{"id":149668,"date":"2025-08-16T05:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149668\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:03:15","slug":"chicago-sky-lose-to-golden-state-valkyries-90-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149668\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky lose to Golden State Valkyries 90-59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cecilia Zandalasini scored a career-high 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting, and the expansion Golden State Valkyries beat the Chicago Sky 90-59 on Friday night for their franchise-record fourth consecutive win.<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries (18-15) broke the WNBA record for wins by an expansion team, besting the mark of 17 set by the 1998 Detroit Shock in a 30-game season.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky (8-25) have lost four in a row and 12 of their last 13. The Sky, who trailed 42-40 at the half, scored only 19 points in the third and fourth quarters combined.<\/p>\n<p>Janelle Sala\u00fcn had 15 points, and Iliana Rupert hit 4 of 4 from 3-point range and finished with 14 for the Valkyries. Tiffany Hayes scored 13 and Veronica Burton added 11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/08\/06\/rachel-banham-chicago-sky-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Banham<\/a> led the Sky with 15 points, Kamilla Cardoso scored 14 and Elizabeth Williams 10.<\/p>\n<p>Banham hit a 3-pointer that made it 44-all a little more than a minute into the second half, but the Valkyries scored 15 of the next 17 points to take control. The Sky missed 11 consecutive field-goal attempts and committed four turnovers, including a shot-clock violation, in a span of about 6\u00bd minutes to close the third quarter and open the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries, who hit a season-high 15 3-pointers Wednesday in an 88-83 win over the Washington Mystics, made 7 of 10 from behind the arc in the first quarter and finished 14 of 27.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/08\/13\/angel-reese-chicago-sky-injury-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky forward Angel Reese<\/a> missed her seventh consecutive game with a back injury. The Sky are 1-10 in games she has missed this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries, who beat the Sky 83-78 on June 27, swept the regular-season series.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky play the Seattle Storm at Winstrust Arena on Tuesday. The Valkyries play host to the Atlanta Dream on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cecilia Zandalasini scored a career-high 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting, and the expansion Golden State Valkyries beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[1496,960,1497,7900,2473,5386,1818,1499,10591],"class_list":{"0":"post-149668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-angel-reese","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-sky","11":"tag-elizabeth-williams","12":"tag-golden-state-valkyries","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-kamilla-cardoso","16":"tag-rachel-banham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115036697721851671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}