EWING, N.J. – The No. 12 TCNJ women's lacrosse team put on a captivating display of offensive dominance in a 23-6 rout of visiting Moravian on Wednesday.
Marissa Lucca went wild for six goals and six assists, a career-high 12 points that left her one short of the single-game program record, and
Ally Tobler matched her with six goals for the Lions (4-0), who scored on their first six shots in posting their highest goal total since a 25-9 win at Moravian in last year's season opener.
After
Veronica Campbell opened the scoring, Lucca single-handedly scored three goals and assisted on another by Tobler in the span of 78 seconds.
Gabriella Roosa's goal on a feed from
CJ Kole extended the margin to 6-0 in just over five minutes before the Greyhounds (2-3) got on the board.
Roosa responded to Moravian's opener with a terrific goal off a spin move, and goals by Kole and Lucca in a 23-second burst put the Lions on top, 9-2, after a scintillating first quarter.
Lucca set up back-to-back Tobler tallies separated by 43 seconds, putting the blue and gold on the brink of a running clock with an 11-2 advantage. The Greyhounds pulled two back, but Roosa netted a feed from Kole and Tobler put up another sequence of back-to-back markers to swell the spread to double digits (14-4) at the midway point of the second.
Lucca assisted on a goal by Roosa before tallying another with 1:13 to go in the period, giving her a whopping five goals and five assists before halftime. She registered a sixth assist on a goal by Campbell in the third and evened her line with a sixth goal at the 12:28 mark of the fourth.
Kelly Nevins and
Ava Steinmetz each scored their first collegiate goals for TCNJ in the second half, while rookie
Abbie Teefy had a goal and an assist for the second game in a row.
Julia Charest played the first half in goal, and
Hailey Wexler made two saves in relief before giving way to
Jordyn Landman, who made her first career save in the final minute.
STANDOUT LIONS
- Lucca landed a new career high in assists and points, and was one off her personal best for goals in a game; she also corralled a career-high eight draw controls
- Tobler had six goals, one assist, and seven draws
- Kole finished with two goals and four assists
- Roosa recorded four goals and an assist
- Campbell produced two goals and two assists
- Tobler also had three ground balls – tied with Kate Martinek for the team lead – and three caused turnovers, one more than Meghan Hogan and Emily Potenza
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- TCNJ owned a massive 35-12 advantage in shots
- The Lions scored on 23 of their 30 on-target shots and assisted on 15 of their 18 non-free position goals
- TCNJ had an 18-15 edge in draw controls and racked up 15 ground balls to six for the Greyhounds
- The Lions committed only nine turnovers
NOTES
- Tobler now sits eight points from 300 for her career
- Charest became the fourth goalie in school history with 50 career wins, and her 63rd career start puts her in a tie for second all-time
UP NEXT
- The Lions take on No. 1 Middlebury next Wednesday
