{"id":28321,"date":"2025-07-28T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28321\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:20:08","slug":"mercury-pull-away-with-a-strong-second-half-to-beat-mystics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28321\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury pull away with a strong second half to beat Mystics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Alyssa Thomas scored 27 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and added eight 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> took control in the third quarter, defeating 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Mystics<\/a> 88-72 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix outscored Washington 26-12 in the third quarter for a 10-point lead and pushed the advantage to 17 early in the fourth quarter. The Mystics went on a 9-0 run but the Mercury then scored eight straight to secure the game.<\/p>\n<p>Satou Sabally scored 15 points for the Mercury (16-9), Kitija Laksa and Monique Akoa Makani both added 13 and Natasha Mack had 10.<\/p>\n<p>Shakira Austin scored 20 points for Washington (12-13), which was coming off a\u00a0win over Seattle the night before. Jade Melbourne and Sonia Citron had 13 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne&#8217;s driving layup in the last second gave the Mystics a 23-21 lead after one quarter. There were 10 lead changes in the first quarter but Washington maintained a slim lead throughout the second and it was 46-42 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Akoa Makani&#8217;s three-pointer gave Phoenix a 49-48 lead and the Mercury had a 55-53 lead when the game was stopped with 3:29 left in the third quarter while security dealt with a fan near the Phoenix bench. After that, the Mercury raced away. Thomas hit a jumper in the closing seconds for a 68-58 lead heading into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Alyssa Thomas scored 27 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and added eight assists and the Phoenix Mercury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-28321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28321","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=28321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}