SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Senior Josh Yellen (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and sophomore Tanner Santos (Bethany, Conn.) both drove in a pair during a four-run fifth inning to help Babson College defeat 15th-ranked Trinity University in non-conference baseball action on Friday afternoon.

With the win, Babson opens the season at 1-0 while Trinity dips to 2-2 overall.

Yellen went 2-for-4 and scored once, sophomore Francis Kiely (Falmouth, Maine) singled and drove in a run, and seniors Jack Pirkl (Brightwaters, N.Y.) and Thomas Lapham (Charlestown, Mass.) both singled and scored a run for the Beavers. Sophomore Tristen Spalter (Sergeantsville, N.J.) gave up three runs over 5.0 innings to pick up his first career win, while junior Stephen McLendon (Nashua, N.H.) struck out the side in the ninth to earn his second career save.

Junior MJ Metz (San Diego, Calif.) went 3-for-4 with two doubles, an RBI and a run scored, junior Nathan Braulick (San Antonio, Texas) singled twice and sophomore Cristian Holloway (Brownsville, Texas) drove in a pair of runs for the Tigers. Senior Corey Cater (Sacramento, Calif.) shouldered the loss to fall to 0-2 on the year after allowing five runs on five hits to go along with eight strikeouts in 6.0 innings.

Senior Michael Montrezza (Los Gatos, Calif.) worked a one-walk and later scored on Holloway's two-out RBI single to give the hosts a 1-0 lead in the last of the third. The Green and White tied it when Kiely plated Yellen with a two-out single to right in the fourth and then put together a four-run, two-out rally in the fifth.

Senior Sean Burychka (Mount Laurel, N.J.) and Pirkl walked and later scored on Santos' two-out single to right to make it 3-1. Lapham followed with a single to left and advanced to second on a throwing error before Yellen drove in him and Santos with a knock to center for a 5-1 advantage. Trinity struck for a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame to cut its deficit in half, but Spalter caught sophomore Matt McNaney (Albuquerque, N.M.) looking with the bases loaded to escape further damage.

The Tigers pulled within a run on an RBI ground out by Holloway in the seventh, but senior William Cournan (Pembroke, Mass.) worked around a two-walk in his collegiate debut in the eighth and McLendon struck out Holloway following a double by Metz to close out the win in the ninth.

Babson and Trinity will meet for game two of their three-game series on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET.

GAME NOTES
• The Beavers are now 5-5 all-time against Trinity and have won three straight against the Tigers going back to 2020.
• Babson has won 10 straight and 12 of its last 13 games overall going back to 2020 when scoring at least five runs.