EWING, N.J. – Another early explosion paved the way for the No. 7 TCNJ lacrosse team to score a 20-12 victory over St. Mary's (MD) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday in Ewing.

Jennifer LaRocca scored five goals and added three assists to break the single-season points record and registered the 200^th point of her career to help the Lions (16-2) advance to a third-round date with No. 16 Cortland, a 14-11 winner over No. 25 Roger Williams. The two sides will face off on Saturday in a regional that also includes No. 1 Salisbury and Kenyon.

Ally Tobler continued her pursuit of the single-season goals record with a half-dozen more, and Anna Wright netted all four of her goals in the first quarter as TCNJ roared out to a quick 6-0 lead.

The Lions took almost no time to wrest control of the contest, scoring six times in the first six minutes of action – and on nine of their 10 first-quarter shot attempts. Devlin started the fireworks with a goal after working through traffic in front of the cage, and Wright kicked off a sequence of three goals in 83 seconds with a free-position bouncer.

LaRocca dished to Tobler on a free-position opportunity for a quick shot into the back of the cage, and the senior ignited another marker off a free-position re-start with a pass to Wright, who fed a cutting Tobler for her 75^th goal of the season and a 4-0 lead, forcing an early Seahawks timeout.

The stoppage did not have the intended effect for St. Mary's, which conceded back-to-back Wright goals in a 12-second span to spot the Lions a 6-0 lead at the 8:56 mark of the period.

St. Mary's (13-6), fresh off its first NCAA Tournament victory since 2008, got on the board just shy of the halfway point of the quarter and scored the next as well to cut the margin to 6-2.

Jillian Westerby pulled momentum back on the TCNJ side with a tough maneuver through traffic, and LaRocca utilized a stunning spin move to free up an alley right down the lane for another goal just 19 seconds later. After the Seahawks got one back, Wright netted her fourth goal of the quarter on an assist from Westerby to make it 9-3.

Natalie Berry started the second-quarter scoring with a tremendous bit of individual brilliance, stripping a St. Mary's player on a clear attempt and taking it the other way before using a spin move to get free for a shot and an uncontested finish.

Tobler netted the last two goals of the half, closing the scoring with a one-cut move past a defender and a low shot into the back of the cage to make it 12-4 with 2:59 to play.

Julia Charest was sensational in the first half, collecting six saves. That number included a sequence of four stops in one second-quarter possession.

Tobler's free-position bounce shot extended the margin to 13-5 early in the third, but the Seahawks started to make inroads. The visitors snatched back three consecutive goals to close within 13-8 before another TCNJ quick-strike double flipped the momentum back. Berry burned a defender on the right side and dashed all the way in for a finish into a wide-open right side of the cage with 3:22 to play, and 14 seconds later Devlin controlled a draw and passed ahead to LaRocca for a sprint in on cage and a hard shot into the back of the cage for her record-setting 124^th point of the season. LaRocca eclipsed Leigh Mitchell's mark of 123 from the 2011 campaign.

LaRocca scored on a feed from Larissa Hatzold at the end of a man-up possession in the first minute of the fourth, then hit Devlin in stride for another goal to make it 17-8 with 11:37 left.

LaRocca then scored back-to-back goals 21 seconds to extend the lead to double-digits (19-9) with 9:49 to go, the second of which came on a brilliant individual move to free herself for a shot. That goal gave her an even 200 points for her career, becoming the 21st player in program history to hit that milestone.

The Seahawks went on another three-goal run to get within 19-12 before Tobler capped the scoring on a top-shelf laser with 5:33 left.

TCNJ held a slight edge in shots (38-32) and shots on goal (29-21), and also controlled a 22-14 advantage on the draw. Sabrina Phillips led that effort with eight draw controls, while Tobler and Westerby chipped in four each.

Charest finished with 10 saves, one more than her Seahawks counterpart. Madison Wernik and Berry logged three ground balls each.