The Fairfield softball team saw its season come to an end Thursday as the host Stags dropped two games in the MAAC tournament, losing to Iona 6-3 in eight innings before being eliminated by Siena 4-0 in their second game.
In the first game, the Stags were just two outs away from victory before Iona pitcher Carly Argyle hit a two-run homer in the top of the seventh to tie the game. The Gaels then used four hits and two Fairfield errors to score three times in the top of the eighth for the win.
Fairfield (20-22) scored all its runs in the fifth on Lauren Filicia's sacrifice fly and a Tori Reed's two-RBI hit.
The second game was scoreless until Siena scored twice in the bottom of the fifth on a hit and three Fairfield errors and put the game out of reach with two more runs in the sixth on four hits.
In the first round of the ECC baseball playoffs in Brookhaven, N.Y., fourth-seeded Bridgeport fell to top-seeded and host Dowling 14-0. With the loss UB (17-27-1) will play St. Thomas Aquinas in an elimination game this morning at 9. Dowling (32-13) faces Molloy at noon.
The Golden Lions scored two runs in both the first and second innings and blew the game open with 10 runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Dowling starter and two-time ECC Pitcher of the Year Tyler Badamo worked seven scoreless innings in which he allowed six hits (all singles) with nine strikeouts and one walk. UB starter Brian O'Keefe of Milford (5-7) took the loss.
Freshman Dylan Steigerwald had two hits for the Purple Knights.