{"id":871937,"date":"2026-08-26T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871937\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:17:22","slug":"mystics-beat-mercury-for-2nd-most-wins-in-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871937\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics beat Mercury for 2nd-most wins in franchise history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Sonia Citron had 19 points and nine assists, Kiki Iriafen added 18 points and 10 rebounds for her 17th double-double of the season, and the Washington Mystics beat the Phoenix Mercury 94-84 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>With six games remaining, Washington (23-15) has the second-most regular-season wins in franchise history, trailing the WNBA champion 2019 team&#8217;s 26.<\/p>\n<p>Shakira Austin scored 16 points for Washington. Michaela Onyenwere and Lauren Betts each had 10.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Mack and Kahleah Copper each scored 19 points for Phoenix (13-25). Alyssa Thomas had 16 points and 10 assists, and Kelsey Plum, playing in her first game since Aug. 9, added 10 points in 17 minutes. Phoenix finished 3-for-17 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Washington shot 59 per cent from the field in the first half and led 51-33. The Mystics held a double-digit lead the entire second half \u2014 with their largest advantage at 64-44.<\/p>\n<p>A Phoenix bench player did not make a field goal until Plum\u2019s basket with 4:42 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The teams play again on Thursday in Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Sonia Citron had 19 points and nine assists, Kiki Iriafen added 18 points and 10 rebounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-871937","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\/871937","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=871937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}