Los Angeles (14-16), and Julie Allemand and reserve Rae Burrell each scored 10.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State built a 19-14 lead after one quarter, and the Valkyries took advantage of a nine-point quarter by Los Angeles for a 33-23 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles started the third with a 7-0 run with a pair of foul shots and a short shot by Kelsey Plum and a three-pointer by Hamby. Golden State extended its lead to 41-32 before the Sparks rallied again to get within 43-40 but never got closer.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State sealed the win outscoring the Sparks 12-5 over the first six minutes of the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries won the regular-season series 3-1 over Los Angeles and currently hold the eighth and final playoff spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Veronica Burton scored 16 points, Cecilia Zandalasini scored 14 before halftime and the Golden State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-58365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}