{"id":681280,"date":"2026-05-20T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/681280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:00:12","slug":"sykes-mabrey-combine-for-61-as-tempo-beat-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/681280\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes, Mabrey combine for 61 as Tempo beat Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Brittney Sykes had 31 points, Marina Mabrey added 30 points and six 3-pointers, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/toronto-tempo\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-tempo\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Tempo<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix-mercury\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"phoenix-mercury\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> 98-90 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto created some separation by starting the fourth quarter on a 12-4 run to take an 85-78 lead. Then Maria Conde and Kiki Rice each made a shot in the lane, sandwiched around a Phoenix turnover, to give the Tempo a 93-86 lead with 2:32 left.<\/p>\n<p>Mabrey sank her sixth 3-pointer with 1:25 left from the corner to make it 96-90.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto finished with a season-high 15 makes from behind the arc, while Phoenix went 4 of 22.<\/p>\n<p>Kahleah Copper scored 18 points and Alyssa Thomas had 17 points for Phoenix (2-3). DeWanna Bonner scored 13 on 4-of-11 shooting and Jovana Nogic also scored 13. Natasha Mack had 12 points and 10 rebounds before leaving late in the third quarter after a hard fall.<\/p>\n<p>Rice had 15 points and Laura Juskaite added 10 for Toronto (3-2). Sykes, who was coming off a career-high 38 points in a 106-96 victory over Los Angeles on Sunday, went 10 of 19 from the field with four 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Mabrey made her third 3-pointer of the first half with 20.8 seconds left to give Toronto a 45-44 lead. Mabrey finished the half with 15 points and Sykes added 14, while the rest of their teammates went 5 of 16 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto concludes a four-game road trip at Minnesota on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix ends a four-game homestand on Thursday against Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Brittney Sykes had 31 points, Marina Mabrey added 30 points and six 3-pointers, and the Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-681280","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\/681280","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=681280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}