The Tempo were playing their second game of the pre-season after falling to the Connecticut Sun on Wednesday in Toronto.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Elizabeth Balogun paced the Tempo’s offence with 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting. The rookie forward also knocked down two of her three shots from behind the three-point arc.<\/p>\n
First-round pick Kiki Rice also reached double-digits in the loss, dropping 10 points while taking seven shots.<\/p>\n
The Tempo scored 21 points in the second quarter to take a one-point lead into halftime, but only shot 15.4 per cent from three in the second half as the Lynx were able to lock down defensively.<\/p>\n
Chechova did most of her work offensively in the second half, scoring 12 points, grabbing three rebounds and blocking two shots.<\/p>\n
With the win, Minnesota improved to 3-0 on the pre-season.<\/p>\n
Toronto will now look forward to its first regular-season contest, when it hosts the Washington Mystics on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tempo were playing their second game of the pre-season after falling to the Connecticut Sun on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-618740","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\/618740","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=618740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}