This young team is starting to become a problem for the rest of the league.<\/p>\n
The Washington Mystics<\/a>, leading the majority of the game, were left to fight until the very last millisecond (literally), to pull off an 86-85 win against the Toronto Tempo<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t until the final 11 seconds of the game that the Mystics ran into trouble.<\/p>\n Former Mystic Brittney Sykes<\/a> hit a driving layup to give the Tempo a one-point lead. The game appeared to be over, until with 0.5 seconds left, Sonia Citron snagged the jump ball won by Lauren Betts and closed the game out with a game-winning buzzer beater.<\/p>\n Citron ended the night with 17 points, five rebounds, three assists and two steals across 34 minutes.\u00a0Here\u2019s what Citron said about her game-winning moment:<\/p>\n I just remember if Lauren tips it to me, I\u2019ve got to put it up. And she did a great job winning the tip, and I got it and had to shoot it. I didn\u2019t have a choice, and just luckily it went in.<\/p>\n Head coach Sydney Johnson expressed in the postgame press conference that he believed the team deserved some good luck after repeatedly fighting to the finish, without getting the results they wanted. The coach also showered praise on Citron, saying:<\/p>\n We want her (Citron) to shoot the ball and just keep letting it fly. We trust and believe her teammates do as well. It\u2019s not really a bad shot that leaves her hands\u2026just really proud of her that she\u2019s taken to coaching, she\u2019s a great teammate and she made a big-time shot and she\u2019s done that before, so it\u2019s great to celebrate that.<\/p>\n The last-second win also served as the best game of the season for rookie Lauren Betts, who led the team in scoring with a career-high 18 points while adding four rebounds and two steals. Since Kiki Iriafen<\/a> is out day to day with a right ankle sprain, Betts saw more minutes on the floor and took advantage of the opportunity to help her team to the finish.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Citron noted that she felt Betts did everything well, from picking her spots perfectly to her aggressiveness. Citron explained:<\/p>\n What you guys just saw is what we see every day in practice. The whole team, the coaches, the organization, we have so much faith in her, and she continues to put in the work, so we\u2019re not surprised she played like this. That\u2019s Lauren.<\/p>\n