BABSON PARK, Mass.— Junior Jack Sheehan (New York, N.Y.) scored a game-high four goals and No. 16/19 Middlebury College capitalized on six unanswered goals in the second quarter to post a 15-7 victory over Babson College in non-conference men's lacrosse action at MacDowell Field.

With the win, Middlebury improves to 6-5 overall while Babson drops to 5-6. The Panthers are ranked 16th in Division III by the US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) and 19th by insidelacrosse.com.

Junior Chi Chi Price (Hingham, Mass.) scored a pair of goals to lead the Babson effort as six different players scored. Sophomore Topher Bower (Chicago, Ill.) tallied a goal and an assist, and classmates Connor Karsh (Glenview, Ill.) and Sammy Kalishman (Clarksville, Md.), junior Matt Stucchi (Rexford, N.Y.) and graduate student Lee Sipes (Windham, N.H.) all scored one goal apiece. Sophomore Grey Sunderland (Bellevue, Wash.) and senior Drew Thomas (Jacksonville Beach, Fla.) grabbed six and five ground balls, respectively, and senior Mac Mowat (Bellevue, Wash.) matched his season-high with 16 saves in goal.

Junior Tyler Forbes (Jamaica Plain, Mass.) contributed three goals and an assist to the Middlebury attack and first-year Billy Curtis (Beverly Farms, Mass.) was good for a goal and four assists. Junior William Ryan (North Haven, Conn.) tallied two goals and one assist and first-years Finn McCarthy (Milton, Ga.) and Patrick Jamin (Rumson, N.J.) registered a goal and an assist each. First-year William Munroe (Wayland, Mass.) was 10 of 12 face-offs and classmate Garrett Hawthorne (Mill Valley, Calif.) took 7-of-12, and junior Finn O'Connor (Stamford, Conn.) made 10 saves in goal for the Panthers.

Middlebury needed just 10 seconds after the opening draw for senior Gordon Pollock (Nashville, Tenn.) to put the Panthers on the board. Babson got goals from Bower and Karsh midway through the frame to pull ahead, but the Ryan scored for the visitors with 20 seconds left in the quarter to deadlock the score at 2-2 after one.

The second quarter belonged to Middlebury as the Panthers outscored Babson 6-0 in the 15 minute span, with Forbes and Sheehan scoring twice each and Curtis and Ryan adding one apiece.

Price scored twice for Babson in the early minutes of the third quarter but both times Middlebury had an answer, first by first-year Russell Thorndike (Brookline, Mass.) and then by Sheehan. The teams traded two goals apiece to end the third quarter with Middlebury up, 12-6. Sipes scored the first goal of the fourth quarter for Babson to slice the margin to 12-7, but Jamin, Sheehan and first-year Coleman Nye (Weston, Mass.) closed out the scoring for the Panthers.

Middlebury had the advantage on the stat sheet in shots (50-40), ground balls (40-22) and face-offs (17-9). Babson was good on 24 of 27 clears while the Panthers were 21 of 22.

Babson is home again on Saturday for a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) contest against Emerson, beginning at 3:30 p.m. at MacDowell Field. Middlebury returns home for a 4 p.m. matchup Wednesday against No. 15/10 St. Lawrence.

GAME NOTES
• Middlebury leads the all-time series against Babson 3-0, as the two teams met of the first time since 1983.
• The Beavers are 1-3 this season against teams from the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with a win over Bates and losses to Bowdoin, Williams and Middlebury. Babson will also face No. 8 Tufts on April 19.
• Babson got seven goals by seven different players in Saturday's loss to Williams, and seven goals by six different on Sunday. Including Wednesday's win over UMass Boston, the Beavers have had 13 different goal scorers in three games this week.