FAIRFIELD, Conn. --- The Fairfield University softball stayed close with Boston University for most of the afternoon but ended up dropping both ends of today's home opening doubleheader with the Terriers, falling by a 9-0 count in the first game and 2-0 in the night cap.

The first game's score is deceiving because the game was just a 3-0 affair before the visitors tacked on six runs in the top of the seventh inning. Pitcher Allie Bridgman gave up a pair of runs in the opening inning but settled into a routine that kept Boston University within reach until the last at-bat. She scattered eight hits through six frames and allowed just two earned runs during that stretch.

The Stags' offense faced a pitching staff that has been nearly untouchable as of late, a trio that allowed two runs once, one run once, and no runs four times over the last six games. Kaitlin Hoffman was the first Stag to pick up a hit in the opener, a perfectly placed ball down the right field line that ended up as a triple. Morgan Sylvestre added an infield single to the Fairfield box score while Delaney Whieldon posted a seventh-inning single to complete the team's three hits.

In the second game, pitcher Samantha Lindsay mixed speeds and locations effectively through her seven-inning performance to keep the Terriers in check for most of the game. The only blip on the afternoon came in the second inning when Boston University strung together four two-out hits – two singles and two doubles – to touch the senior for both runs she allowed in the game. From that point, Lindsay only allowed one other hit in the other six innings of work.

"Sam really stepped it up today," Head Coach Julie Brezinski said. "She knows we have been struggling so she took it upon herself be a leader today. She showed a lot of grit in the circle. BU is a good hitting team and squeaked out a couple runs early but she really settled down and kept them off balance for most of the game."

Fairfield managed just one hit off a pair of Boston University pitchers, which came from, sliced a ball up the middle that was gloved but no play could be made. Bridgman served as the team's other base runner when she worked out a walk to start the third inning before a double play erased the base runner.

The Fairfield University softball team will not focus on in-state games for the next two weeks, beginning with a pair of games next week at Central Connecticut State University on Wednesday and at Sacred Heart University on Thursday. The intrastate play continues with two more games the following weeks that will take the Stags to the University of Hartford on March 28 and Yale University on March 29.