WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sonia Citron scored 22 points and Kiki Iriafen added 20 points and 10 rebounds to help the Washington Mystics beat the Connecticut Sun 92-84 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Citron sank 6 of 9 shots with two 3-pointers, adding four assists to help Washington (15-12) extend its win streak to three. Iriafen posted her third straight double-double.<\/p>\n
Shakira Austin had 17 points and six rebounds for Washington, which moved a season-high three games above .500.<\/p>\n
Aneesah Morrow led Connecticut (7-21) with 21 points. Olivia Nelson-Ododa had 16 points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n
Citron and Morrow both scored 17 points in the first half as the two teams played to a 54-all halftime tie.<\/p>\n
Austin scored the first five points for Washington in the third quarter, Iriafen scored the next seven and Citron sank a 3-pointer for a 68-60 lead with 4:49 remaining. The Mystics outscored the Sun 25-14 to lead 79-64 heading to the fourth.<\/p>\n
Morrow had 14 points in the first period to help the Sun take a 33-26 lead with their highest scoring quarter this season.<\/p>\n
Connecticut has gone 1-11 without the injured Brittney Griner in the lineup.<\/p>\n
Connecticut: At Chicago Sky on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Washington: Hosts Dallas Wings on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sonia Citron scored 22 points and Kiki Iriafen added 20 points and 10 rebounds to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":839595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[2476,1512,2738,388042,84,34429,9773,184754,223492,223490,289007,345920,336644,12795,34428,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-965823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aneesah-morrow","tag-brittney-griner","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-sun-washington-mystics-score-wnba","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-kiki-iriafen","tag-olivia-nelson-ododa","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-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\/965823","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=965823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}