WORCESTER, Mass.—Senior Sean MacPhee (Framingham, Mass.) went 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored, and sophomore Owen Shea (Northborough, Mass.) added a three-run homer as visiting Babson College defeated Clark University, 12-7, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) baseball action on Wednesday afternoon at Granger Field.

With its fourth straight win, Babson is now 15-15 overall and wraps up its conference regular-season slate at 11-6. Clark, which will miss the NEWMAC Tournament after losing a tie-breaker for the fifth seed with Coast Guard, drops to 11-16 overall and 8-9 in league play. 

Sophomore Jake Weiss (Irvine, Calif.), who has now reached base safely in 13 straight games, went 2-for-5 with three runs scored, while first-year Brett Ender (Skillman, N.J.) added two hits, including a double, and drove in two runs. Sophomore Jack Halpin (Glastonbury, Conn.) scored twice and drove in two runs, and first-year Adam Ayala (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) scored three times for the Beavers.

Senior Dennis Glynn (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), junior James Conway (Newburyport, Mass.) and sophomore Adam Chochrek (Foxboro, Mass.) all had two hits for the Cougars. Senior Daniel Lima (Manchester, Conn.) scored twice and classmate David Eschen (New York, N.Y.) drove in a pair of runs.

The Green and White jumped on top with five runs in the top of the first inning. Weiss scored on a throwing error and Halpin drove in Ayala with a single to left before Shea cranked a three-run blast over the left field fence for a 5-0 lead.

The Beavers added to their lead in the second as Halpin plated Weiss with a sacrifice fly, and MacPhee, who is riding an 11-game hitting streak, came through with a two-out knock to left to drive in Ayala to make it 7-0. Clark stranded a pair of runners in the bottom of the frame, but took advantage of two Babson errors to score four times in the bottom of the third. Eschen and sophomore Tyler Hutchinson (Greene, Maine) each drove in a run, and a two-out error allowed two more runs to come across to make it 7-4.

The Cougars scored twice in the fourth to get within 7-6, but Babson responded with five runs over the next three innings to regain control. Ender drove in MacPhee with an RBI double in the fifth, and plated him again as part of a two-run sixth to push the lead to 10-6. Weiss scored his third run of the game on Gonzalez's two-out RBI single in the seventh, and Ayala stole home one batter later to make it 12-6.

Sophomore Graham Stack (Arlington, Mass.) earned the win to move to 2-0 on the year for the Beavers after allowing one earned run on three hits in four innings of relief. First-year Teddy Carey (Upton, Mass.) started and gave up six runs, all of them unearned, on five hits in 3.1 innings.

First-year Patrick Robinson (Watertown, Conn.) took the loss for Clark after giving up seven runs, three of them earned, on five hits over two innings.

Babson, which earned the fourth seed in the NEWMAC Tournament, will host fifth-seeded Coast Guard in a quarterfinal on Friday at 3:30 p.m. The winner advances to face top-seeded MIT in a best-of-three series starting on Saturday.