Less than a month into the season, the Connecticut Sun have had some close calls, but are among the top teams in the Eastern Conference. The Washington Mystics won't achieve that status until they figure out how to win on the road.

Connecticut goes for its fourth win in a row Sunday when it hosts Washington, which will try to halt a season-opening four-game road losing streak.

The Sun (6-1) have the second-best record in the East behind Detroit, and they'll look to keep the pressure on the Shock when they take on the Mystics (2-5), owners of the second-worst mark in the conference ahead of expansion Atlanta.

Connecticut, though, has dropped three straight to Washington, the last two by a combined three points.

Since losing by 29 to Indiana on May 27, Connecticut has won three straight games by eight total points. The Sun trailed by five with 1:39 to play Friday, but Ashja Jones' jump hook shot with 19.7 seconds to play allowed them to escape with a 78-77 win over previously unbeaten Minnesota. Connecticut survived when Seimone Augustus missed a 17-foot jumper at the buzzer.

Jones led the Sun with a season-high 25 points while Tamika Whitmore had 18 and Lindsay Whalen added 16. Whalen and Whitmore are tied for the team lead with 15.6 points per game, and Whalen is third in the WNBA with an average of 6.1 assists.

Washington was held to six points in the fourth quarter Friday and lost its third straight, 63-52 to San Antonio. The Mystics, who average a league-low 66.6 points, were unable to take advantage of an injury to Silver Stars leading scorer Sophia Young that kept her on the bench for the second half.

"I felt like we should have been able to win this game tonight," Washington coach Tree Rollins said. "When your opponent's best player is sitting on the bench, I feel we should win the game."

Alana Beard, who scored a career-high 33 points in a 98-93 road loss to defending WNBA champion Phoenix on Tuesday, had only 13 against San Antonio - well below her team-high 19.3 average.

Beard averaged 23.0 points on nearly 50.0 percent shooting in three games against the Sun in 2007.