SCRANTON, Pa. – The No. 10 TCNJ women's lacrosse team had four different players score at least three goals as the Lions opened the 2022 season with a big 16-4 road win at Scranton on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Anna Wright led the TCNJ offensive attack with five goals. Jennifer LaRocca had a team-leading seven points, including three goals. Ally Tobler and Larissa Hatzold were the other three-goal scorers for the Lions.
 
The day got off to a less-than-auspicious start for TCNJ, as Scranton's Caroline Miller opened the scoring just 1:04 into play. That lead didn't even last for a minute. Hatzold scored just 37 seconds later to knot the match at a goal apiece, and it set off a wave of TCNJ scoring in the first quarter.
 
LaRocca scored twice, sandwiching a Tobler tally to give the Lions a 4-1 lead with 5:05 remaining in the first. Hatzold tallied her second goal of the period on a man-up opportunity with 3:12 to play, and Tobler rounded out the scoring with her second of the quarter to make it 6-1 with 30 seconds left in the period.
 
LaRocca assisted on both Tobler goals in the first quarter, and she added two more helpers in the second. Veronika O'Donnell made it 7-1 with 11:21 left, and after a Scranton score and an unassisted tally by Wright, LaRocca got her fourth assist of the game when she set up Hatzold with 4:40 left to make it 9-2.
 
Jillian Westerby rounded out the first-half scoring with an unassisted goal at 2:55 to make it 10-2.
 
Wright scored three more goals in the third period, and Tobler and LaRocca each scored one as the Lions led, 15-3, after three. Wright scored her fifth goal as the lone TCNJ marker in the fourth quarter.
 
TCNJ goalie Julia Charest made nine saves to earn the victory, including five in the second quarter as the Lions built upon their lead.
 
Madison Wernik had a game-high three ground balls. Anna Devlin led the way with seven draw controls, and Sabrina Phillips had four.
 
TCNJ returns to action when it hosts Lebanon Valley on Saturday at 1 p.m.