FAIRFIELD, Conn. A 5-0 run in the first quarter and a 4-0 stretch in the second staked the Fairfield University mens lacrosse team to a seven-goal halftime lead, and the Stags fended off a late Colgate run to claim a 13-9 victory on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Rafferty Stadium. Alex Corboy tallied the first four goals of his Fairfield career, while Colin McLinden and Tristan Sperry each posted four points of their own in the victory. The home win snaps a three-game losing streak for the Stags (3-4), who have been on the short side of four one-goal defeats in 2015 while earning wins over Providence, Manhattan and Colgate during the non-CAA slate. Corboy, who scored 20 goals as a freshman at Providence College last spring, found the back of the net for the Stags twice in the first quarter and twice in the second to account for his four goals. McLinden scored two goals and dished out a pair of assists, while Sperry had one goal and distributed three helpers. Sperry leads the Stags with 25 points (12 goals, 13 assists) this season, and McLinden has totaled 21 points (seven goals, team-high 14 assists). With 106 career points, Sperry is seven shy of entering Fairfields all-time top-10. McLinden currently sits in eighth place on the career points ledger with 128. Charlie Schnider added two goals and an assist for Fairfield, and TJ Neubauer buried his team-best 13th goal of the season in addition to six ground balls in the midfield. A pair of sophomores got into the scoring act off the bench as Jake Knostman scored twice, and Dave Fleming added his sixth goal of the spring. At the other end of the field, Max Buchanan picked up a career-high six ground balls. Brad Nordstrom made 11 saves his third consecutive game with double-digit stops to record the win between the posts. Will Fox led the way at the faceoff X. The two-time CAA Lacrosse Rookie of the Week went 10-of-17 (.588) with five ground balls. Matt Clarkson had a four-point day for Colgate (4-2), which was receiving votes in the national polls this week. Clarkson and Chase Wittich each scored two goals for the Raiders. Sperry started the scoring on the day with an unassisted tally at 12:07 in the first quarter and, after a Colgate equalizer, McLinden beat the keeper to stake the Stags to a lead that they would not relinquish. The marker started Fairfield on a five-goal run that also included two Corboy tallies as well as goals from Fleming and Knostman. The Raiders would add a late goal to end the stretch, but the Stags remained in front with a 6-2 lead at the close of the first quarter. Ryan Walshs 10th goal of the season for Colgate came just 52 seconds into the second quarter, but it would be the last time that the visitors found the back of the net in the first half. Corboy finished off a pair of passes from McLinden in a span of less than two minutes to extend the lead to 8-3, at which point the Stags midfield started to fire away. First, Schnider uncorked a pass from Drew Federico at 4:34 to finish off his 11th marker of the spring. Then, with 40 seconds remaining in the half, Neubauer took a pass from Schnider and smoked the ball past the keeper to send the Stags into the locker room with a 10-3 advantage. Neubauers goal was the third and final time in the half that Fairfield would score with the 30-second shot clock winding down. Nearly 10 minutes of the third quarter ticked away without a goal before Knostman converted a Sperry feed at 5:03 to stretch the lead to 11-4. Following a Colgate goal at 2:18, the Stags carried an 11-4 advantage into the fourth and final frame. McLinden started the scoring in the last stanza with an unassisted tally at the 13:29 mark. However, that goal would be Fairfields last for over 12 minutes as the Colgate offense began to click. The Raiders accounted for the next five markers, cutting the deficit to 12-9 with 1:32 to play. After Fox came away with the ensuing faceoff, the Stags capitalized on Colgates pressure defense to end the run and put the game away. With goalkeeper Jake Danehy vacating the net in an attempt to cause a turnover, Schnider buried a shot into the empty cage with exactly one minute left on the clock to round out the score at its eventual final of 13-9. Brandon Burke started in goal for Colgate and allowed 12 goals with six saves over 56:09. Danehy completed the effort with Schniders goal charged against him as the only shot he faced. The Raiders outshot the Stags, 36-27, and held a 31-27 edge in ground balls. Faceoffs were nearly split down the middle as Colgate won 13 and Fairfield came away with 12 from the X. The Stags return to road action on Tuesday, March 17 with a 4 p.m. contest at Massachusetts-Lowell. Fairfield is back at Rafferty Stadium the following Saturday, March 21 to meet nationally-ranked Villanova at 5:30 p.m. The game is the nightcap of a doubleheader that will also feature Fairfield womens lacrosse opening its MAAC schedule against Manhattan at 2 p.m. Fairfield University will host the official dedication of Rafferty Stadium on Saturday, March 21 in between the two games (approximately 4 p.m.) as a part of a day-long celebration of Fairfield lacrosse.