Ewing, NJ... The College of New Jersey softball team made quick work of visiting Haverford College using an eight-run fourth inning lifting them to a 13-1 victory over the Fords on Thursday.

The Lions also scored twice in the opening inning and three times in the second for their biggest offensive output at home this season in the five-inning win. In all, eight players recorded hits in the win.

The win moves TCNJ to 17-5 on the season, while the Fords fell to 6-18.

Freshman pitcher Austin Leigh (Fairfield, NJ/West Essex) was the beneficiary of TCNJ's performance at the plate as she improved to 3-0 on the mound with her first complete game. She scattered four hits and struck out three.

The Lions didn't waste any time getting onto the scoreboard plating a pair of runs in their half of the first. Sophomore Kelly Hommen (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) drove in the first run with a double and center and she scored one batter later as sophomore Liz Huttner (Princeton Junction, NJ/West Windsor-Plainsboro South) doubled in almost exact same spot scoring making it a 2-0 lead.

The hosts extended pushed the margin to 5-0 in the second as sophomore Ashley Sogluizzo (Middletown, NJ/Middletown South) brought in Caitlyn Seamster (Edison, NJ/John P. Stevens), before Colleen Cawley (Riverton, NJ/Holy Cross) plated two more runs with a well-placed single.

Haverford trimmed one run off that lead in the third as the Fords plated an unearned run.

TCNJ had its final big inning in the fourth scoring eight times as freshman Kristen Lake (Readington, NJ/Hunterdon Central) got things rolling with a RBI single and Seamster made it 7-1 after being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. A walk by Michelle Casale (Middlesex, NJ/Middlesex) forced in another run before two more runs crossed the plate on a Haverford error. The final three runs came when Casale covered the distance between third and home on a wild pitch, Cawley had a RBI single, and Hommen drove home a run with a double to right making it a 13-1 game.

Hommen had a big game going 3-for-3 with two runs scored and driving in two more, while Cawley had a pair of hits of three RBI.

TCNJ returns to New Jersey Athletic Conference play on Saturday heading to Montclair State University of a pair of games.