Brittney Sykes scored a career-high 38 points against her former team, rookie Kiki Rice added a career-high 19 and the expansion Toronto Tempo picked up their first ever road win in a 106-96 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks on Sunday.

Marina Mabrey scored 14 points and Kia Nurse added 10 as the Tempo (2-2) led by as many as 17 points in the second half and shot 47.5% from the floor in the game to avenge a 99-95 loss at Los Angeles on Friday.

Rice, who won an NCAA national title with UCLA last month and was the sixth overall draft pick in last month’s WNBA Draft, made her first career start in her return to Los Angeles.

Kelsey Plum scored 28 points and Dearica Hamby added 21 points with nine rebounds as the Sparks (1-3) completed their season-opening four-game homestand. Nneka Ogwumike scored 17 points and Kate Martin added 11 as Los Angeles shot 51.6% from the floor.

The teams combined to commit 59 fouls, while attempting 72 total free throws. The Tempo were 39 of 42 (92.9%) from the line, while the Sparks went 23 of 30 (76.7%). Sykes was 15 of 15 from the line after going 11 of 11 on Friday.

After falling behind 21-2 to open Friday’s game against the Sparks, the Tempo led by as many as seven points in the opening quarter Sunday and were up by 14 in the second. Toronto took a 49-40 lead into halftime behind 14 points from Sykes.

The Sparks improved their offense in the third quarter by scoring 27 points on 58.3% shooting, but the Tempo countered with 30 points of their own in the period to take a 79-67 lead into the fourth.

Toronto shot 40% from the floor in the third quarter and went 15 of 15 from the free-throw line. The Sparks were 12 of 15 from the line in the third.

A 10-3 run pulled Los Angeles within 89-83 on two free throws from Plum before Sykes answered for Toronto with five consecutive points and a 94-83 lead with 3:51 remaining as the Tempo closed out the victory.

–Field Level Media

Corbin Carroll hit two homers and drove in three runs Sunday to help the Arizona Diamondbacks post an 8-6 victory over the Colorado Rockies in Denver.

After a 105-minute weather delay to start the series finale, Michael Soroka (6-2) threw 5 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on six hits, striking out eight and walking two. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. homered and Gabriel Moreno had three hits for Arizona, which won its first road series since taking two of three from the Baltimore Orioles from April 13-15.

Michael Lorenzen (2-6) suffered his fourth straight loss for Colorado, allowing seven runs (six earned) on nine hits across 4 2/3 innings, striking out five and walking three. Willi Castro drove in two runs for the Rockies, who dropped their sixth game in eight tries.

Carroll and Geraldo Perdomo worked back-to-back two-out walks in the third before Nolan Arenado’s RBI single put Arizona ahead 1-0. Gurriel followed with a single to double the Diamondbacks’ lead.

After Moreno’s leadoff single in the fourth, Ildemaro Vargas’ RBI base hit pushed the Arizona advantage to 3-0. Carroll then crushed his sixth home run of the season, a 431-foot shot to give the visitors a five-run lead.

The Rockies got two runs back in the bottom of the fourth. TJ Rumfield, Troy Johnston and Castro laced consecutive two-out doubles to trim the deficit to 5-2.

In the fifth, Gurriel connected on his first homer of the season to push the lead to four. Moreno then singled, stole second and advanced to third on catcher Brett Sullivan’s throwing error before Jose Fernandez’s single extended Arizona’s lead back to five.

Blas Castano relieved Lorenzen after 101 pitches.

Castano allowed Carroll’s second homer of the game in the sixth, this time a 448-foot solo shot.

Against Arizona’s Brandon Pfaadt in the bottom of the eighth, Hunter Goodman singled, Rumfield was hit by a pitch and Johnston walked to load the bases with no outs. Castro’s sac fly and Jake McCarthy’s RBI single cut the Rockies’ deficit to 8-4.

Taylor Clarke then replaced Pfaadt and allowed Kyle Karros’ RBI single and Sullivan’s sac fly, pulling Colorado within two.

Paul Sewald threw a scoreless ninth to earn his 10th save in 11 attempts.

–Field Level Media

Hany Mukhtar logged a hat trick and Brian Schwake made seven saves as Nashville SC held off visiting LAFC 3-2 on Sunday night.

Mukhtar’s second goal, which came off a bending free kick from the left side of the box in the 21st minute for a 2-0 Nashville lead, was his 100th goal across all competitions in his seven years with the franchise.

His third goal in the 59th minute also came off a free kick from 25 yards out in the field’s middle. Muhktar drilled it to the upper right corner, just out of reach of goalie Thomas Hasal.

That goal came in handy when Denis Bouanga pulled one back in the 68th minute via Son Heung-Min’s corner kick. Bouanga, standing near the left post, flicked the ball just inside the woodwork.

However, Schwake came up big throughout the match, withstanding LAFC’s fierce attacks often enough to help his team get the result. LAFC (6-5-3, 21 points) owned a 22-8 advantage in shots and a 9-4 margin in shots on frame but couldn’t translate it into a result

Nashville (9-1-3, 30 points) leaned on Schwake at the end. Ryan Hollingshead had a great chance to equalize in the 89th minute on a point-blank shot but Schwake denied him with his left arm.

The match was billed prior to its start as one between two of the league’s top sides. LAFC was just 2-4-2 since a 4-0-1 start but is still considered one of the most talented teams in the league, while Nashville entered as the league’s only unbeaten team at home.

After the first 10 minutes, when Nashville seemed a bit tentative, the hosts it cracked the code in the 13th on a smart counterattack. Warren Madrigal teed up Muhktar on the right side of the box and he beat Hasal low to the left corner.

Nashville appeared poised for a rout after Muhktar’s second marker but LAFC responded in the 22nd minute when Bouanga zipped a pass to David Martinez at the goal mouth for a tap-in tally.

–Field Level Media