The Monarchs were playing their third game in four nights, but it was the Mystics who looked exhausted: Chasity Melvin went to the bench with five fouls, Sacto cleaned up all the offensive glass, and the Western Conference team pulled way ahead late to win a dispiriting one-sided game.

Beard, injured Saturday, played, but it didn't help. DC owner Sheila Johnson expressed her displeasure in the locker room. Delisha Milton-Jones: "When you have the boss coming in here saying how disappointed she is, then you know you better get your [butt] in gear because you could be out of a job."