BABSON PARK, Mass.—Junior Jackson Kelly (Wenonah, N.J.) homered and four players recorded multiple hits to help Babson College defeat visiting WPI, 7-3, in game one of a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) baseball doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Govoni Field.

Game two of the doubleheader between the Beavers (12-8, 3-1 NEWMAC) and Engineers (11-9, 1-3 NEWMAC) was postponed due to rain and will be played on Sunday at 12 p.m.

Senior Thomas Lapham (Charlestown, Mass.) singled twice and drove in two runs, and sophomore Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.) and first-year Walter Sadowsky (Morristown, N.J.) both went 2-for-4 with an RBI for Babson. Senior Jack Pirkl (Brightwaters, N.Y.) also finished with two hits and junior Anthony St. John (Hopewell, N.J.) allowed three runs on five hits while striking out four over 8.0 innings to improve to 3-0 on the year.

Sophomore Jacob Hand (Niskayuna, N.Y.) went 2-for-3 with a home run, a double and two runs scored to lead the Engineers. Junior Everett Wonson (Southington, Conn.) suffered the loss to drop to 1-2 on the season after giving up six earned runs on eight hits over 4.0 innings. Sophomore Joseph Peregrim (Watervliet, N.Y.) took over in the fifth and tossed four shutout innings of relief, striking out two and allowing just two hits.

The Green and White took advantage of a pair of WPI miscues to jump in front 1-0 in the top of the first and then jumped on Wonson for three runs in the second. Sadowsky drove in Kelly with a double to the base of the wall in left and then scored on Savage's RBI single to center to make it 3-0. Senior Sean Burychka (Mount Laurel, N.J.) capped the rally with an RBI groundout to bring home Savage extending the margin to four.

Kelly hit a solo blast to dead center with one out in the third Lapham drove in Savage and Pirkl with a single through the right side with the infield in in the fourth to push the Beavers' lead to 7-0. The Engineers got on the board in the bottom of the inning as senior Dylan Connors (Westborough, Mass.) walked and scored on a sacrifice fly by junior Joe Salvon (Longmeadow, Mass.), while Hand doubled and later raced home on a wild pitch with two outs to cut their deficit to 7-2.

St. John retired seven consecutive hitters before giving up a solo blast to Hand to start the seventh. He worked around a two-out single later in the frame and retired the side in order in the eighth before handing the ball to senior William Cournan (Pembroke, Mass.), who retired the only two batters he faced to close out the win.

GAME NOTES
• The Beavers are 54-24 all-time against WPI and have eight of the last nine games between the teams.
• Lapham has reached base safely in 13 straight games and has recorded seven multi-hit games during this stretch.
• Babson is 9-3 this season when scoring first.
• The Beavers are now 10-3 this spring when recording 10 or more hits.