{"id":761576,"date":"2026-06-26T02:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761576\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:56:18","slug":"toronto-tempos-marina-mabrey-ties-wnba-scoring-record-with-53-points-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761576\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo\u2019s Marina Mabrey ties WNBA scoring record with 53 points | WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Marina Mabrey matched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/wnba\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> single-game scoring record with 53 points to help the Toronto Tempo rout the Los Angeles Sparks 125-97 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Mabrey tied the mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/jul\/17\/liz-cambage-wnba-scoring-record\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set by Liz Cambage for Dallas<\/a> against New York on 17 July 2018, and matched by A\u2019ja Wilson for Las Vegas at Atlanta on 22 August 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">When she checked out of the game with a minute remaining, Tempo fans briefly booed before erupting into cheers in acknowledgement of her big night. The clock ticked down to zero with chants of \u201cWe Want Mabrey! We Want Mabrey!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Mabrey was 17 of 28 from the field, hitting 9 of 18 three-pointers, and made 10 of 12 free throws. The 29-year-old former Notre Dame star shattered the expansion team\u2019s previous high of 38 points done twice by Brittney Sykes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Julie Allemand added 13 points and 14 assists for Toronto in the highest-score game in the team\u2019s short history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Nneka Ogwumike and Dearica Hamby led the Sparks with 21 points apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Toronto climbed back to .500 at 9-9, and Los Angeles fell to 8-9.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-8\" class=\"dcr-76akua\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter | Weekly for the 2026 WNBA season<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-vf9hps\">Sign up to WNBA 30<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1r7my33\">A limited run women\u2019s basketball newsletter dedicated to the league\u2019s historic 30th season. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wnba_newsletter_(35eacf7cad976602e57c2c59c926a2575e382de6)_(4).jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-xiq31o\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-8\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-76akua\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Tempo opened a nine-game homestand that includes two games at Montreal\u2019s Bell Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marina Mabrey matched the WNBA single-game scoring record with 53 points to help the Toronto Tempo rout the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-761576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761576","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=761576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}