WORCESTER, Mass.—Senior Josh Yellen (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and junior Patrick Manning (Weymouth, Mass.) both finished with three hits, while first-year Justin Guest (West Windsor, N.J.) drove in a season-high five runs to help visiting Babson College defeat Clark University, 14-10, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) baseball action on Wednesday afternoon at Granger Field.

Babson, which has won 12 of its last 14 games, improves to 23-10 overall and 12-2 in league play, while Clark slips to 14-15 overall and 3-11 in the NEWMAC with its fourth straight loss.

Guest doubled and homered, senior Jack Pirkl (Brightwaters, N.Y.) and sophomore Francis Kiely (Falmouth, Mass.) both finished with two hits and two RBI, and sophomore Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.) went 2-for-4 with a run scored as part of the Beavers' 16-hit attack. Senior Thomas Lapham (Charlestown, Mass.) added an RBI single and scored twice, while first-year Walter Sadowsky (Morristown, N.J.) singled, walked and scored a pair of runs in the win.

Junior Ryan Caulfield (Simsbury, Conn.) went 3-for-4 with a triple and three runs scored, while senior Andrea Casabianca (Yonkers, N.Y.) was 2-for-4 with a double, three RBI and two runs scored to lead the Cougars. Junior Anthony Keefe (Plymouth, Mass.) singled twice and drove in two runs and graduate student Chris Radovic (Fairfield, Conn.) walked three times and scored twice in the loss.

Down 5-1 after one, the Green and White exploded for seven second-inning runs. Pirkl got the rally going with a two-run single, Lapham followed with an RBI knock to right and then scored on Kiely's second RBI single of the game to make it 5-5. Yellen came home on an error for a 6-5 lead and both Sadowsky and Kiely raced home on Guest's sacrifice fly extending the margin to 8-5.

Casabianca cut the Cougars' deficit to 8-6 in the bottom of the second but the Beavers answered back with a five-run third-inning uprising that included a two-out bases-clearing double by Guest and an RBI single from Manning to push the lead to 13-6. Clark pulled within three after a three-run third and an RBI ground out by Radovic in the fifth before the Babson bullpen calmed the scoring frenzy.

Graduate student Truman Devitt (Mamaroneck, N.Y.), who improved to 3-1 with the win, erased a leadoff single with a double play in the sixth, while sophomore Kyle Wolff (Stratham, N.H.) and senior John Macdonald (Quincy, Mass.) retired the side in order in the seventh and eighth innings.

Both teams return to action on Friday at 3:30 p.m. as Babson opens a three-game series with Wheaton at Govoni Field, while Clark takes on WPI.

GAME NOTES
• The Beavers are 63-21 in the all-time series and have won six straight games against Clark going back to 2019.
• Lapham has reached base safely in 24 games, while Sadowsky and Yellen extended their hitting streaks to 13 and 10 games, respectively.
• Babson is 19-4 when scoring first and 14-1 when putting up a run in the first inning this season.
• Yellen recorded his 15th multi-hit game of the year on Wednesday.