NEWARK, N.J. (Feb. 16, 2019) – A long scoring drought spelled the end of the Rutgers University-Camden women's basketball season here Saturday night as the Scarlet Raptors lost to Rutgers-Newark, 65-47, in the first round of the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship Tournament.
 
Fourth-seeded Newark, 14-12, advances to the conference semifinals, where it will play at top-seeded The College of New Jersey Wednesday at 7 p.m.
 
Rutgers-Camden closes its season at 15-11, ending the stellar four-year careers of seniors Gabby Greene and Ariel Robinson.
 
Robinson, whose final game allowed her to become the sixth player in program history to reach the 100-game mark in her career, finished the night with five points, three assists and a team-high eight rebounds. She closed her career with 497 points and 454 rebounds, along with 133 assists and 126 steals.
 
Greene, playing in her 103rd career game, finished one game shy of tying for the program's career record. She notched four points, three rebounds, three assists and four steals in her final game and finished among the program's all-time leaders in numerous categories. By far the all-time leader in three-point field goals, Greene closed her career with 280, a stunning 108 more than the second-place total. Greene also finished with the program's top three-point shooting percentage (.337) among all players with the NCAA career minimum of 125 treys. She ended up fifth on the career list for points (1,295) and steals (231) and seventh in assists (263).
 
The teams swapped leads 10 times and were tied on five occasions midway through the third quarter before the Scarlet Raptors hit their costly dry spell. It lasted 9:02 over the end of the third quarter and start of the fourth quarter. The Scarlet Raptors took their last lead of the night at 37-35 on a trey by freshman guard Wykira Johnson-Kelly with 6:03 remaining in the third quarter.
 
The Scarlet Raiders followed with the final 14 points of the frame and the first four of the fourth quarter. By the time Rutgers-Camden sophomore guard Shane Holmes hit a layup with 7:01 remaining in the game, the Scarlet Raiders had rattled off 18 consecutive points. Seven of those points were scored by Newark senior guard Faith Ashby, who tallied a game-high 20 points. Her sister, junior guard/forward Hannah Ashby, added 19 points and eight rebounds, while junior center Comfort Akinbo added a double-double of 10 points and a game-high 10 boards.
 
Freshman guard/forward Dorian Capurso collected a game-high seven steals as Rutgers-Camden committed 20 turnovers.
 
Johnson-Kelly concluded her stellar rookie season with a team-high 17 points for Rutgers-Camden, including a career-high five treys. She finished with 414 points and a scoring average of 15.9 points for her freshman season. Johnson-Kelly, pictured above, also averaged 6.7 rebounds, dished off 61 assists and collected 54 steals.
 
Another freshman, forward Breanna Ettrick, finished second on the team in scoring Saturday, notching a career-high eight points. She shot 4-for-7 from the floor as she doubled her previous high of four points, set against Rowan University Nov. 20.
 
Holmes led the Raptors with five steals.
 
Junior guard Fatimah Williams notched six points and seven rebounds. She finished her campaign with 462 points, the 13th-highest single-season total in program history, and a 17.8 scoring average. She will enter her senior season next year needing only 268 points to join the career 1,000-point club.
 
Rutgers-Camden shot 17-for-64 (26.6 percent) from the floor, including 8-for-30 (26.7) from three-point range. Newark shot 20-for-44 (45.5) from the floor and held a 37-36 edge off the boards.