EWING, N.J. – The No. 23 TCNJ field hockey team put up a touchdown on Saturday against Juniata, rolling to a 3-0 start with a 7-0 lightning-shortened rout to kick off a five-game home stand.
 
Jadyn Huff had two goals and an assist, Prisha Dhruve reversed those numbers, and Kara Wilson posted her second straight multi-goal effort for the Lions. Mackenzie Hart paired a goal with an assist and Emma McElroy scored the first goal of her career.
 
The game was called with 10:57 remaining in the fourth quarter, with lightning closing in on the stadium.
 
Despite racking up 12 shots in the first quarter alone, it took the home side most of the period to dent the scoreboard. It happened on a gift, as Kara Wilson intercepted a back-pass and slotted home into the corner of the cage for a quick-strike tally that made it 1-0.
 
The Lions poured it on with 13 more attempts in the second stanza, with Hart scoring a goal of her own before getting a stick on Wilson's second marker of the afternoon. McElroy opened her collegiate account with 3:03 to go before halftime, extending the hosts' advantage to 4-0.
 
Huff took over in the third, setting up Dhruve's first goal of the season just a little more than two minutes out of intermission. She then fired home Dhruve's corner insert with 1:24 left in the quarter and tacked on one more for good measure less than a minute later.
 
About four minutes into the fourth quarter, the game was called for lightning.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• TCNJ outshot the Eagles, 33-0, and racked up 15 corners without conceding one to Juniata
• Huff (8), Wilson (7), Dhruve (5), and Hart (5) accounted for 25 of the Lions' shot attempts on the day
• Juniata goalie Kara Stringfellow finished with 10 saves

NOTES

• Huff's multi-goal game was the third of her career, but the first at home; she has a point in all three games this season
• Dhruve notched her third career game with a goal and an assist
• Wilson came into the season with one career goal, and has now scored four in the previous two contests
• Hart registered her first points of the season and her second career outing with at least one goal and one helper
• Brigitte Racey played the first 45 minutes in goal, with Abygail Jamison relieving her to begin the fourth

UP NEXT

• The Lions open a stretch of four straight home dates with Centennial Conference opponents against Haverford on Wednesday