{"id":394326,"date":"2026-08-01T03:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394326\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T03:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:41:13","slug":"mystics-beat-the-wings-for-1st-4-game-winning-streak-since-2020-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394326\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics beat the Wings for 1st 4-game winning streak since 2020 \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakira Austin scored a season-high 28 points and had 10 rebounds, Kiki Iriafen added 22 points and nine rebounds and the Washington Mystics beat the Dallas Wings 81-75 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Washington (16-12) has won four straight for the first time since September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Cotie McMahon made Washington\u2019s final field goal with 2:50 remaining in the fourth quarter for a 71-68 lead. Then, the Mystics closed it out by going 10 of 10 at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia Citron finished with 16 points for Washington despite going 3 of 18 from the field. Citron went 10 of 10 at the free-throw line, while Dallas only attempted 13.<\/p>\n<p>Paige Bueckers led Dallas (18-11) with 23 points. Arike Ogunbowale scored 14 of her 20 points in the first half. The Wings have lost three of their last four games.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunbowale made a 3-pointer with 5:12 left in the fourth to give Dallas its first lead, 64-63, since the opening two minutes of the game. It was her first made field goal of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Wings: Host Connecticut on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Mystics: Host the the Wings again Wednesday night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakira Austin scored a season-high 28 points and had 10 rebounds, Kiki Iriafen added 22 points and nine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,14421],"class_list":["post-394326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}