{"id":931221,"date":"2026-07-13T04:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/931221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T04:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:10:32","slug":"kelsey-mitchell-caitlin-clark-lead-fever-to-109-75-win-over-aja-wilson-and-the-aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/931221\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Mitchell, Caitlin Clark lead Fever to 109-75 win over A&#8217;ja Wilson and the Aces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> had 12 points, seven rebounds and six assists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kelsey-mitchell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> scored 27 points, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> beat A&#8217;ja Wilson and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/las-vegas-aces-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> 109-75 on Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Mitchell became the fifth player in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> history to score at least 25 points in six consecutive games, joining Wilson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/tina-charles-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Charles<\/a>, Arike Ogunbowale and Maya Moore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/aliyah-boston-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aliyah Boston<\/a> added 19 points and 11 rebounds for the Fever (14-9), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sophie-cunningham-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Cunningham<\/a> scored 20 points and tied her season high with six 3-pointers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Wilson finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/chelsea-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea Gray<\/a> added 15 points for the Aces. Las Vegas (17-7), which beat Phoenix 106-58 on Saturday, fell a half-game behind WNBA-leading Minnesota into a second-place tie with Golden State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Clark, on a minutes restriction as she recovers from a lingering back injury, made 5 of 11 from the field, just 1 of 5 from behind the arc. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Mitchell had her 39th consecutive game scoring in double figures, the second-longest streak of its kind in franchise history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Mitchell scored 20 first-half points, Boston added 15 and the duo combined for 14-of-22 (63.6%) shooting. The Fever, who shot 59% (22 of 37) from the field, made 7 of 13 (54%) from 3-point range, and hit 8 of 8 from the free-throw line, took a 59-48 lead at the intermission \u2014 tied for Indiana&#8217;s highest-scoring first half this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Young scored inside, Wilson put back her own miss and Young hit a 3-pointer a little more than a minute into the third quarter to cut the deficit to four points, but the Aces got no closer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/dana-evans-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana Evans<\/a>, who made her season debut, hit a 3-pointer that trimmed the Las Vegas deficit to 66-62 with 3:28 left in the third quarter, but the Fever outscored the Aces 43-9 from there. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Indiana never trailed and led by as many as 34 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Evans finished with eight points in 16 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Indiana beat the Aces in Las Vegas 84-68 last Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Fever: Host Golden State on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Aces: Play Monday at Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark had 12 points, seven rebounds and six assists, Kelsey Mitchell scored 27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1491,233,15535,142926,260909,234,1493,4144,16091,62,2475,67,132,68,232,12860],"class_list":["post-931221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aliyah-boston","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-chelsea-gray","tag-dana-evans","tag-event_recap","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-tina-charles","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116910714441117274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931221","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=931221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}