Box Score  
 
SAN ANTONIO, TX—NJIT graduate student Shakia Robinson recorded her fourth double-double of the season with 10 points and 10 rebounds, while junior guard Alyssa Albanese scored a season-high 16 points for the visiting Highlanders in a 57-48 defeat of University of the Incarnate Word Saturday afternoon at the McDermott Center in women's basketball action.
 
NJIT, with back-to-back victories after topping first-time foe and NCAA Division I newcomer Incarnate Word, improves to 7-20 on the season with two games remaining on the 2014 schedule, while Incarnate Word drops to 8-16.
 
Robinson shot 5-for-11 from the field and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds for the visiting Highlanders, recording her fourth double-double of the season.
 
Robinson, who played three seasons at the University of Massachusetts before using her final year of playing eligibility this year as grad student with the Highlanders, raised her career scoring total to 988 points between the two schools. She has two career games remaining to reach the coveted 1,000-point career plateau.
 
Albanese, the Highlanders point guard, shot 3-for-8 from the field and 9-of-10 from the free throw line, scoring a season-high 16 points, three shy her career-high 19 points vs. Texas-Pan American on January 12, 2013.  The junior guard dished out a game-high 5 assists and pulled down four rebounds for the Highlanders.

Last year, on the way to the 2013 Great West Conference championship, the Highlanders went 5-0 against Texas-based teams in the GWC under then-first year head coach Steve Lanpher (2-0 vs. Houston Baptist; 3-0 vs. UTPA, with a regular season sweep, plus a win in the GWC Tournament semifinal). Saturday's game at Incarnate Word was the first this season for NJIT against a squad from the Lone Star State.
 
Kosisio Mora led Incarnate Word with a game-high 18 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field and 6-of-10 from the free throw line. while adding eight rebounds. Her twin sister, Ifunanya, was the other double-figure scorer for the Cardinals with 11 points.
 
NJIT scored the first points of the contest on a jumper in the paint by Uju Nwankwo in a first half that saw three ties and two lead changes.  NJIT's Albanese broke a 16-16 tie at the 4:49 mark after sinking a three-pointer for a 19-16 advantage.
 
Incarnate Word's Kososio Mora hit one of two from the free throw line, cutting the lead to two, 19-17, but NJIT's Denisa Domiterova knocked down a three-pointer from the left side with the shot clock winding down to push the Highlander lead up to five, 22-17.
 
The Cardinals slimmed the Highlander lead to three, 22-19, on a pair of free throws by Kosisio Mora, but the Highlanders closed out the first period on an 8-2 spurt for a 30-21 half time advantage.
 
To open the second half, NJIT's Kim Tullis extended the lead to double-digits, 33-21, knocking down a three-pointer at the 17:33 mark.  Incarnate Word rallied back, scoring seven unanswered points from the 12:17 mark to 10:44 mark and cutting the Highlander advantage  to six, 39-33.
 
NJIT's Camerin Spahn came up big off the bench, sinking a three-pointer from the top of the arc at the 9:34 mark, giving the visitors a nine-point advantage, 42-33.
 
The Cardinals scored the next four points, trimming the lead to five, 42-37, just under the 8-minute media mark, but NJIT's Martina Matejcikova pushed the Highlander lead up to eight, 45-37, on her only three-pointer of the game with 7:34 remaining on the clock.
 
Incarnate Word would come as close as six, 50-44, with 47 seconds remaining in the game, after a layup by Kosisio Mora.  But Albanese scored the final six points for NJIT from the free throw line to secure a 57-48 road victory.
 
The Highlanders outscored Incarnate Word, 24-10, on points in the paint, second chance points 14-to-9 and bench points 15-to-5. 
 
NJIT will close out the home portion of its schedule on March 4 when the Highlanders host first-time opponent UMass-Lowell in the Fleisher Athletic Center at 7pm.  In pre-game ceremonies, the Highlanders will honor graduating seniors Uju Nwankwo and Shakia Robinson.