TRENTON, N.J. – The TCNJ baseball team headed to Trenton Thunder Ballpark on Tuesday in a special non-conference game that looked on paper to be a tough battle. The Lions were facing Arcadia, a team that earlier on Tuesday found out that it had moved one spot up in the latest national rankings, clocking in at No. 8.

With all the festivities surrounding the game including the TCNJ Dance Team and a color guard provided by the Princeton ROTC at TCNJ, it almost felt as if the result of the game would be secondary. That all changed, though, when the Lions' offense exploded in the second half of the game.

TCNJ crushed the ball – and the Knights – on its way to a 15-1 victory.

Ryan Goodall, the reigning NJAC Player of the Year, went 4-for-5 with two home runs and eight RBIs. The first of his two jacks was a grand slam that gave TCNJ a 5-1 lead in the fifth.

TCNJ matched that output with four more runs in the bottom of the sixth, effectively putting the game out of reach. TCNJ scored all four after two outs as Jack Haynes plated a pair with an RBI single. He beat out the throw at first on a diving play by Arcadia's Justin Massielo, and a heads-up play on the base paths allowed speedy Mike Lagravenis to score from second base on the slow-developing play across the diamond. That made it 7-1.

Chris Reeder followed with a double to score Haynes to make it 8-1 before the Lions added an unearned run.

Michael Schumacher got the ball rolling with an RBI double to score Andrew Fernandez, and Goodall capped the inning with his second homer of the night. This time, he ripped a three-run shot well over the wall in left.

Schumacher was 3-for-5, and Lagravenis was 2-for-4.

Goodall's first homer broke open a 1-1 game after each team scored in the first inning. Arcadia took the early 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning after stringing together a two-out rally that culminated in an RBI double to right center. The Lions made Knights starter Kyle Coffey work in the home half and scratched out a run when Goodall roped a single to left field to tie the game at 1-1. Lagravenis opened the inning by forcing a 12-pitch walk, and Haynes followed with a walk of his own to get TCNJ in business.

The Lions escaped trouble in the top of the fourth inning when a relay throw from Haynes in left to Chris Cote at short threw out a Knights runner at home trying to score from first base off a double down the left field line. Cote's throw to Reeder beat the runner by a good 15 feet.

TCNJ starting pitcher Tom Kelly settled down after allowing the first-inning run. He finished his night with six strong innings, allowing that one run on six hits while striking out four and walking one. Michael Silver earned a three-inning save while not allowing a run.

TCNJ returns to George Ackerman Park and to NJAC action on Thursday when the Lions host Rutgers-Camden at 3:30 p.m.