FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- The last home game for the Fairfield University softball team proved to be its best offensive showcase as the Stags used 12 hits to score a season-high 14 runs on their way to a 14-4 win over Central Connecticut in five innings. Kate Robinson, Mikayla Rubin, and Rachel Sieber each had two hits in the game with Sieber picking up a team-best three RBI.
 
Fairfield scored in every inning starting with three runs in the first at-bat. Rubin was the catalyst in that rally, starting the game with a double off the right-field fence to put the Stags' first base runner in scoring position. Amanda Ulzheimer used a productive out to move the runner to third base, which set up Courtney Hankins' sacrifice fly to center field. After Danielle Tringali held Central Connecticut scoreless for the second time, the Stags came to bat in the second and pushed their advantage to 3-0.

With runners on first and second, Sieber stroked her first hit with a single up the middle that doubled the team's lead to 2-0. Rubin came to the plate for the second time, this time having runners on base, and produced a single to the right side that chased home Hannah Futo and raised the score to 3-0. Central Connecticut broke through in the top of the third, picking up a run off a sacrifice fly to make the score 3-1.

In the bottom of the inning, the Stags broke the game open with eight runs off four hits to push the score to 11-1. Sieber was at the forefront of another rally, this time sending a single to left field that scored the first two runs of the inning. Ulzheimer brought home the third run when she worked out a bases loaded walk. Hankins was the next Stag at the plate with the bases loaded and despite striking out, brought home a run when the third strike skipped past the catcher. Hankins beat the throw to first base so the inning continued with the score 6-1. With the base still loaded, Angelina McGuire was hit by a pitch to force hone another run. Olaff laced a two-run single later in the inning, while Kate Robinson closed out the inning with an RBI single.

Central Connecticut fought back in the top of the fourth inning by scoring three unearned runs that brought the score back to seven runs, 11-4, which kept the game going for another half inning. Fairfield responded with three runs of its own in the bottom of the fourth inning. The first of those runs came home when Cythina Meringer crossed the plate off a wild pitch. Alisha Marshall, who replaced Rubin defensively in the top half of the inning, sliced a two-run single to right field that closed out the scoring.

Maddie Roberts, who relieved starter Tringali in the top of the fourth inning, closed out the game with a scoreless fifth inning to end the game at 14-4.

Today's game was the final non-conference game of the season as the Stags close out with six Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) games. The stretch starts with a doubleheader at Quinnipiac University on Saturday before ending it with a trip to Buffalo for doubleheaders against Canisius and Niagara.