FAIRFIELD, CT – Aaron Forster tallied his 100^th career point in NJIT's 12-8 loss at Fairfield on Tuesday afternoon.

The Highlanders junior is the all-time leading scorer, assist leader and points leader at NJIT with 72 career goals, 30 assists and 102 points after Tuesday's game.

NJIT received two goals and an assist from Forster and two goals apiece from juniors Ryan Darrow and Cole Robillard. Darrow also tied the NJIT record for caused turnovers in a game with four.

Ryan Kaden tallied a goal and an assist and Max Wilson grabbed NJIT's final goal. Collin Fogerty notched his first and second career assists.

For Farifield, Colin Burke had a game-high seven points on four goals and three assists, while Joe Rodrigues added three goals and two assists and Taylor Strough produced a hat-trick.

NJIT outshot the Stags 12-9 in the first, and scored first at 8:56 with a goal from Robillard off a feed from Fogerty, his first assist of the season.

The Stags evened things up with a goal by Horning, and then went up 2-1 with goal by Burke who picked up his own shots rebound and caught goalie Marzullo off guard.

Fairfield added another two goals in the last 28 seconds of the quarter to take a 4-1 advantage.

The Highlanders scored the first two goals in the second period to pull within one, 4-3, on goals from Robillard and Darrow.

Fairfield scored the next four goals to give the Stags a comfortable five-goal lead, 8-3 at half.

The Highlanders had its best scoring quarter in the third, netting four goals.

Forster scored his first goal of the game, posting his 100^th career point at 13:30 in the third quarter.

The Stags led 10-5 lead in the third, as NJIT answered with three goals to cut the Fairfield lead to three. The Stags would come out of the quarter with an 11-7 lead.

Darrow was the first to score in the fourth, but the Stags answered right back off the next face-off on a win by Will Fox and Rodrigues' third goal of the game.

Those would be the only goals of the fourth quarter, which would have been more if not for some big saves by freshman goalie Alexzander Hunt.

NJIT starter Marzullo made the start for the Highlanders and grabbed eight saves, while Hunt came in to relieve Marzullo and made eight saves, letting up two goals in 24 minutes.

Sean McKee made nine saves in the Stags win.

The Highlanders play Wagner on Saturday, March 24 for a 7pm game in Staten Island, NY.