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MAHWAH, N.J. (Oct. 3, 2018) – It took a long time before the Rutgers University-Camden women's tennis team could nail down a New Jersey Athletic Conference win over Ramapo College.
 
It was worth the month-long wait.
 
In a match that started on Sept. 8 before being suspended by rain, the Scarlet Raptors made a return trip to Mahwah here Wednesday afternoon and completed a 6-3 victory in a milestone New Jersey Athletic Conference win. Not only was it the first time Rutgers-Camden beat Ramapo since the return of the Raptors' long-dormant women's tennis program in 2011, but it also raised the Scarlet Raptors' conference record to 4-1, ensuring Rutgers-Camden of no worse than a tie for second place in the NJAC standings.
 
The Raptors raised their record to 6-1 overall, giving them their most season wins since the 2012-13 and 2013-14 teams went 10-6. The four wins in NJAC play, meanwhile, is the most since the program's rebirth during that 2011 season and tied for the most NJAC wins ever with the 1985 team, which also went 4-1 in the conference. The best NJAC mark the team had compiled since that 2011 rebirth season was a 3-3 mark in 2013.
 
Ramapo falls to 3-3 overall and 1-2 in NJAC play, losing to Rutgers-Camden for the first time in eight matches since the Raptors restarted their program. The closest Rutgers-Camden had come against the Roadrunners before Wednesday was a pair of 6-3 defeats in 2012 and 2013.
 
The first part of the match was completed last month, when the teams played their doubles competition. The Scarlet Raptors won two of the three doubles matches for a 2-1 lead before the rains came to wash out the singles competition. In Wednesday's singles play, Rutgers-Camden won four of the six matches.
 
In the September doubles competition, the Raptors lost the No. 1 match, 8-4, behind the team of junior Danielle Lemma and freshman Tiffany Trivers. They won at the second doubles spot, 8-5, with junior Aubrey Hawn joining freshman LeAnne Hall. At the third doubles, freshmen Morgan Dempsey and Hannah Cohan posted an 8-3 win.
 
On Wednesday in singles competition, Hawn won at the top spot (6-0, 6-0) and Lemma dropped a 2-6, 3-6 decision at second singles. Trivers rallied for a big 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win at the third spot and Hall dropped a 2-6, 2-6 decision at fourth singles. Wins by Dempsey and Cohan in the fifth and sixth spots, respectively, helped clinch the victory. Dempsey rallied to win, 3-6, 6-2, 2-1 (retired). Cohan, pictured above, won in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4.
 
The Scarlet Raptors return to action Saturday in another long-delayed NJAC match. Rutgers-Camden plays at Rutgers-Newark in a match that was postponed from Sept. 9 by rain. A win by Rutgers-Camden would give the Scarlet Raptors second place outright in NJAC play, trailing only perennial champion The College of New Jersey, which already has clinched this year's conference crown.
 
The Raptors close the fall portion of their season on Sunday with a non-conference home match against Ursinus College at 1 p.m.