EWING, N.J. – The No. 4/11 TCNJ baseball team scored a season-high 17 runs as it defeated Stockton, 17-1, on Thursday afternoon at George Ackerman Park. The Lions scored runs in six of their eight at-bats, all crooked numbers. The Lions scored those runs on 16 hits, and 10 different Lions had at least one hit.
 
Andrew Rowan moved to 4-0 on the season, pitching a complete game while allowing just five hits and no walks, barely surpassing 100 total pitches. He didn't find himself in much trouble all day, allowing three of those hits and an unearned run in the top of the third, and the other two hits with two outs in the ninth inning.
 
The offense came early, and it came often. Tommy McCarthy, Gary Otten and Ryan Fischer all had RBIs in the top of the first inning to stake TCNJ to a 3-0 lead. Fischer and David Cardona III led the Lions with three hits apiece.
 
TCNJ had six extra base hits in the game. Matt Giacose had two of them, tripling in the bottom of the fourth and doubling home a run in the bottom of the sixth.
 
Giacose's two-bagger capped a run of three straight doubles for the Lions in the sixth. Otten doubled home Cardona to make it 9-1. Fischer followed with a two-run double down the left field line to make it 11-1, and Giacose brought home Fischer to make it 12-1. That capped a five-run sixth inning for TCNJ, its biggest offensive frame of the day.
 
Steven Massaro and Grant Sible each recorded their first career hits. The Lions also had 11 walks and three hit batsmen.
 
The highlights started before the game as TCNJ President Dr. Kathryn A. Foster threw out the ceremonial first pitch, decked in a TCNJ baseball jersey.
 
The Lions return to action on Friday afternoon in the back-end of their home-and-home with Stockton. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m.