here<\/a>.<\/p>\nBelow, we’ll track the evening’s scores and top highlights as a number of women advanced to Friday’s second round.<\/p>\n
Chelsea Gray def. Natasha Cloud, 11-10<\/p>\n
Gray drained all three of her attempts from deep in the comeback win, fending off Cloud’s upset attempt.<\/p>\n
Breanna Stewart def. Li Yueru, 11-6<\/p>\n
A workmanlike victory from Stewart, who shot 5-of-8 from the field in the win. She’ll face Aliyah Boston in the second round.<\/p>\n
Sonia Citron def. Marina Mabrey, 12-10<\/p>\n
Citron raced out to a 5-0 lead, Mabrey promptly scored the next 10 points and Citron responded with seven unanswered points in a see-saw battle.<\/p>\n
Kelsey Mitchell def. Rachel Banham, 12-3<\/p>\n
No issues for the top seed, who hit both of her three-point attempts and easily moved on to the next round.<\/p>\n
Arike Ogunbowale def. Brittney Sykes, 11-2<\/p>\n
Ogunbowale jumped out to a 9-0 lead and never looked back, missing just one shot in a dominant victory.<\/p>\n
Aaliyah Edwards def. Dominique Malonga, 11-8<\/p>\n
Malonga will want this one back after committing four turnovers in an 11-8 loss. She held Edwards to just 33.3 percent shooting (1-for-4 beyond the arc as well) but wasn’t able to finish the job despite opening the game on a 6-0 run. <\/p>\n
Rae Burrell def. Rhyne Howard, 11-8<\/p>\n
Burrell erased a seven-point deficit against Howard, finishing the game on an 11-1 run. She’ll face Citron in the second round.<\/p>\n
Paige Bueckers def. Kate Martin, 12-5<\/p>\n
No issues for the top seed in Pod B, who will face WNBA teammate Ogunbowale in the second round after defeating her Unrivaled teammate in the first round.<\/p>\n
Shakira Austin def. Dearica Hamby, 12-10<\/p>\n
This was a battle of attrition, as Austin blocked two shots and pulled down 10 boards in a hard-fought victory over Hamby. She’ll face Edwards in the second round.<\/p>\n
Veronica Burton def. Courtney Williams, 11-0<\/p>\n
Jackie Young def. Aziaha James, 12-4<\/p>\n
Young ended the game on an 8-0 run, pulling down four offensive boards in the process. She’ll face Gray in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrivaled held the first round of its 1-on-1 tournament Wednesday night, with some of the top women’s basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-467540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}