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The Bay Breakers host the travelling Chicago Tempest at Heart Health Park in Sacramento during Round 4 of the 2026 WER season!

The Bay Breakers come into this game with a 2-0 all time record against the Tempest, with the most recent meeting coming in Round 12 of the 2025 season when they recorded a 45-21 victory, also at home albeit down in Lodi, CA.

The Tempest’s woes against the Breakers would continue in their third ever meeting. The on-form Breakers opened the scoring in the first minute through Taina Tukuafu and never looked back. They were 21-0 up by the 10 minute mark and the reeling Tempest did rally and open their account after 15 minutes through fly-half Chloe Runge, starting a small alternation of rapid scoring, with the Breakers securing the try BP a few minutes later before Kaylee Westmoreland scored a second for Chicago in the 23rd minute. At this point, the Breakers pulled away with another 3 tries before the half time break, taking a  47-12 lead into the sheds.

The second half started calmer, with the Tempest able to hold off the Breakers for almost the first 20 minutes, but unable to add any score of their own. The floodgates eventually opened once again though, with another 3 scores for the Breakers in the 10 minutes from 58 to 68, before Katie Lohaus and the Tempest were able to get the final score of the day, but it was far too late. The league-leading Breakers take a huge 66-17 victory and remain at the top of the standings. The Tempest were unable to salvage a point, but stay just ahead of the NY Exiles in 5th place.