FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The past week has been full of individual milestones for the Fairfield University Baseball team and that theme continued on Tuesday as senior centerfielder Drew Arciuolo became the eighth Stag in program history to reach 200 career hits with a first inning single. Arciuolo reached the milestone less than a week after teammate Kevin Radziewicz reached the plateau.
 
"It's pretty cool," Arciuolo said. "It's something I didn't want to think about coming into the game but it is something I could not have done without my teammates."
 
The milestone hit was the first hit of the ballgame for the Stags (19-23), who would end up scoring three runs in the first. After Arciuolo's single, Mitch Williams followed with a double and Drew Blake would bring them all home with his team-leading sixth home run of the spring.
 
NJIT (18-19) would tie the game in their half of the second, capped by a RBI single by second baseman Tom Brady. But the Stags and Arciuolo would respond. With a runner on, Arciuolo lifted a fly ball into center that the centerfielder tried to dive for but the ball got by him and Arciuolo hustled all the way home for his first career inside-the-park home run. That score gave Fairfield a 5-3 advantage.
 
Trey McLoughlin, who earned his third-straight victory, would secure that lead as he allowed just two hits through the rest of his career-high six inning performance. At one point, McLoughlin had retired seven-straight batters.
 
Fairfield gave him more run support with a three spot in the fourth on an infield RBI single by Arciuolo and Tom Ryan hustling home on a wild pitch.
 
The final run for the Stags came in the sixth on a homer by Jack Gethings.
 
Arciuolo led the Stags with three hits (he now has seven base hits in his last two games) and three RBI. Gethings crossed the plate three times, the most on the squad.
 
The Stags are back in action this weekend when they host Iona for a three-game series. Before Saturday's noon doubleheader, the Stags will honor their five-member senior class of Arciuolo, Radziewicz, Blake, Williams, and David Sacco.