Baseball vs. Coast Guard
Monday, April 11 | 3:30 p.m.
Govoni Field | Babson Park, Mass.
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SERIES HISTORY
• Babson is 63-23 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to 1978.
• The Beavers have won 10 of the last 11 games between the teams dating back to 2016, which includes five straight victories at home.
• Monday's matchup is the first between the teams at Govoni Field since March 31, 2018. The Beavers have won 12 of their last 14 games against the Bears at Govoni Field going back to 2011.
LAST MEETING
• Greg Boland went 3-for-4 with a home run and Cody Fidler allowed just one run in a complete-game effort as Coast Guard defeated Babson, 4-1, last Tuesday in New London, Conn.
• Blake Carroll went 2-for-4 with two RBI for the Bears, who snapped a 10-game losing streak in the series.
• Junior Francis Kiely doubled twice and recorded a career-high four hits for the Beavers, who left eight men on base in the loss.
SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• Babson (13-8, 4-1 NEWMAC) finished off a weekend sweep of WPI with a 7-1 win on Sunday afternoon.
• Kiely hit a two-run homer in the first, first-year Walter Sadowsky went 3-for-4 with a solo blast and junior Tim Noone gave up just one run over seven innings for the Beavers.
• Senior Thomas Lapham is batting .354 with three extra-base hits, 10 RBI and 24 runs scored, classmate Sean Burychka is hitting .324 with 10 extra-base hits and 19 runs batted in, and fellow senior Josh Yellen enters the week at .318 with two doubles, a home run and 14 RBI.
• Noone (4-1, 3.99 ERA) and junior Anthony St. John (3-0, 3.19 ERA) have both won their first two NEWMAC starts, sophomore Tristen Spalter (2-2, 3.73) allowed one earned run in 5.1 innings last Tuesday at Coast Guard, and junior Stephen McLendon is 1-1 with four saves and a 1.72 ERA in 12 relief appearances.
SCOUTING THE BEARS
• Coast Guard (14-6, 5-0 NEWMAC) has won a school-record nine straight games after finishing off a sweep of Emerson with a 7-5 victory in game two on Sunday afternoon.
• Boland went 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored and John Carroll doubled as part of a two-hit day for the Bears, who got a two-run double from Justin Stasiak in the bottom of the eighth to break a 5-5 deadlock.
• Blake Carroll leads the NEWMAC in batting average (.431) and stolen bases (10) to go along with nine extra-base hits and 15 runs batted in, Boland is batting .379 with three doubles, three homers and 11 RBI, and Stasiak is hitting .346 with six extra-base hits and 11 RBI.
• Fidler is 4-0 with two complete games and a 1.27 ERA in four starts, Brock Soletti has gone 3-0 with a 3.72 ERA in eight relief appearances, and Wyatt Duthu is 2-0 with two saves in five games out of the bullpen.
FRIENDLY CONFINES
• The Beavers are 6-2 at home this season, which includes two victories apiece over NEWMAC foes Springfield and WPI.
• Babson outscored the Pride and Engineers 36-5 over four games while batting .319 with 10 doubles and seven home runs.
• Dating back to April 22, 2016, the Green and White is 50-8 at Govoni Field.
STAYING HOT AT THE PLATE
• Lapham has reached base safely in 14 straight contests and has recorded seven of his team-high nine multi-hit games during this stretch.
• He enters the week tied for first in the league in runs scored (24), second in stolen bases (9), fifth in walks (15), eighth in on-base percentage (.528) and ninth in batting average (.354).
NUMBERS TO KNOW
• The Beavers are 10-3 when scoring the first run of the game and 7-1 when scoring in the first inning this season.
• Babson is 9-1 on the year when leading after six innings.
• The Beavers 12-2 when allowing five runs or less this spring.
• The Green and White is 9-1 when recording more hits than its opponents.
UP NEXT
• Babson travels to Southern Maine on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
