Box Score LANCASTER, Penn. – Sophomore forward
Michelle Onu (Cherry Hill, NJ/Cherry Hill East) has served notice that she's back, and she carried the Rutgers University-Camden women's basketball team with her.
Onu, who entered this season with only nine career games under her belt due to two injury-riddled seasons, collected a double-double of 17 points and a career-high 20 rebounds to lead the Scarlet Raptors over Penn State-Berks, 67-50, in the consolation game of the Terry Greene Tip-Off Classic here Sunday.
Elizabethtown College defeated host Franklin & Marshall College, 59-48, in the championship game.
The victory was the first at Rutgers-Camden for new Scarlet Raptors Head Coach
Annette Reiter, who saw her team improve to 1-1.
Onu, who now owns five career double-doubles in 11 career games, helped the Scarlet Raptors control the boards, 58-42, as she passed her previous career rebounding high of 15, set against Keystone College on Nov. 15, 2011. She also shot 8-for-15 from the floor and 1-for-2 from the foul line on the way to her game-high 17 points.
Rutgers-Camden led almost the entire game. After Berks notched the game's first field goal, the Scarlet Raptors rattled off 10 straight points to take the lead for good. Onu had four points in that run.
Rutgers-Camden built a 36-23 halftime lead and led by as many as 19 points (on three occasions) in the second half as it bounced back from a tournament- and season-opening loss to Elizabethtown Saturday night.
In addition to Onu, junior center
Tanjae Lewis (Magnolia, NJ/Sterling) nearly added another double-double, collecting 10 points and nine rebounds. Sophomore guard
Krystle Cook (Philadelphia, PA/Girard College), meanwhile, had 10 points, six rebounds and a game-high five steals.
Junior guard
Monica Burch (Lawnside, NJ/Sterling) chipped in with eight points and dished off a game-high six assists on her way to earning a berth on the all-tournament team.
Junior guard/forward
Irene Grimanis (Brooklawn, NJ/Gloucester) added seven points and eight rebounds.
Rutgers-Camden shot 26-for-78 from the floor (33.3 percent) and forced 27 Penn State-Berks turnovers.
For the Nittany Lions (0-2), freshman forward
Khadijah Robinson (Steelton, PA/Steelton Highspire) and senior guard
Kellie Wilson (Philadelphia, PA/Franklin Learning Center) both notched 12 points. Sophomore forward
Nichole Young-Trapp (Reading, PA/Reading) added 10 points and tied Robinson with team highs of nine rebounds apiece.
The Scarlet Raptors host Rutgers-Newark Saturday at 1 p.m. in their New Jersey Athletic Conference opener.