{"id":399101,"date":"2026-08-06T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399101\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:12:09","slug":"wings-drop-20-point-lead-in-loss-to-mystics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399101\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings drop 20-point lead in loss to Mystics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014\u00a0Shakira Austin had 27 points and 13 rebounds, rookie Cotie McMahon scored 10 of her season-high 18 points in the fourth quarter and the Washington Mystics overcame a 20-point deficit to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> 96-92 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Washington trailed 76-56 with three minutes left in the third quarter. But the Mystics went on a 12-0 run in the fourth to tie it at 86-all with 3:38 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon completed a three-point play with three minutes left to give Washington its first lead of the game at 89-88. Then, Sonia Citron made a shot in the lane on back-to-back possessions to make it 93-88 with 1:12 left.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had a foul overturned with 33.2 seconds left and McMahon scored at the other end for a 95-90 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Shepard had 22 points and 11 rebounds for her 20th double-double of the season, and Alanna Smith added 21 points and 11 boards for Dallas (19-12). Paige Bueckers scored 17 points and Arike Ogunbowale had 15.<\/p>\n<p>Citron and Georgia Amoore each scored 12 points for Washington (17-12). Kiki Iriafen added 11 and Michaela Onyenwere had 10.<\/p>\n<p>Wings: Host Golden State on Friday at American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n<p>Mystics: Stay home to play Atlanta on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014\u00a0Shakira Austin had 27 points and 13 rebounds, rookie Cotie McMahon scored 10 of her season-high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88877,89478],"class_list":["post-399101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-wings","tag-tp-paige-bueckers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399101","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=399101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}