{"id":711393,"date":"2026-06-03T03:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711393\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:18:13","slug":"kiki-iriafen-has-another-double-double-and-the-mystics-beat-the-sky-90-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711393\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiki Iriafen has another double-double and the Mystics beat the Sky 90-72"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Shakira Austin<\/a> scored 17 points, Kiki Iriafen<\/a> had 15 points and 11 rebounds, and the Washington Mystics<\/a> beat the Chicago Sky<\/a> 90-72 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Iriafen notched her fourth double-double of the season and 20th of her career. Austin also grabbed eight rebounds to help the Mystics outrebound Chicago 46-29. <\/p>\n

Michaela Onyenwere<\/a> added 13 points for Washington (4-4). Angela Dugalic<\/a>, Lauren Betts<\/a> and Alicia Florez Getino<\/a> each scored eight points off the bench. Sonia Citron<\/a> (left foot sprain) missed the first game of her WNBA<\/a> career. <\/p>\n

Sydney Taylor<\/a> scored 15 points off the bench for Chicago (3-6), which lost its fifth straight game. Skylar Diggins<\/a> added 14 points, and Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> had 12 points, 13 rebounds, six blocks and five assists. Elizabeth Williams<\/a> chipped in with 10 points. <\/p>\n

Washington led 47-40 at halftime after shooting 55% from the field. The Mystics extended it to 74-58 after outscoring the Sky 27-18 in the third. <\/p>\n

The Mystics finished 20 of 32 from the free-throw line, compared to just 16 attempts for Chicago. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Chicago: Returns home to play Connecticut on Friday. <\/p>\n

Washington: Goes on the road to face Atlanta on Saturday. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Shakira Austin scored 17 points, Kiki Iriafen had 15 points and 11 rebounds, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[258138,228200,49,48,726,727,187701,734,4654,123520,15708,12197,4647,4649,82,231185,737,630,9709],"class_list":["post-711393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alicia-florez-getino","tag-angela-dugalic","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-elizabeth-williams","tag-event_recap","tag-kamilla-cardoso","tag-kiki-iriafen","tag-lauren-betts","tag-michaela-onyenwere","tag-shakira-austin","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sonia-citron","tag-sports","tag-sydney-taylor","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711393","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=711393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}