The second game of the Hatters baseball series against Fairfield on Saturday afternoon looked remarkably like Friday's first game.
 
The only difference is that Stetson was unable to score against Stags' pitcher Gavin Wallace (3-1), who needed just 98 pitches to go the distance in a 6-0 shutout of the Hatters.
 
The loss was the fourth straight for Stetson and dropped the Hatters to 7-14 on the year. Fairfield improved to 5-9 on the season. The teams will square off one final time on Sunday, with the first pitch slated for noon.
 
Fairfield used three hits and one Stetson error in the first inning to jump on Hatters' starter Jack Perkins (1-3) for a 3-0 lead. Like Friday's game when the Stags did the same against Stetson starter Brooks Wilson, those three runs were all they would need.
 
Catcher Kevin Radziewicz, who had a pair of hits on Friday, delivered a two-run single in the first to follow up on a throwing error by Perkins that allowed the first run to score.
 
Radziewicz picked up his third RBI in the third inning when his ground ball to short scored a run. He had a hand in the Stags' two-run sixth as well when he singled in front of Troy Scocca's home run.
 
The Hatters had chances to score throughout the game, but were never able to get the clutch hit they needed. Austin Bogart led off the second with a double, but was left stranded at third. Jorge Arenas singled to open the third, but was left at second.
 
Colton Lightner reached on a one-out double in the sixth, but never advanced. Kirk Sidwell opened the sixth with a single, but was erased on a double play before Austin Hale and Arenas had back-to-back two-out hits.
 
In the ninth, Jack Gonzalez reached on a one-out single and Hale followed by drawing a walk. Arenas then hit into a game-ending double play.
 
Wallace scattered seven hits and struck out nine in going the distance. Jack Gathings had two hits to go with the two by Radziewicz.
 
The Hatters will try to snap a four-game losing skid on Sunday when they send sophomore Logan Gilbert (2-0) to the mound to face Fairfield senior Tyler Dube (0-1).
 
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