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The Fairfield University women's basketball team will host Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) front-runner Marist College on Tuesday night at the Arena at Harbor Yard.  The 7 p.m. contest will air live on My TV 9, WCTX, with John Cummings and Maria Conlon calling all the action.

The Stags enter the game having lost back-to-back games and at 10-12 overall, while the Red Foxes were winners in their last outing and are 18-5 on the year.  Marist is 10-1 in league play, in first place, while Fairfield is tied for eighth place at 4-7, with Canisius.

Fairfield is celebrating the 24th annual National Girl's and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) at the contest, with the first 200 girls receiving a commemorative t-shirt.  Sports educators, coaches, athletic directors, recreation directors, association members, sponsors, students, and parents across the country are showing their support for NGWSD and this year's them, "Stay Strong, Play On."  Athletes like Martina Navratilova, Candace Parker or Jessica Mendoza who played or are still playing are making a difference, overcoming difficult circumstances, breaking records and making things possible.   Despite the stunning advances made in the 38 years since Title IX was enacted, high school girls still receive 1.3 million fewer participation opportunities than do boys, and evidence suggests that the money spent on girls' sports programs lags significantly behind the money spent on boys' programs. 

Fairfield looks to split the regular season series with Marist for the second consecutive season this evening, with each team winning on the road last year.  The Red Foxes knocked off the Stags70-63 at the McCann Center on January 8 of this season to equal the all-time series, 17-17.  The Stags win on the road last season snapped an 11-game series losing streak for the Stags against Marist.  The series began with two meetings at the Division II level, both won by Fairfield in 1979-80 and 1980-81.  The first Division I meeting, at Marist in the 1981-82 season, was a Red Fox victory, 73-70.  The Stags won the next seven contests and 12 of 13, before the squads split the season series in the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons. 

Fairfield shot 41.5 percent at the McCann Center on January 8, but did not make a field goal for 12 minutes surrounding halftime and fell 70-63 to the Red Foxes. The Stags knocked down a single-game record tying 10 three-pointers with Desiree Pina draining 4-5 from behind the arc, on her way to a team-high 21 points.  Taryn Johnson had her first double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds, while Katelyn Linney had 13 points in the contest.  Joelle Nawrocki and Stephanie Geehan both handed out four assists as the Stags had 16 assists on 22 made field goals.  Fairfield was out rebounded on the night 35-33, with a 13-12 Marist advantage on the offensive glass resulting in a 16-3 edge in second chance points.