Mahwah, NJ… Senior Jill Nealon (Whitehouse Station, NJ/Huntderon Central) netted a hat trick as The College of New Jersey field hockey team collected a 6-0 shutout win at Ramapo College on Tuesday.
 
The victory moved TCNJ to 13-2 overall on the season and 4-2 in the New Jersey Athletic Conference, while the Roadrunners fell to 1-4 in conference play at 3-8 overall.
 
The ninth-ranked Lions scored three goals in each half with all of the goals in the opening frame coming in the initial 11:04 of the contest. Sophomore Victoria Martin (Clark, NJ/Arthur L. Johnson) got TCNJ rolling with an unassisted goal 4:05 into the game and 1:45 later Nealon netted her first off of a feed from sophomore Erin Healy (Spring Lake Heights, NJ/Manasquan).
 
Nealon closed out the scoring in the first half coverting on a penalty stroke making it a 3-0 lead.
 
In the second half, Nealon made it three straight goals off of her stick knocking in a pass from Christy Wham (Robbinsville, NJ/Robbinsville) on a penalty corner. That was her 21^st of the season and tied her for the 10^th best single-season total in program history with four games remaining in the regular season.
 
A pair of Lions then netted their first collegiate goals to cap of the scoring with Jordan Calderone (Collingswood, NJ/Collingswood) getting the first and Cortney Natalicchio (New Egypt, NJ/New Egypt) getting the second. Sophomore Lauren Pigott (Jobstown, NJ/Northern Burlington) picked up an assist on the first of those goals and senior Camille Passucci (Denville, NJ/Morris Knolls) added one on the second.
 
In goal for the Lions, freshman Roisin Dougherty (Ocean City, NJ/Ocean City) needed to make only one save in picking up her seventh shutout of the season.
 
TCNJ remains on the road on Thursday, October 18 with a big non-conference match-up at 10^th-ranked Messiah College.