UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Sonia Citron had 24 points and a career-high 12 rebounds, Michaela Onyenwere scored 22 points and the Washington Mystics beat Connecticut 88-81 on Wednesday night to extend the Sun’s losing streak to six games.<\/p>\n
Rookie center Lauren Betts, the No. 4 overall pick, made her first career start and had 13 points for the Mystics (6-7). Georgia Amoore added 10 points.<\/p>\n
Forward Kiki Iriafen (ankle) and center Shakira Austin (knee) did not play for the Mystics.<\/p>\n
Leila Lacan made a driving layup with 5:46 left to tie it at 70, and Betts, who finished 9 of 10 from the free-throw line, answered with two foul shots that gave Washington the lead for good.<\/p>\n
Aneesah Morrow had 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Sun (2-14). Lacan also scored 11 points.<\/p>\n
Mystics: At New York on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Sun: Host Toronto on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Sonia Citron had 24 points and a career-high 12 rebounds, Michaela Onyenwere scored 22…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":874921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[2476,84,102784,34429,23245,32262,112406,355628,184754,223492,223490,289007,345920,355629,355630,336644,12795,34428,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-874920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aneesah-morrow","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-georgia-amoore","tag-kiki-iriafen","tag-lauren-betts","tag-leila-lacan","tag-michaela-onyenwere","tag-mystics-sun-score","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40778-ap-connecticut-sports-only","tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","tag-product-40818-ap-virginia-sports-only","tag-product-40819-ap-washington-dc-sports-only","tag-shakira-austin","tag-sonia-citron","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}