BABSON PARK, Mass.—Junior Elise Towers (Cicero, N.Y.) scored a pair of goals and sophomore Ashley Tango (Reading, Mass.) scored once and added one assist as 16th-ranked Babson College defeated visiting Endicott College, 6-1, in non-conference field hockey action on Saturday afternoon at MacDowell Field.

With the win, Babson improves to 5-0 on the year, while Endicott slips to 1-1.

Senior Victoria Spofford (Merrimac, Mass.), junior Jacki Merrigan (Canton, Mass.) and sophomore Lauren Drakeley (Woodbury, Conn.) each scored once for the Beavers. sophomores Brielle Schafroth-Bach (Rye, N.H.) also contributed an assist in the victory.

The Green and White opened the scoring 9:05 into the contest when Merrigan took a feed from Tango in the center of the arc and lifted a shot through traffic and inside the left post for a 1-0 lead. The Beavers doubled their advantage just over 11 minutes later when Schafroth-Bach redirected a shot by senior Nicole Smith (Barrington, R.I.) and found Spofford in front of the cage for the finish.

Senior goalkeeper Cheka Ventura (Lawrence, Mass.) made five saves early in the second half to keep Endicott in the game, but Drakeley extended the Babson lead to 3-0 when she tipped home a loose ball following a scramble in front at the 51:03 mark. The Gulls got on the board at 53:48 of the second half when junior Samantha Crowley (Leicester, Mass.) buried a feed from sophomore Meghan Stanton (Newburyport, Mass.) following a penalty corner to cut their deficit to 3-1.

The Beavers responded though, scoring three times span of 5:31 to put the game away. Tango drilled home the rebound of a shot by Spofford at the 62:00 mark, and Towers followed with back-to-back goals a little under three minutes apart for the final margin.

First-year Deirdre Barry (Longmeadow, Mass.) made a pair of saves for Babson, while Ventura finished with 13 stops for Endicott.

The Beavers finished with a 34-4 advantage in shots and a 16-3 edge in penalty corners on the day.

Both teams will return to action on Tuesday at 6 p.m. as Babson hosts nationally-ranked Tufts, while the Gulls visit MIT.

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are now 8-2 all-time against Endicott and have won seven straight in the series going back to 2010.
•    Towers has now scored in five consecutive games to start the season and ranks 16th in program history with 61 career points.
•    Babson has outscored its opponents 11-0 in the first half this season and has not allowed a goal in the opening half over its last nine contests going back to last year.
•    The Beavers have won 15 straight games in the month of September.