EWING, N.J. - The 22nd-ranked TCNJ field hockey team celebrated its Senior Day in shutout fashion Saturday afternoon, blanking Ramapo, 7-0 in the Lions' final conference game of the regular season.
 
TCNJ (11-4, 5-1 NJAC) wasted no time opening the scoring in Saturday's contest, with just 100 seconds having ticked off the clock before the Lions took the lead on their second corner of the afternoon.
 
Julia Neff inserted the ball and found Prisha Dhruve at the top of the circle. The sophomore combined with Rachael Tetzlaff to find Jadyn Huff, who took a touch and fired a shot that took a deflection on its way into the cage to give TCNJ an early, 1-0 advantage.
 
Despite firing off nine more shots before the opening quarter's end, it was the Roadrunners' (3-11, 0-5 NJAC) Sam Fried standing on her head between the posts to keep it a once score game entering the first break.
 
The Lions would take control of the game in the second period, with Huff earning herself a brace on a feed from Mackenzie Hart before the senior found the back of the cage herself three minutes later to balloon TCNJ's lead to 3-0 in the opening seven minutes of the frame. Following in Hart's footsteps shortly thereafter was Emma Jordan, who scored her second collegiate goal at the 25:08 mark when the senior found herself with a loose ball at the near post and slotted it past Fried and in, giving the Lions a 4-0 lead they would carry into halftime.
 
With the game already out of reach, TCNJ added goals from Kara Wilson and Ali Simmons in the third before scoring its seventh and final goal off the stick of Kendal Justus with nine minutes to go. The Lions would then keep possession for the remainder of the contest, with the final buzzer clinching the 7-0 win.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• TCNJ fell one shot shy of its season high with 37 on the afternoon. Ramapo attempted just one.
• The Lions also held a 7-2 advantage in corners.

NOTES

• Huff's three assists are the most in a single game in her career and push her season total to 11.
  • The junior also set a new career-high with 11 goals after her brace this afternoon.
• Hart extended her goal streak to five games, having scored eight goals in that stretch.
• Justus' , Jordan and Simmons scored their first, second and third goals of the season, respectively.
  • Justus' was the first of her collegiate career.

UP NEXT

• TCNJ is on the road for the final time this regular season Wednesday, Oct. 29 to take on Marywood, with game time scheduled for 4 p.m.