Mitchell’s season-high 25 points leads Fever past Storm

Kelsey Mitchell made seven 3-pointers and scored a season-high 25 points as the visiting Indiana Fever used a 17-0 run in the second half to defeat the Seattle Storm 80-68 on Thursday night.

NaLyssa Smith had 12 points and 14 rebounds for Indiana (5-7). Emma Cannon and Erica Wheeler each scored 10 points, and rookie Aliyah Boston had nine points and 11 rebounds.

WNBA scoring leader Jewell Loyd was held to 19 points on five-of-21 shooting for Seattle (3-9). Ezi Magbegor added 18 points and Ivana Dojkic had 11. The Storm made just 22 of 74 field goals, 11 of them from three-point range.

Hamilton’s Kia Nurse had nine points and three rebounds for Seattle.

Seattle led 59-58 with 4:11 left in the third quarter, but did not score again until Jordan Horston’s layup with 3:48 left in the fourth. The storm went zero for 21 during the 10-minute drought, including 15 consecutive misses in the fourth.

Mitchell scored 12 points in the first half and Smith had 10 points and 10 rebounds as Indiana led 48–44. Mitchell made a 3-pointer with 2.3 seconds left in the third quarter to extend the lead to 67-59 on a 9-0 run.

Mystics hand Sky 5th loss in a row

Elena Delle Donne had 18 points and eight rebounds, Natasha Cloud added 16, and the visiting Washington Mystics defeated Chicago 80-59 on Thursday night for the Sky’s fifth consecutive loss.

Washington (8-4) defeated Chicago for the second time in four days and won 77-69 on Sunday. The Mystics also defeated the Sky 71-69 on May 26.

Ariel Atkins added 12 points and Shakira Austin had 10 points and seven rebounds for Washington. Cloud became the fourth player in team history to make 200 career three-pointers.

Alanna Smith had 13 points for Chicago (5-8). Kahleah Copper was two of 13 from the field and Marina Mabrey went two of 11 as the Sky shot 30 percent.

Washington beat Chicago 25-9 in the first quarter on 11 of 22 shots. The Sky made just three of 17 field goals in the first 10 minutes and failed to reach double digits until Dana Evans’ jumper with 7:57 left before halftime.

Washington led by 19 points in the first half and crossed after halftime.

Sun rolls over Lynx

Tiffany Hayes hit a season-high four 3-pointers to score 21 points, DiJonai Carrington added 17 points, and the visiting Connecticut Sun defeated the Minnesota Lynx 89-68 on Thursday night.

Hayes had 14 points in the first quarter as Connecticut built a 27-17 lead. The Sun made five three-pointers in the first quarter, while Minnesota shot five for 20 total. The Lynx missed nine consecutive shots from late in the first quarter into the second to trail 33-17 with 6:56 left before halftime.

Hayes scored 16 points in the first half and Alyssa Thomas had 10 points and six rebounds as Connecticut extended the lead to 41-28. The Sun put the game out of reach by beating Minnesota 26-15 in the third quarter.

Thomas finished with 15 points and nine rebounds, and DeWanna Bonner added 11 points for Connecticut (11-3). Brionna Jones was out of action on Tuesday following a contactless injury in the fourth quarter against Seattle.

Collier had 13 of Minnesota’s 28 points in the first half. Minnesota was only one of 10 from three-point range in the first half, finishing four of 22.

Chatham, Ont., native Bridget Carleton collected four points and five rebounds for Minnesota.

Liberty-Lynx game postponed for July due to wildfires

The New York Liberty is hosting the Lynx on July 28 as a make-up game for the game that was postponed by smoke from the Canadian wildfires that blanketed the area earlier this month.

The game was originally scheduled to be played on June 7, but was called off a few hours before tip-off due to major air quality issues in New York. The league announced the new date for the game on Thursday.

The rescheduled game will give New York back-to-back games as they host Atlanta the night before. Minnesota will host Washington on July 26 and play Connecticut that week on July 30.