{"id":82617,"date":"2025-08-20T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82617\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T02:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:28:07","slug":"sun-beat-mystics-to-end-13-game-road-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82617\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun beat Mystics to end 13-game road losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Saniya Rivers scored 17 points, Olivia Nelson-Ododa had 15 points and nine rebounds, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/connecticut-sun\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"connecticut-sun\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connecticut Sun<\/a> beat 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> 80-69 on Tuesday night to end a 13-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut (7-27) secured its first road win since May 30 against Indiana to improve to 2-15 away from home. The Sun have won five of their last six road games against the Mystics, with a 104-67 loss earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>Tina Charles added 13 points and nine rebounds for Connecticut. Aaliyah Edwards scored eight points in 16 minutes in her first game against her former team.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia Citron led Washington (16-19) with 19 points. Shakira Austin added 12 points and Jade Melbourne had 11. Citron passed Chamique Holdsclaw (525) for most points by a rookie in Washington&#8217;s franchise history \u2014 with nine games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut started the second quarter on a 10-2 run to build a 31-25 lead and closed the half on a 9-0 spurt to make it 47-35. The Sun also scored the first four points of the third quarter for a 16-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson-Ododa opened and closed an 8-0 run in the fourth to make it 76-57 with 4:03 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut hosts a rematch with the Mystics on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Saniya Rivers scored 17 points, Olivia Nelson-Ododa had 15 points and nine rebounds, and the Connecticut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-82617","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\/82617","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=82617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}