EWING, N.J. – Jenny LaRocca made it a Senior Day to remember, tying the program record with 10 assists and reaching 100 points for the season as the No. 7 TCNJ lacrosse team to a 21-1 rout of Ramapo in Saturday's regular-season finale.
LaRocca was honored alongside
Brianna Hatzold and student manager John Berardi in a pregame ceremony, then played a big role in helping the Lions (13-2, 6-0) end the NJAC campaign in style. She scored two goals to go with her double-digit helpers as TCNJ established a double-digit lead in less than nine minutes.
Ally Tobler scored four goals, while
Anna Wright and
Katherine Naiburg chipped in three apiece, with Naiburg adding an assist to her first career hat-trick.
Wayden Ay,
Anna Devlin, and
Jillian Westerby scored two goals apiece, and Hatzold scored one of her own on her Senior Day.
Devlin racked up nine draw controls, surpassing 100 for the season and becoming just the third player in program history to reach triple figures in a single campaign.
Sabrina Phillips tacked on seven and Westerby six as the Lions controlled a 23-3 advantage in the circle.
The Lions needed a little more than five minutes to amass a 7-0 lead, with LaRocca assisting on three of those tallies and adding a free-position conversion of her own. Wright started the scoring parade a mere 23 seconds in and was followed shortly by Tobler and Devlin.
After LaRocca's eight-meter goal, Tobler made it 5-0 off a turnover forced by Wright. Westerby deposited the first of two first-half tallies before LaRocca assisted on the next four. Her third helper in that span, a pass to a cutting Tobler for a goal that made it 9-0 at the midway point of the stanza, gave her 100 points for the season. LaRocca is the sixth player in program history to eclipse that milestone in a single campaign.
Tobler's fourth of the opening period set off a running clock at the 6:02 mark of the quarter, and TCNJ tacked on another from
Natalie Berry to lead 11-0 after one.
The Lions expanded the margin to 15, with Naiburg assisting on Hatzold's third goal of the season before scoring one of her own on LaRocca's seventh assist of the first half. Ramapo got on the board on a goal by Colleen Mason with 2:31 to play in the second quarter.
Ay started the second-half scoring about five minutes into the third quarter, and Naiburg scored back-to-back goals to stretch the lead to 18-1.
Morgan Vaccaro netted a goal early in the fourth, with LaRocca and Ay capping the scoring. LaRocca's assist on Ay's goal with 1:24 remaining tied her for the single-game record with Leigh Mitchell's 10-assist effort against the Roadrunners in 2012.
TCNJ outshot Ramapo, 35-2, and only had four clearing attempts on the day – all successful. The Lions forced a turnover on 10 of the Roadrunners' 14 clears.
The Lions will be back home for an NJAC semifinal contest with fourth-seeded Kean at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Second-seeded Rowan will host third-seeded Stockton in the other semifinal matchup.