The field is covered in snow, but the season is about to heat up as the Fairfield baseball team returns from playing games down South against #6 Coastal Carolina, Davidson, and Elon. Fairfield fought hard, but came up short in all but one game, completing their season-opening road trip with a 1-7 record. The Stags start off their conference play with a three-game series versus Siena on Friday, March 6th.
To start off the season, the team took a quick trip down South to play against a few tougher opponents in #6 Coastal Carolina, Davidson, and Elon.
The Stags fought hard in these games but came up a bit short. In the first game of the season against Coastal Carolina, Luke Nomura and Matthew Bucciero started the game with back-to-back home runs in the first inning. This gave the Stags a spark, but unfortunately, they could not come through with a win against a top-ranked team and dropped the three-game series. Staying down in North Carolina, they played two series against both Davidson and Elon.
In all of the games down South, the Stags take early leads but make little mistakes that lead to big innings for the opponent.
These games down South aren’t as consequential as conference play, but the Stags have an uphill battle to face for their overall record. This Stags team has talent, and it has the potential to win the conference and make the playoffs again this year. The pitching rotation is deep; they have power in their bats with senior Matthew Bucciero, who led the team in home runs last year, and TJ Schmalze, the senior outfielder who also has a strong bat.
This team has loads of motivation to take home another conference title. But, to add one more piece of motivation for this team and one more reason to win would be that head coach Bill Currier intends to retire after this season, making this his last year coaching.
This is his 15th year leading the Stags baseball program, and 37 years of coaching Division 1 baseball, racking up 890 victories. That number ranks him the 17th all-time winningest coach. Currier has led the Stags to six MAAC conference titles, and with the best team of his coaching career here at Fairfield being the 2021 team, where he led them to a 33-1 overall record with a 28-game winning streak. Coach Currier is looking for his 400th win as the Fairfield head coach and will definitely see that early on this season, as he currently sits at 398 wins.
Currier has brought nothing but success to the Fairfield baseball team and program and has left his mark in a big way. The Fairfield head coach has built one of the strongest Division 1 teams in the Northeast, and his coaching legacy will live on forever here at Fairfield.
The Fairfield Stags head into MAAC conference play after a win in their last game, beating Elon 6-4. This first win was powered by the bat of Carter Grande with his first home run as a Stag and a combined four doubles from Luke Nomura, TJ Schmalze, and Grande. This win over Elon gives the Stags motivation heading into the start of conference play with a series at Siena this Friday.
After seeing strong competition to start off the season, Fairfield matches up with Siena perfectly and is looking to start off conference play strong. Siena placed fourth in the MAAC in 2025 and is looking to improve that standing and move up higher in the spot that Fairfield was in last season, at number two in the conference. The long but fast baseball season gets fully underway for both the Stags and the Saints.
The Stags are in full steam mode with their first conference game on Friday, Mar. 6th, to kick off a three-game series against Siena University, and hoping the snow has all melted away from Cook Field here on campus, the Stags will play their first game at home on Friday, March 13th, against Manhattan.
