68-57<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\nNelson-Ododa added nine rebounds for Connecticut (4-15), which has won back-to-back games for the first time all year. Lacan had four steals.<\/p>\n
Brittney Griner and Charlisse Leger-Walker had 10 points apiece.<\/p>\n
Washington took a timeout with 1:06 remaining before committing three turnovers to seal its second straight loss. The Mystics shot 35 percent from the field and 54 percent from the free-throw line while getting outscored by 16 points in the paint.<\/p>\n
Georgia Amoore led all scorers with 14 points. Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen each netted 11 as the Mystics (8-9) had three players finish in double digits.<\/p>\n
Connecticut coach Rachid Meziane missed the game due to illness. Associate head coach Roneeka Hodges took over in replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlisse Leger-Walker (right) had 10 points to help the Sun knock off the Mystics on Friday.Sean D. Elliot\/Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":895608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1339,136016,6561,282924,362875,1002,2738,348848,362876,1005,32262,138341,74269,362874,3092,1926,62,251059,67,132,68,2969,232,3357],"class_list":["post-895607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-sport","tag-celebration","tag-charlisse-leger-walker","tag-chicago-sky-basketball-team","tag-color-image","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-sun-basketball-team","tag-first-quarter-sport","tag-horizontal","tag-leila-lacan","tag-match-sport","tag-mohegan-sun-arena","tag-number-4","tag-photography","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uncasville","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wnba","tag-womens-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116820024284447129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895607","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=895607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Charlisse Leger-Walker (right) had 10 points to help the Sun knock off the Mystics on Friday.Sean D. Elliot\/Getty<\/p>\n