The Toronto Tempo will try to win their second game in a row as they take on the Connecticut Sun on Wednesday night.
The Tempo are 1-1 in the Commissioner’s Cup in-season tournament and will try to improve their standings in another tournament matchup tonight.
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The Tempo (6-5) are coming off an impressive 85-68 victory over the Chicago Sky on Sunday night. Isabelle Harrison made her season debut after sustaining a dislocated thumb during training camp and made an immediate impact. The power forward played 17 minutes, scoring 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting while adding six rebounds, two assists, and one steal in the win.
“I think that really definitely got my momentum going,” Harrison said of her first shot. “I really love our offence, because we have the spacing, so anyone is just capable of just being able to shoot that shot.”
“It felt really good, and it felt good to have the crowd behind me and cheering me on, like I’ve been wanting from day one.”
Toronto’s leading scorer Brittney Sykes poured in 25 points on Sunday, adding seven rebounds and three assists in the blowout win. She is now averaging a career-high 20.1 points per game.
It is the first meeting between the Tempo and Sun (2-11) this season, and the first time guard Marina Mabrey will take on her former team in a Tempo uniform.
The 29-year-old sharpshooter spent the past two seasons in Connecticut, where she averaged 14.6 points per game. The Sun left her unprotected in the expansion draft, where Toronto selected her with the sixth pick.
The Sun sit last in the WNBA and have lost six of their past seven games, including three in a row.
Canadian Aaliyah Edwards returned to the Sun lineup in their 89-80 loss to the New York Liberty on Monday, scoring 15 points and grabbing five rebounds. The Toronto native is averaging a career-high 9.0 points in seven games this season, her first full year with the Sun.
