The Indiana Fever hosted the Washington Mystics from Gainbridge Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. The Washington Mystics came out of the gates hot outscoring the Fever 34-19 in the first quarter. It was more of the same in the second quarter as the Mystics would outscore the Fever 17-11 and take a huge lead into the halftime break leading 51-30. In that second quarter, the Fever went 7:45 without making a shot from the field, all of their points during that stretch were made at the free throw line. The Mystics shot 64% from the field in the first half. In the second half, the Fever offense started to click more as they would outscore the Mystics 31-26 and also score more points in the third quarter than they did in the entire first half. In the fourth quarter, the Fever and Mystics were even on points at 16 apiece and the Mystics came away with a dominant 93-77 victory. In the win the Mystics had 4 players score in double-figures led by Kiki Iriafen who had 21 points on 9-13 from the field, 1-2 from three, and 2-4 from the free throw line, grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds, dished out an assist, picked up a steal, and a block, Shakira Austin had 20 points on 7-13 from the field, 0-1 from three, and 6-8 from the free throw line, grabbed 10 rebounds, dished out 5 assists, and picked up 2 steals, Sonia Citron had 16 points on 7-12 from the field, 2-3 from three point range, grabbed 4 rebounds, dished out a game-high 9 assists, and picked up a block, Georgia Amoore had 11 points on 4-6 from the field, 3-4 from three point range, grabbed a rebound, dished out 4 assists, and picked up a steal. In the loss the Fever had 3 players score in double-figures led by Caitlin Clark who had 25 points on 6-20 from the field, 3-10 from three, 10-10 from the free throw line, grabbed 2 rebounds, dished out 5 assists, picked up 2 steals, and a block, Kelsey Mitchell had 22 points on 8-20 from the field, 3-10 from three, and 3-3 from the free throw line, dished out 2 assists, and picked up a steal, Makayla Timpson had 13 points on 4-4 from the field, and 5-6 from the free throw line, grabbed 7 rebounds, and picked up 3 steals. The Mystics improved to 26-16 on the season while the Fever fell to 27-15.
Next up:
The Indiana Fever host the Minnesota Lynx tomorrow night at 8 PM EST broadcast on ESPN.
The Washington Mystics host the Connecticut Sun tomorrow night at 7:30 PM EST broadcast on WNBA League Pass.
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