SEATTLE \u2014 Marina Mabrey scored 26 points and made six 3-pointers, Brittney Sykes had 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists, and Toronto beat the Seattle Storm 86-73 on Tuesday night for the Tempo’s first victory in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Toronto went on an 18-6 run in the third quarter to take a 65-56 lead, with Mabrey and Maria Conde combining for 14 points in the period. Then Mabrey scored eight points in the opening six minutes of the fourth, including two 3-pointers about a minute apart \u2014 the latter from near the logo \u2014 for an 81-71 lead.<\/p>\n
Seattle only made one field goal in the final six minutes.<\/p>\n
Conde finished with 16 points off the bench, and rookie Kiki Rice, the Tempo\u2019s first-round draft pick, scored 12 for Toronto (1-1).<\/p>\n
Dominique Malonga led Seattle (1-2) with 21 points and seven rebounds. Stefanie Dolson added 16 points, and Jade Melbourne had 14 points and six assists off the bench. Flau\u2019jae Johnson, the No. 8 pick in the WNBA draft, scored seven points on 2-of-7 shooting in 29 minutes.<\/p>\n
Seattle led 45-44 at halftime behind 14 points from Malonga and 10 apiece by Dolson and Melbourne. <\/p>\n
The Storm made 50% of their field goals in the first half, including 6 of 13 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Seattle concludes its three-game trip at Indiana on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Toronto goes on the road for back-to-back games against Los Angeles, with the first one on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Marina Mabrey scored 26 points and made six 3-pointers, Brittney Sykes had 18 points, eight rebounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-641833","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\/641833","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=641833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}