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BOSTON – Sean Lyons hit his first home run of the season and a trio of freshmen pitchers impressed on the mound, but the Northeastern baseball team came up short against Fairfield Wednesday afternoon, 3-2.
 
NU freshmen Nate Borges, Mike Driscoll and Will Jahn combined to hold the Stags (10-11) hitless through 5.2 innings before Jake Salpietro doubled down the leftfield line with two outs in the top of the sixth inning. All three pitchers made their second-career collegiate appearance.
 
Borges walked one and struck out one through the first two innings, and Driscoll followed a walk and a strikeout between the third and fourth innings. Jahn tallied a strikeout in the fifth and another in the sixth before surrendering Fairfield's first hit.
 
Michael Foster (2-for-4, R) led off the home half of the third inning with a single to left field, and Lyons (2-for-4, R, RBI, HR) put the Huskies (13-12) ahead, 2-0, after he cleared the leftfield wall for the second home run of his career.
 
The Stags got on the board in the third inning after Dean Sadik drew a walk and moved to second on a ground out. Ryan Plourde followed with a grounder to third base, but Keith Kelly's throw to first went wide and allowed Sadik to score and cut NU's lead to 2-1.
 
Fairfield posted two runs in the eighth inning to claim its 3-2 lead. Plourde began the rally by drawing a one-out walk and then moved to second on a single by Salpietro. Billy Zolga popped up to centerfield for the innings' second out, but Mac Crispino singled up the middle to score Plourde and tie the game, 2-2, as Salpietro advanced to third on the throw home. Dan Hopkins followed with an RBI single to left field that put the Stags on top for good.
 
The Huskies return to conference action when they travel to Delaware for a three-game series starting Friday, April 4, at 3 p.m.
 
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