{"id":808486,"date":"2026-08-10T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/808486\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:38:09","slug":"austin-and-citron-score-19-points-each-as-mystics-beat-mercury-95-75-for-7th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/808486\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin and Citron score 19 points each as Mystics beat Mercury 95-75 for 7th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Shakira Austin had 19 points and 11 rebounds, Sonia Citron also scored 19 points and the Washington Mystics beat the Phoenix Mercury 95-75 on Sunday to extend their win streak to seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Citron shot 7 of 9 from the field, 5 of 6 from 3-point range, and had six assists.<\/p>\n<p>Michaela Onyenwere and Cotie McMahon scored 13 points apiece for the Mystics (19-12). Kiki Iriafen had 12 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 11 pick in the 2026 draft, McMahon has scored in double figures in three consecutive games and six times this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury (12-22) have lost three games in a row and four of their last five.<\/p>\n<p>Kahleah Copper led the Mercury with 15 points and Noemie Brochant added 13. Alyssa Thomas had 10 points, 10 rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix led 21-20 at the end of the first quarter but made just 12 of 34 (35.3%) from the field in the second and third combined as the Mystics stretched their lead to 22 points going into the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Lexi Held started the second half for the Mercury in place of Kelsey Plum due to a left calf injury. Plum, who was acquired from Los Angeles on Aug. 1, the day before the trade deadline, had five points on 2-for-7 shooting in 14 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Washington won a franchise-record eight games in a row in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mercury: Play the Sparks at the Galen Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mystics: Visit Las Vegas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Shakira Austin had 19 points and 11 rebounds, Sonia Citron also scored 19 points and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-808486","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\/808486","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=808486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}