{"id":145377,"date":"2025-09-10T01:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145377\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:03:06","slug":"recap-mystics-lose-to-liberty-75-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145377\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Mystics lose to Liberty, 75-66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Washington Mystics traveled to New York to face the Liberty on Tuesday night. Washington dropped its regular-season finale, 75-66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Mystics entered Barclays Center without much to play for, but that didn\u2019t stop Sonia Citron from closing out her rookie season strong. The guard tallied 13 points and three assists on 5-for-12 shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Washington trailed 19-12 after a low-scoring opening frame, and that theme continued into the second quarter. New York pulled ahead by double-digits to enter halftime leading 41-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Mystics pulled it back a bit after the break, trimming their deficit to eight points in the third quarter before New York pulled away in the fourth to earn its 26th victory of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Mystics forward Emma Meesseman dominated down low, finishing with 19 points on 7-for-11 shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Washington finished the 2025 season 16-28 (.364) \u2014 a slight improvement over last season\u2019s .350 winning percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics traveled to New York to face the Liberty on Tuesday night. Washington dropped its regular-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,8253,48010,434],"class_list":["post-145377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-mystics-recaps","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}