CAMDEN, N.J. (Jan. 7, 2019) –Junior guard Fatimah Williams scored a career-high 29 points and the Rutgers University-Camden women's basketball team went on a 26-14 run in the fourth quarter to rally past Penn State-Abington, 76-68, in a non-conference game here Monday.
 
The victory was the first of the calendar year for the Scarlet Raptors, who improve to 7-6 by snapping a two-game losing streak.
 
The Nittany Lions fall to 5-5.
 
Behind the hot shooting hand of senior guard Shayna Rodriguez, who finished with 27 points, Abington forged into a 39-35 halftime lead and kept that four-point lead heading into the final quarter at 54-50.
 
Rutgers-Camden immediately sliced its deficit to one point with a trey by senior guard Gabby Greene to open the final stanza. After the Nittany Lions' junior guard Laquana Nagle answered with a layup, Rutgers-Camden tied the game at 56-56 on a three-pointer by freshman guard Wykira Johnson-Kelly. Another trey by Johnson-Kelly, 45 seconds later, gave the Scarlet Raptors the lead for good, 59-56. Although Abington cut the deficit to 63-62 with 5:37 remaining in the game and to 70-68 with 2:13 left, the Nittany Lions never caught the Scarlet Raptors the rest of the way.
 
Rutgers-Camden closed out the game with the final six points, including five by Williams as she passed her previous career high of 28 points, set against Rowan University on Nov. 20 of this season. The 29 points also hiked her career total past the 500 milestone to 508.
 
Williams, pictured above, also added eight rebounds, two assists and one steal, while shooting 11-for-22 from the floor.
 
Greene finished with 16 points, five steals, four rebounds and three assists while becoming the 16th player in program history to play in 90 career games. Her 16 points jumped her into 10th place on the all-time scoring list with 1,127 points, passing both Nelly Cruz (1,113 points from 1988-91) and Tara Harris (1,117, 1984-88). Greene also increased her program career record to 211 treys, draining four three-pointers.
 
Johnson-Kelly added 14 points, eight rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block, while senior guard/forward Ariel Robinson had eight points and seven rebounds. Freshman guard/forward Tamara Johnson added seven points for the Scarlet Raptors.
 
Rodriguez shot 10-for-15 from the floor, including 5-for-8 from three-point range, in her big night for the Nittany Lions. Nagbe added a double-double of 13 points and 11 rebounds, while junior guard Sydney Barrow notched nine points, six boards, three steals and a game-high eight assists.
 
Rutgers-Camden shot 27-for-64 (42.2 percent) from the floor and 14-for-18 (77.8) from the foul line. Penn State-Abington was 26-for-55 (47.3) from the floor and 6-for-11 (54.5) from the line, but also made eight more turnovers than the Scarlet Raptors (19-11). Rutgers-Camden held a 36-35 edge off the boards.
 
Rutgers-Camden returns to action Wednesday when it hosts Montclair State University in a 6 p.m. New Jersey Athletic Conference game.