GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Fairfield University Baseball team rallied from an 8-1 deficit and scored in four-straight innings but fell one run short in an 8-7 final score in the middle game of the series at UNC Greensboro. Five different Stags combined for 6.1 shutout innings while striking out eight and allowing just one hit. Matt Bergevin led the offense with three hits which included the team's first home run of the season.
 
The Stags would plate the game's first run in the top of the first after Paul Catalano walked and Dean Ferrara singled to start the frame. After Catalano advanced to third on a wild pitch, Ethan Hibbard brought him home with a RBI groundout.
 
The Spartans would answer back in a big way with three runs in the bottom half and five more in the second to grab an 8-1 lead.
 
Fairfield would start their comeback in the third when Bergevin launched the first pitch he saw over the right field wall for the team's first long ball of the campaign. The Stags would score at least one run in five of the final seven innings.
 
The Stags would mount a two-out rally in the fifth with a Bergevin single and a Hibbard walk led to a RBI single by Matt Bucciero.
 
The team would find more two out magic in the sixth with back-to-back RBI extra base hits with a Ferrara double and a Bergevin triple.
 
Fairfield capped their scoring in the eighth with a Hibbard RBI groundout to put the score at 8-7. The Stags would get the tying run on base in the ninth with a Nick Sturino leadoff single but could not get him around to score.
 
While the offense was trying to make their comeback, the Fairfield pitching settled down the Spartan bats by allowing just one hit and no walks in the final six innings. Kyle Lesler and Kevin Kell each tossed two shutout innings with Kell punching out three. Jack Erbeck struck out three in the ninth and Bo Buckley worked a perfect eighth.
 
The Stags will look to salvage the final game of the series tomorrow at noon.