{"id":731930,"date":"2026-06-29T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731930\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:32:09","slug":"mystics-win-a-marathon-matchup-topping-fire-124-123-in-record-tying-4-ots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731930\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics win a marathon matchup, topping Fire 124-123 in record-tying 4 OT&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sonia Citron scored 32 points, including the basket that put her team ahead to stay with 21.4 seconds left, and the Washington Mystics held off the Portland Fire 124-123 on Sunday in four overtimes \u2014 tying the longest game in WNBA history.<\/p>\n<p>The other four-overtime game was July 3, 2001, when Washington beat Seattle 72-69.<\/p>\n<p>Michaela Onyenwere scored 30 points and Kiki Iriafen added 27 for the Mystics (9-9), who became the first team in league history to have three players score at least 27 points in the same game.<\/p>\n<p>Carla Leite \u2014 who banked in a 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left in regulation and sent the game to overtime \u2014 led Portland with 32 points. Sarah Ashlee Barker scored 25 and Megan Gustafson added 20 for the Fire (8-12).<\/p>\n<p>The game had 21 ties and 12 lead changes \u2014 and took 3 hours, 35 minutes in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Portland led 55-48 at halftime before Washington held the Fire to 12 points in the third quarter and cut the deficit to 67-62. The Mystics surged back to take the lead late in regulation, but Leite&#8217;s 25-foot 3-pointer tied it at 87-all and forced overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Amoore left the game and did not return because of right knee soreness \u2014 the same knee she injured last year.<\/p>\n<p>Up next &#8211; Mystics host the Atlanta Dream on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sonia Citron scored 32 points, including the basket that put her team ahead to stay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-731930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731930","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=731930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}