{"id":800439,"date":"2026-08-03T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800439\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:31:08","slug":"valkyries-rout-shorthanded-toronto-tempo-to-snap-two-game-losing-streak-the-press-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800439\/","title":{"rendered":"Valkyries rout shorthanded Toronto Tempo to snap two-game losing streak \u2013 The Press Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Golden State Valkyries<\/a> are back in the win column.<\/p>\n

Golden State<\/a> had lost two games in a row<\/a> coming into Sunday night\u2019s matchup with the Toronto Tempo, but the Valkyries overcame a second-half deficit to win 96-79. The Valkyries had won a franchise-record nine in a row before the consecutive losses.<\/p>\n

But facing a Toronto team that was missing All-Star Marina Mabrey and recent trade acquisition Aneesah Morrow, Golden State shook off a midgame slump to seal the victory late to move into a tie with Las Vegas for the second-best record in the WNBA behind Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Sunday marked the return of Gabby Williams, who started the All-Star game a week ago but was held out of the Valkyries\u2019 loss Wednesday at Phoenix for \u201creconditioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Valkyries\u2019 Janelle Salaun led all scorers with 24 points. Veronica Burton scored 17, while Williams and Tiffany Hayes each had 15.<\/p>\n

Nyara Sabally led Toronto with 19 points. Kiki Rice scored 16 and Laura Juskaite added 15.<\/p>\n

Toronto was without its All-Star Mabrey, who missed the game with a neck injury. Recent trade acquisition Morrow also missed the game due to return-to-play conditioning.<\/p>\n

Despite being significantly shorthanded, Toronto was competitive for most of the game and held the lead for a good chunk of the second half. A late-third-quarter run put the Valkyries up 67-61 entering the fourth.<\/p>\n

Then Golden State took control down the stretch, lengthening the lead early in the fourth to ensure a comfortable final five minutes.<\/p>\n

Check back for updates to this story.<\/p>\n

Subscribe to our special Valkyries newsletter<\/a> for game analysis, scores, and everything you want to know about the team from Ballhalla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Golden State Valkyries are back in the win column. Golden State had lost two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2356,4804,99,434],"class_list":["post-800439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-california","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800439","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=800439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}