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The Fairfield University men's lacrosse team plays its final non-conference games of the season this week. The Stags make a one-game stop at home to host Lafayette on Tuesday, before heading on the road Saturday to play Colgate.
Fairfield enters this week at 6-0 on the year and ranked 13th in both national polls. Lafayette enters the week at 2-3, having fallen to Navy in its last outing, while Colgate begins the week at 5-1 and ranked 17th in the nation. The Raiders will play at Binghamton on Tuesday, after having won 13-9 at Holy Cross on Saturday.
Sunday's win over Vermont gave the Stags their sixth consecutive victory, equaling the program record. The 1997 and 1998 squads both won six games, but with no more than half of those being road games. The Stags are 2-0 at home this season and 4-0 on the road. Fairfield's 6-0 start is the best in program history, surpassing the 2005 squad's 5-0 start.
The Stags are one of only five teams that remain unbeaten through games of Sunday. Fairfield, at 6-0, is joined amongst those ranks by fellow ECAC foe Loyola (5-0). Virginia is 7-0 on the year, while Johns Hopkins and UMass are both 6-0 entering the week.
Michael Roe had a big day in the Stags win over Vermont Sunday and earned his second ECAC Specialist of the Week award as a result. He went a career-best 20-23 at the face-off X, helping result in a pair of goals that were spread by seven seconds or less. The sophomore transfer also picked a career-best 11 ground balls. He has now won 71 face-offs this season and his .664 winning percentage is good for third in the nation. His face-off win total is more than 60 percent of the Stags total, 116, from last season. Roe now leads the team in ground balls as well, at 24, ranking 52nd in the nation.
John Snellman has a pair of streaks going entering the week. He has scored at least one goal in 16 consecutive games, dating back to March 11, 2011, which is tied for seventh longest in the nation. With his three goals against Vermont, Snellman now has a hat trick in four consecutive games, and in five of six games this season. He has scored a team-best 17 goals this season, which is four shy of his personal-best, and team-leading, 21, from last year. Snellman is second on the team with 18 total points and is tied for the team lead with a pair of man-up goals.
Fairfield and Lafayette are meeting for the sixth time with the Stags going 2-3 in those games. The teams have traded wins on the others home field in the past two seasons, with Fairfield winning 8-4 in Easton, after falling 15-10 at home in 2010. The series began in 1994 with a Lafayette 10-6 win at Fairfield and continued a year later when the Leopards won 16-9 at home. The Stags got their first series win in 1996, 18-7, in a game played at Lake Brantley High School in Florida.
Fairfield and Colgate are meeting for the seventh time in the Stags varsity history, with the series knotted 3-3. The Stags dropped an 8-7 decision at home last season after winning 10-8 at Colgate in 2010. Saturday's meeting will be the fourth consecutive season the two teams have played, with the Raiders winning the first of this stretch, 13-12, at Fairfield. The first meeting was a 23-10 Colgate win in the 1997 ECAC Tournament. The Stags earned their first win in the 1998 ECAC Tournament, defeating Colgate 9-7 in the championship game. The Stags also won in 2004, 9-8, in Vero Beach, Fla.
