{"id":120852,"date":"2025-09-05T03:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120852\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:01:07","slug":"mercury-win-sixth-straight-game-with-victory-over-mystics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120852\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury win sixth straight game with victory over Mystics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Kahleah Copper scored 18 points, Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix-mercury\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"phoenix-mercury\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> won their sixth straight game, 75-69 over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/washington-mystics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"washington-mystics\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Washington Mystics<\/a> on Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury (27-14), who had already clinched a playoff spot, moved into a tie for second place in the WNBA standings. The Mystics (16-26), who have been eliminated from playoff contention, dropped their eighth straight game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sami Whitcomb scored 12 points on four three-pointers for Phoenix. Satou Sabally added 10 points, six rebounds and four assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Kiki Iriafen set a Mystics franchise record with her 16th double-double of the season with 18 points and 13 rebounds. Shakira Austin had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Iriafen broke Crystal Langhorne\u2019s team record with 15 in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Washington went on a late 7-0 run to get within 71-69. Austin hit a shot through contact and completed the three-point play, Sug Sutton added a three-pointer and Iriafen made a layup with 1:06 to play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Sabally sank a three-pointer and DeWanna Bonner made a free throw with 17.7 seconds left to cap the scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix led 44-36 at halftime after closing on an 8-0 run. The Mystics turned it over five times in the first half, two of them in the final 90 seconds, accounting for 10 points for the Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Kahleah Copper scored 18 points, Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-120852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}