TORONTO \u2014 Kiki Iriafen and Shakira Austin each had a double-double to lead the Washington Mystics past the Toronto Tempo 79-62 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Iriafen had 25 points, 13 in the second half, and 14 rebounds as Washington (12-10) surged ahead in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Austin added 17 points and 10 rebounds as the Mystics won back-to-back games.<\/p>\n
Julie Allemand led short-handed Toronto (10-14) with 15 points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n
Isabelle Harrison and all-star Marina Mabrey had eight points apiece in the Tempo’s lowest scoring game in their inaugural season. Toronto’s previous low was a 68-65 loss to Washington in its first-ever regular season game on May 8.<\/p>\n
Brittney Sykes (left plantar fascia), Kiki Rice (left ankle sprain) and Temi Fagbenle (concussion) all missed the game for Toronto.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Mystics: It was a tale of two halves for Washington, which was losing 32-26 at intermission. Iriafen was dominant as the Mystics outscored the hosts 26-13 in the third and 27-17 in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Tempo: Lack of depth continues to hurt Toronto, especially in the frontcourt. Without Rice and Fagbenle, Washington outrebounded the Tempo 46-26 and got 20 second-chance points compared to Toronto’s three.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Iriafen’s layup 2:47 into the third quarter capped an 11-3 Mystics run to start the second half. It also gave Washington its first lead since the midway point of the opening quarter.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Toronto is in the midst of a nine-game homestand over 25 days, but that’s at three venues: Coca-Cola Coliseum and Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, and Montreal’s Bell Centre.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Toronto: Hosts the Atlanta Dream on Friday.<\/p>\n
Washington: Hosts Bridget Carleton of Chatham-Kent, Ont., and the Portland Fire on Thursday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 14, 2026.<\/p>\n
John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Kiki Iriafen and Shakira Austin each had a double-double to lead the Washington Mystics past the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":["post-803085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803085","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=803085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}