NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- After winning four straight games, the Stags softball team dropped a pair of games to in-state foe Yale University by 5-1 and 8-1 scores on the road. Kristina Lingo posted three hits in the doubleheader, including a pair of hits in the second game.

The two teams were locked in a scoreless game through the first four-plus innings of the opener before Yale broke through in the bottom of the fifth inning. Chelsey Locarno broke the scoreless tie with a two-out base hit. The Bulldogs blew the game open in their next at-bat by sending home four unearned runs to take a 5-0 lead into the final inning. The Stags broke up the shutout with a run in the top of the seventh, as Lingo doubled, took third on a ground out to first, and scored on a wild pitch.

Yale jumped out to a 3-0 lead over the first three innings, the most damage coming from a two-run single in the second inning from McKynlee Westman. Fairfield made the score 3-1 in the next inning when Lingo singled and came home following Meghan Borst's double. The Bulldogs put the game out of reach with five runs in the bottom of the fourth inning which pushed Yale's to seven runs at 8-1.

Fairfield returns to action this weekend when it travels to Siena College in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference doubleheader on Saturday.