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FH Celebration vs Kean
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0
Kean KEAN (5-6, 0-1)
7
Winner TCNJ TCNJ (7-3, 1-0)
Kean KEAN
(5-6, 0-1)
0
Final
7
TCNJ TCNJ
(7-3, 1-0)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Kean KEAN 0 0 0 0 0
TCNJ TCNJ 1 1 1 4 7

Game Recap: Field Hockey | | Conner Gilson

#20 Field Hockey Routs Kean, 7-0, in NJAC Opener

EWING, N.J. - The 20th-ranked TCNJ field hockey team opened up NJAC play with a match against Kean Tuesday afternoon, riding a Kara Wilson hat trick to a dominant, 7-0 win over the Cougars.
 
TCNJ (7-3, 1-0 NJAC) put its foot on the gas from the opening pass – the Lions piled on four corners and five shots on goal in the opening six minutes – but saw all of their efforts saved by Kean's Saraya Nelson. TCNJ's Brigitte Racey was forced to make a pair of saves on the other end, the second of which was the 200th of her career, before Prisha Dhruve opened up the scoring at the 12:27 mark.
 
Codie Sciacca sent in her fifth corner insert of the frame and found Jadyn Huff. The junior combined with Rachael Tetzlaff to find Dhruve on the far wing, with the sophomore's shot from just inside the arc finding the bottom corner of the cage to give the Lions a 1-0 lead.
 
TCNJ kept the pressure on in the second, rattling off 15 shots in that frame alone before Wilson's first of a career-best three goals doubled the Lions' advantage with four minutes to go before the break.
 
Mackenzie Hart received a pass inside the arc from Huff and fired a shot toward goal that was saved by Nelson. The senior was the first to the rebound, however, and found Wilson at the near post to slot the ball into the open cage, giving TCNJ a 2-0 lead at halftime.
 
A second goal from Wilson in the third likely put the game out of reach before a four-goal fourth quarter served as the dagger in what ended in a tie for the Lions' largest win of the season.
 
Wilson struck first just under two minutes into the frame, capitalizing on a centering feed from Lindsey Hoffman to complete her hat trick. Huff added herself to the scorer's column with a solo effort 40 seconds later to make it 5-0 before Emma McIlroy's second career goal – this one coming on a deflection off a Dhruve shot – ballooned the lead to six.
 
TCNJ scored its seventh and final goal at the 57:11 mark when Dhruve found Huff on a corner, with the junior's shot squeezing through the Cougars' (5-6, 0-1 NJAC) defenses to give the Lions the 7-0 lead that would hold until the final buzzer.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • TCNJ held a dominant 38-5 advantage in shots, including a 25-3 edge in shots on goal.
  • The Lions also held a 12-1 lead in penalty corners.
  • Hart led all players in shots (11) – a career-high mark – and shots on goal (7).
  • TCNJ forced Kean's Nelson to make a career-best 15 saves in just under 49 minutes of action.
NOTES
  • Wilson's hat trick is the first of her career and marks her third multi-score game in 2025.
    • It's the first hat trick since Rayhanah Ahmed did so in October of 2024.
  • Racey became just the sixth player in program history to eclipse 200 career saves in the win.
  • Dhruve tied her career-high in points (4) coming via one goal and two assists.
  • Huff added two scores to push her season total to eight – tied with Wilson for the team lead.
UP NEXT
  • TCNJ is on the road to take on William Paterson Saturday, Oct. 11 at 12 p.m.
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