The Washington Mystics fell to the Indiana Fever, 94\u201365, on Sunday afternoon from CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore.<\/p>\n
Rookie guard\u00a0Sonia Citron\u00a0paced Washington with 17 points on an efficient 6-of-9 shooting, adding two rebounds, one block, and one steal. With the performance, Citron set a new single-season scoring record in franchise history (644 points), surpassing former Mystic Brittney Sykes\u2019 631 points from 2023.<\/p>\n
Citron also climbed into third place on the WNBA\u2019s all-time rookie leaderboard for three-pointers made in a season (78), passing legends Tamika Catchings and Crystal Robinson. Citron scored 13 of her 17 points in the first half, marking her fifth game this year with double-figure scoring before the break.<\/p>\n
Kiki Iriafen\u00a0added 11 points, five rebounds, two assists, and one steal. With her efforts, she moved into ninth place on the Mystics\u2019 single-season scoring list (568), passing Nikki McCray, Chamique Holdsclaw, and Crystal Langhorne. <\/p>\n
Iriafen also logged her 30th game this season with at least 10 points and five rebounds, the most in a season by any Mystics player, and the third-most by a rookie in WNBA history.<\/p>\n
Shakira Austin\u00a0tallied 11 points, seven rebounds, and two blocks, becoming the 10th player in franchise history to surpass 100 career blocks. It was her 20th game this season with double-figure points and at least five boards.<\/p>\n
Off the bench,\u00a0Jade Melbourne\u00a0led the team with five assists, notching her 10th game of the year with five or more helpers, a new single-season career high.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emily Engstler\u00a0tied for a game-high with seven rebounds, her 10th performance of five or more boards in a reserve role.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sug Sutton\u00a0added a defensive spark, recording her ninth multi-steal game of the season.<\/p>\n
Up next for Washington will be the season finale at the New York Liberty Tuesday night with tip-off at 7 PM ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics fell to the Indiana Fever, 94\u201365, on Sunday afternoon from CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,69832,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-130515","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-mystics-fever","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130515","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=130515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}