{"id":841752,"date":"2026-09-23T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/841752\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:39:17","slug":"mystics-vs-sun-final-score-washington-wins-79-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/841752\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics vs. Sun final score: Washington wins, 79-69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Mystics continued their impressive season with a 79-69 win over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It marked Washington\u2019s franchise-record 27th win of the season as the playoffs near.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mystics led 23-16 after the first quarter behind a balanced scoring attack. The Sun battled back in the second frame to make it 44-42 Mystics entering halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shakira Austin dominated the second half. She finished with 25 points and 13 rebounds on 7-for-14 from the field. She got to the free-throw line 15 times, which showcased her dominance down low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sonia Citron added 12 points and was a game-high +18 as Washington held on for a double-digit win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mystics have one regular-season game remaining \u2014 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday against the Chicago Sky at CareFirst Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Washington is locked into a top-seven seed following tonight\u2019s win. They can finish as high as the fifth seed if they defeat Chicago and Indiana loses its final game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics continued their impressive season with a 79-69 win over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,4518,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-841752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117319222137903483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}