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Camden, NJ — PALUMBO SETS SCHOOL-RECORD WITH SEVEN TREYS, SET SCHOOL RECORD WITH 63 REBOUNDS AS KING'S WOMEN ROUTE RUTGERS-CAMDEN 78-55
CAMDEN, NJ -- King's College junior guard Jenna Palumbo of Hazleton Area 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.