NEWMAC Tournament Quarterfinal
Men's Lacrosse vs. Emerson
Monday, May 2 | 7 p.m.
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson and Emerson will meet for just the ninth time on Monday night.
• The Beavers have dominated the series winning all eight matchups by a combined score of 126-26.
• Monday's quarterfinal will be the first postseason matchup between the programs.

LAST MEETING
• Junior Chi Chi Price matched his career high with five goals and the Beavers jumped out to a 7-0 lead less than 10 minutes into the contest to cruise to a 16-8 win over Emerson on April 16 in Babson Park.
• Sophomore Connor Karsh and first-year Colt Bordonaro scored three times apiece, senior Drew Thomas caused four turnovers and sophomore Grey Sunderland won 15-of-27 face-offs and scooped up a career-high 14 ground balls in the win for Babson.
• Senior Skyler Celotto finished with two goals and one assist, while junior Nicholas Fulgione scored twice for the Lions, who got 18 saves from senior Malcom McGrath.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• Fourth-seeded Babson (7-8) wrapped up the regular season with a 16-12 at No. 15/17 MIT on Saturday.
• Price scored four times, graduate student Lee Sipes finished with two goals and five ground balls, junior Matt Stucchi contributed a goal and three assists and first-year Jared Lucich came off the bench to win 14-of-21 face-offs for the Beavers.
• Price (31-8-39) has scored at least four goals five times this spring, Stucchi (16-15-31) leads the team in assists and has nine over the last four contests, and Sipes (19-7-26) is riding a seven-game points streak and is tied for second on the squad with three man-up goals.
• Sunderland has won 54.7 percent of his face-offs and ranks third in the league with 96 ground balls, Thomas (28) and Brendan Maher (21) have combined for 49 caused turnovers, and senior Mac Mowat ranks third in the conference with a 10.54 goals against average to go along with a .548 save percentage.

SCOUTING THE LIONS
• Fifth-seeded Emerson (12-5) secured the program's first NEWMAC Tournament berth with a 14-13 victory at Coast Guard on Saturday.
• Celotto and senior Hunter Gervais both scored five times, Fulgione contributed a pair of fourth-quarter goals and McGrath stopped 16 shots as the Lions outscored the Bears 5-3 over the final 15 minutes
• Sophomore Birk Swan (34-44-78) ranks second in the conference in assists and fourth in points, Fulgione (41-26-67) has multiple goals in 10 of the last 11 contests, and Celotto (42-23-65) took over first place on the program's all-time list with his 87th career tally on Saturday.
• Junior James Toomy has won 58.2 percent of his face-offs and picked up 69 ground balls, classmate Josh DeMattos leads the defense with 56 ground balls and 33 caused turnovers, and McGrath ranks third in the NEWMAC in save percentage (56.6) to go along with a 10.96 goals against average.

TOURNAMENT TESTED
• Price produced three straight two-goal games in the Beavers' three postseason contests last spring, while Sipes totaled four goals and two assists for six points in NEWMAC Tournament wins over Clark and Coast Guard.
• Sunderland won 56 percent of his face-offs (41-of-73) and scooped up 27 ground balls, and Mowat posted a 10.02 goals against average while totaling 51 saves and stopping 63 percent of the shots he faced.

LION TAMERS
• Thomas (4), Maher (3), Sunderland (2) and junior Kyle Sanborn (2) combined to record 11 caused turnovers in Babson's April 16 victory over Emerson.
• The Beavers also held Emerson to its second lowest shot total of the season (29) while forcing the Lions into 27 turnovers, which was just one shy of their season high.

THE CHAMPS ARE HERE
• Babson defeated Coast Guard to claim the program's first conference tournament championship in program history, which put an end to its 42-year NCAA Tournament drought.
• To repeat, the Beavers will need to continue a trend that has seen the league's top seed capture the NEWMAC Tournament championship just twice in six tries dating back to 2015.

POSTSEASON TRENDS
• The Beavers are 8-2 all-time in conference tournament games at home.
• Babson is 5-1 all-time when scoring 12 or more goals in the conference playoffs, which includes both of last year's victories over Clark in the semifinals (13-8) and Coast Guard in the championship game (15-7).
• Each of the Beavers' last two NEWMAC Tournament losses have come by a single goal. They fell to Clark 10-9 in a 2019 quarterfinal and suffered a 12-11 OT setback in a 2018 semifinal at Springfield.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• Stucchi has at least one point in all 15 games this season, while Karsh has contributed at least one goal in seven consecutive outings.
• The Green and White is 6-1 this season and has won 13 of its last 14 games going back to 2020 when leading at halftime.
• Babson is 7-3 on the year when scoring 10 or more goals and 6-1 when holding its opponents to eight or less.
• The Beavers are 6-2 this spring when registering eight or more caused turnovers.

UP NEXT
• The winner of Monday's quarterfinal travels to Cambridge for a semifinal contest against unbeaten and top-seeded MIT on Wednesday at 7 p.m.