POMONA, N.Y. – Manhattan dropped a Friday afternoon contest to Fairfield 12-3 at Clover Stadium.
Fairfield (18-14, 8-3 MAAC) used three homers to power its offense.
Pete Durocher tied the game at one in the bottom of the second inning when he rounded the bases for an inside-the-park home run. The Manhattan (15-16, 6-5) right-fielder blasted a ball off the right-center field wall that bounced off the and past the Fairfield center fielder.
The Stags would break the tie in the fourth with an RBI double from Paul Catalano. Fairfield added one more in the fifth before scoring six in the sixth. Fairfield capped the six-run sixth inning with back-to-back homers from Matt Venuto and Mike Caruso to make it 9-1.
Manhattan got two back in the eighth on a groundout and a
Jacob Radziewicz RBI single that scored Durocher.
Charlie Pagliarini supplied the final three runs of the day for the Stags with a home run to right-center that cleared the billboards beyond the fence. The Stags' third baseman finished with four RBI.
Durocher was the lone Jasper with multiple hits and runs scored.
Bryson Cafaro tossed seven innings of one-run baseball for the Stags. The left-hander stuck out five to pick up his third win of the season.
Jordan Warecke started for the Jaspers and lasted 4.2 innings while striking out six Stags.
The two teams return to action at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Clover Stadium for the final game of the three-game weekend series.
