BABSON PARK, Mass.—Senior Sebastian Derby (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico) finished with a goal and an assist as No. 19/4 Amherst College defeated Babson College, 3-0, in an NCAA Tournament second round match on Sunday afternoon at Hartwell-Rogers Field.

Babson, which was making its first NCAA second round appearance since 2011, sees its season come to a close at 12-5-3. Amherst (14-2-2) advances to the sectional semifinals for the 10th year in a row and will face either Cortland or Kean next Saturday.

Senior goalkeeper Itai Rubin (Briarcliff, N.Y.) finished with four saves for the Beavers.

Sophomore Ada Okorogheye (London, England) and first-year Laurens ten Cate (Westport, Conn.) both scored and senior German Giammattei (Pinecrest, Fla.) chipped in with an assist for the Mammoths. Classmate Kofi Hope-Grund (New York, N.Y.) stopped five shots to record his third straight clean sheet.

Amherst took the lead just over 90 seconds into the match on Derby's second goal of the year. Giammattei split two defenders and forced a sprawling save by Rubin on his shot from just inside the top of the box and Derby hammered home the rebound from inside the six-yard box.

The Mammoths added to their advantage following a miscue by Babson in the 42nd minute. Okorogheye intercepted a short goal kick and dribbled past a defender into the box before calmly finishing past Rubin for this third marker of the year.

Amherst tacked on another insurance goal in the 58th minute as ten Cate notched cleaned up the rebound of a header that was pushed away by Rubin at the crossbar following a long throw into the box by Bryce Johnson (Plano, Texas).

The Beavers' best scoring chances came in the first half as they forced three saves from Hope-Gund. After handling sophomore Samuel Kalishman's (Clarksville, Md.) low strike from distance in the 14th minute, he pushed away senior Mitchell Collins' (Burlington, Mass.) bending free kick at the left post in the 30th minute and pushed a 25-yard blast by Collins from the right wing over the crossbar off a restart in the 38th minute.

The Mammoths finished with a 19-8 edge in shots and attempted six of the game's eight corner kicks. The teams also combined for 38 fouls in the match.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is 4-15-6 all-time against Amherst and Sunday's contest was the first between the programs in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Beavers are now 20-7-4 all-time in NCAA Tournament games at Hartwell-Rogers Field.
• Babson conceded a first-half goal for the first time in its last 13 matches on Sunday and trailed at the half for the first time since a 2019 NCAA first round game at Oneonta.