MERION STATION, Pa. – The Saint Joseph's baseball team dropped the finale of its four-game homestand, falling to Fairfield by a 19-5 score in a game that was cut short by darkness on a dreary Tuesday afternoon at Smithson Field.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Saint Joseph's (5-5) took the lead with another big first inning.  Conlan Wall led off with an infield single before Ryan Weingartner hit his league-leading sixth home run of the season to give SJU a 2-0 lead.
 
• Two batters later, Owen Petrich added a solo shot to extend the lead to three before Luke Zimmerman doubled, moved up on a wild pitch, and scored on a groundout by Carter Jagiela to push the lead to 4-0.
 
• Fairfield (1-10) got on the board in the top of the third, halving the Hawk advantage with a pair.  That's where it would stay until the seventh, when the Stags would take the lead with six runs, four of which were unearned.
 
• Weingartner led off the bottom of the seventh with a double and scored on a single by Zimmerman, but the visitors would score 11 times in the eighth to set the final margin.
 
BEHIND THE BOX SCORE
• Aidan Colagrande was the winning pitcher, while Matt McShane took the loss.
 
• Zimmerman was 3-for-4 on the day, while Weingartner added two hits and scored twice.
 
• Joey Gale singled in the bottom of the sixth for his first collegiate hit.
 
UP NEXT
The Hawks hit the road for a three-game series at UNC Wilmington beginning Friday at 6:00 p.m.