FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- The Fairfield University softball team saw its five-game winning streak come to an end with its 6-3 loss to Sacred Heart University at Pioneer Park on the SHU campus. Six different Stags registered a hit in the contest with two of those hits bringing home a Fairfield run.

The home team jumped out to a 2-0 lead in its first at-bat, courtesy of Hailey Desrosiers' two-run homer that cleared the left-center field fence. Fairfield wasted little time in working its way back into the game with a pair of runs in the top of the second. Makenna DiGuilio, who reached on a fielder's choice, came home with the Stags' first run after Alisha Marshall laced a single to right-center field. Amanda Ulzheimer followed suit with a base hit as the team's next better, chasing Rachel Sieber home with the tying run. 

Sacred Heart rallied for a run in the bottom of the second inning, taking full advantage of four walks in the inning that sent home the team's third run. Lauren Delgadillo collected the fourth free pass of the inning and was credited with the go-ahead RBI. But the lead was short lived as Fairfield posted its third run of the game in its next at-bat. In the top of the third inning, Drew Westford was hit by a pitch which put the tying run on the base paths. She would do just that later in the inning when she touched the plate following DiGuilio's long sacrifice fly to left-center field.

The Pioneers closed out the scoring with three runs in the bottom of the third, all the runs coming as a result of the long ball. Fallon Bevino led off the inning with a solo home run that pushed Sacred Heat into the lead at 4-3. Kelyn Fillmore add insurance runs later in the inning with a two-run homer that pushed the score to 6-3. Neither team would score the rest of the way, leading Sacred Heart to its 20th win of the season.

Fairfield will return to conference play on Friday when it hosts Marist College for a pair of games at Alumni Softball Field. The Fairfield-Marist twin bill was originally scheduled for Sunday but it was moved to Friday because of anticipated inclement weather that day.