JANUARY 8, 2007
PALUMBO SETS SCHOOL-RECORD WITH SEVEN TREYS, SET
SCHOOL RECORD WITH 63 REBOUNDS AS KING'S WOMEN ROUTE RUTGERS-CAMDEN
78-55
WILKES-BARRE -- King's College junior guard
Jenna Palumbo scored a game-high 23 points and set
a new school record with seven three-point field goals as the King's
College women's basketball team coasted to a 78-55 victory over host
Rutgers-Camden University Monday in Camden, NJ.
With the win, King's won its third straight game while improving to 8-5
on the year. Rutgers-Camden, meanwhile, fell to 5-8.
King's started slowly, building an early 9-6 lead with 11:54 remaining
in the first half, but a traditional three-point play by Brittany Atzert
and back-to-back three-pointers by Palumbo and Casey Heitman ignited an
11-2 surge as King's stretched the lead to 20-8 with 9:36 remaining in
the opening stanza.
After a bucket by Rutgers-Camden King's would respond with an inside
basket by Andrea Hochstuhl and another three-pointer from Palumbo as the
King's lead swelled to 25-15 with 8:39 on the clock. Rutgers-Camden
would later cut the lead to 29-20, but King's would outscore the Raptors
7-4 the rest of the way, including Palumbo's 17th point of the half on a
three-pointer with 2:19 to go as the Lady Monarchs took a 39-27 lead
into the halftime break.
King's continued to dominate in the second half as the Lady Monarchs
opened up the second stanza with a 15-0 run, capped by back-to-back
three-pointers from Palumbo and Kaitlyn Fiorino as the Lady Monarch lead
swelled to 54-27 with 14:54 left in the contest. King's would keep up
the pressure on both ends of the floor and would eventually take its
biggest lead of the game at 70-38 an a pair of foul shots from Jessica
Paettie with 7:13 left.
Palumbo was 7-of-13 from the field, including 7-of-10 from three-point
range and broke the King's single-game mark of six three-pointers set by
Danielle Mears in 1990 and equaled by Fiorino just three days earlier in
a win over Arcadia University. Hochstuhl finished the game with 15
points and nine rebounds while Heitman came off the bench to tally a
double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Fiorino scored eight
points with four rebounds while Atzert added seven points and eight
rebounds. Lauren Kendra chipped in with five assists, five rebounds, and
three steals.
The Lady Monarchs also dominated the boards, out-rebounding the Raptors
63-38 to set a new school single-game record. The previous high for
King's came against Upsala in 1993 when the Lady Monarchs pulled down 62
boards.
King's will host cross-town rival Wilkes University Wednesday at 6:00
p.m. in Scandlon Gymnasium.
