{"id":732874,"date":"2026-06-29T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732874\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:08:13","slug":"charles-ties-season-high-with-13-points-as-valkyries-down-liberty-76-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732874\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles ties season high with 13 points as Valkyries down Liberty 76-67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Kaila Charles tied a season high with 13 points off the bench and the Golden State Valkyries held the New York Liberty to their lowest-scoring first half of the season en route to a 76-67 victory on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kayla Thornton added 11 points, while Janelle Salaun and Cecilia Zandalasini each scored 10 for Golden State (13-7), whose reserves outscored New York\u2019s 39-11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jonquel Jones led New York (12-8) with 21 points and seven rebounds. Breanna Stewart added 15 points and Sabrina Ionescu had nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Golden State, which led 41-29 at halftime, stretched its advantage to 64-48 after three quarters before New York held the Valkyries to 12 points in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ionescu was scoreless in the first half \u2014 her fourth zero-point half of the season. She finished 3 for 10 from the field and 2 for 6 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Golden State has won three games in a row at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Liberty: Host the Las Vegas Aces on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Valkyries: Visit the Atlanta Dream on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AP WNBA: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Kaila Charles tied a season high with 13 points off the bench and the Golden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[41609,99,434,13017],"class_list":["post-732874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-nwsl-soccer","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732874","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=732874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}