EWING, N.J. – A trio of home runs and a pair of pitching gems helped the TCNJ softball team to a sweep of Stockton in an NJAC twin bill on Tuesday.

Lauren Conroy went yard in both ends of the doubleheader and Kaci Neveling hit the first round-tripper of her career for the Lions (15-4, 3-1), who made the most of a surprise home series that was originally scheduled to be played at Stockton but was moved to Dr. June Walker Field due to rain in Galloway.

Ally Schlee and Gillian Roberts worked complete games in the circle, with Roberts delivering a two-hit shutout in the nightcap as TCNJ followed up a 5-1 victory in Game 1 with an 8-0 decision in five innings in Game 2.

Game 1: TCNJ 5, Stockton 1
Schlee worked herself into trouble in the first, walking the bases loaded before freezing the No. 6 hitter for a called third strike to prevent an early Stockton lead.

The Lions struck quickly in the bottom half, opening the scoring when Julia Mayernik singled through the left side and Marina Costello, who had laced a one-out single, came home when the left fielder overthrew the cut-off. Julia Kinnally then doubled the lead three pitches later with a hard-hit RBI single to center.

TCNJ tacked on in the second with Costello's RBI groundout scoring Yard after the rookie had led off the frame with a seeing-eye single through the left side.

Stockton got on the board on Lilly James' RBI single in the top of the third, but Schlee managed to strand runners on second and third with only one out to keep the home side comfortably in front.
Conroy stretched the advantage to 5-1 in the sixth, jumping on the first pitch she saw and sending a towering two-run shot over the fence in straightaway center field.

Schlee worked around a leadoff hit in the sixth and pitched a 1-2-3 seventh to preserve her unbeaten record with another complete-game effort. She surrendered five hits and did not walk a batter after the first, striking out four. The Ospreys were just 2-for-12 with runners on and 1-for-8 with two outs.

Jaclyn Carifi extended her hitting streak to 15 games with a base hit to left in the first.

Hillenbrand finished 2-for-3 with a run scored.

Game 2: TCNJ 8, Stockton 0 (5)
TCNJ put up multiple runs in the first inning again, with Neveling ripping a leadoff laser to left and swiping second before Julia Mayernik placed a bouncing ball perfectly through the left side to put runners on the corners with no outs.

Kinnally's RBI groundout plated Neveling with the game's first run, and Mayernik scampered home on a wild pitch to make it 2-0.

Conroy made it a two-homer day in the second, bouncing a solo shot off the top of the fence in left-center and over for her 15^th career dinger.

Camryn Davies turned in a nifty defensive play in the fourth, backhanding a grounder up the middle and flipping to Kinnally covering second for the force-out.

After Kayla Hillenbrand reached on an error and took second on a wild pitch, Carifi switched places with her with an RBI double to left-center, stretching her hitting streak to 16 games. Davies' sac bunt up the first-base line then scored Carifi to make it 5-0.

Neveling then brought the game into mercy-rule territory, turning on a pitch and sending it just over the fence in right-center for a three-run homer, the first of her career.

Roberts was highly efficient, allowing just two hits with a walk and three strikeouts, all in the fifth inning. She needed just 69 pitches to cut through the Stockton lineup in a nice outing.

TCNJ continues NJAC play at NJCU on Saturday.