FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Luke Nomura hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to bring the Fairfield University Baseball team over Yale with a 9-6 final score. Nick Kelly picked up his first collegiate win while Ryan Maiorano recorded his fourth save of the season.
 
"Sheldon did a good job keeping them down and keeping us right there," Head Coach Bill Currier said. "Nomura was just clutch late in the game and we made the plays on defense to keep our pitchers from maximizing the free runners we put on base."
 
The Stags (12-11) scored the first five runs of the game with a pair in the third and three in the fourth. Fairfield drew seven walks inside the first four frames two coming in the third. JP Kuczik and Dom Camera brought in the first two runs with bases loaded walks.
 
Kuczik would bring in another run with a hard hit ball that dropped out of the third baseman's glove followed by a clean RBI single to left by Jake Haarde.
 
Jack Sheldon had his best start of the season holding Yale scoreless for the first four innings. He got out of a bases loaded one-out jam in the fourth by getting the final batter to strike out looking.
 
Matthew Bucciero would tie the game with a solo shot in the sixth before Nomura launched the first pitch he saw in the eighth off the scoreboard, a three-run shot to put the game at 9-6.
 
Maiorano worked out of a bases loaded jam in the ninth to preserve his fourth save of the year.
 
Bucciero and TJ Schmalzle each scored three times.
 
The Stags will hit the road for a MAAC series at Merrimack starting on Thursday at 3pm.