POMONA, N.Y. – Bowen Baker went 6.1 innings of brilliant relief but Brian Young and the Rider Broncs silenced the Fairfield University Baseball team's bats as the Stags fell to the Broncs 6-3 on Thursday. With the loss, the Stags will next play in an elimination game against either Quinnipiac or Canisius tonight at 7pm.
 
Baker was the highlight for the Stags as he kept Fairfield in the game through 6.1 innings allowing just two runs on five hits. He entered in the third inning and would not give the ball up until the top of the ninth. He tossed four scoreless frames during that stretch, allowing only a single run in the sixth and ninth innings.
 
The Broncs scored five of the game's first six runs with Fairfield scratching across a run in the second on a Rider error.
 
Fairfield would get runners on base in the next three innings but could not find the big hit to get them home. The Stags had two runners on with one out in the third but Young would get the next two hitters to end the mini-threat.
 
With the score 5-1 in the eighth, Charlie Pagliarini provided the biggest hit for the Stags with a two-run homer to right center field to inch the Stags closer at 5-3. It was Pagliarini's 22nd homer of the season, tying Canisius' Kevin Mahoney for third most in a single season in conference history. He also added his 90th RBI extending his MAAC single season record.
 
Rider would add a run in the ninth and the Stags would go in order in the ninth to complete the 6-3 final score.
 
Griffin Watson led the team with a pair of hits out of the leadoff spot. The Stags will now drop to an elimination game tonight at 7pm against either Quinnipiac or Canisius.