Ewing, NJ... The College of New Jersey women's soccer team found its offense on Wednesday night as the Lions posted a 12-0 shutout win over visiting Penn State – Harrisburg.
 
The 16^th-ranked Lions (3-0-2) scored five times in the opening half and then added seven more in the final 45 minutes.
 
The loss dropped the Nittany Lions to 0-3-1 on the season.
 
Junior Taylor Lusardi (Randolph, NJ/Randolph) got TCNJ off to a great start converting a penalty 5:01 into the game and then padded that lead with another goal less than four minutes later.
 
Junior Lauren Malajian (Haworth, NJ/Northern Valley) then made it 3-0 with her first goal of the season with an assist from freshman Marykate Sullivan (Toms River, NJ/Toms River East).
 
Lusardi completed the hat trick 31:12 into the period and Malajian tacked on her second of the game as the Lions staked claim to a 5-0 lead at the half. Malajian's second goal was set up by freshman Jenna Loeser (Ocean Twp., NJ/Ocean Twp.).
 
The Lions erupted for seven goals in the second with freshman Kate Galgano Toms River, NJ/Toms River North) scoring 1:04 in. Sophomore Elizabeth Thoresen (Colts Neck, NJ/Red Bank Catholic) then netted two goals in 55 seconds to make it 8-0. All three of those goals came in the opening 3:03 of the period.
 
The goals kept coming as Sullivan and freshman Martha Papapetrou (Bergenfield, NJ/Bergenfield) each scored, before sophomore Hannah Richman (Egg Harbor Twp., NJ/Egg Harbor Twp.) capped off the night two goals of her own.
 
TCNJ's defense did not allow a shot on goal as senior Jessica Weeder (Lebanon, NJ/North Hunterdon) earned the win.
 
The Lions open New Jersey Athletic Conference play this weekend when Rutgers-Newark visits Ewing for a 1 p.m. start in TCNJ's Soccer Complex.