BABSON PARK, Mass.— Amherst College scored two goals in less than three minutes early in the first half and that proved to be the difference as the Mammoths went on to a 3-1 victory over No. 14/22 Babson College Tuesday afternoon in a non-conference men's soccer game at Hartwell-Rogers Field.

Babson had its three-game unbeaten streak snapped and falls to 4-2-1 on the season while Amherst, which was ranked No. 2 in Division III a week ago but unranked this week, improves to 4-1-1.

Junior Shamar Rainford (Randolph, Mass.) scored for Babson on a penalty kick in the 77th minute and sophomore keeper Walker White (Coral Gables, Fla.) made a career-high seven saves in goal in the setback.

Sophomore Fynn Hayton-Ruffner (Albany, Calif.) and junior Ada Okorogheye (London, England) tallied goals for the visitors and junior Jonny Novak (London, England) recorded an assist. Senior keeper Bernie White (Austin, Texas) made three saves in goal to record the victory.

Hayton-Ruffner opened the scoring in the eighth minute after a flurry of Amherst shots in front of the Babson goal. The first was stopped by the Babson keeper, a second attempt was blocked by a Beaver defender, and Novak collected the loose ball on the right side and slid a pass across to Hayton-Ruffner who tapped it into an open net near the left post for this third of the season.

The Mammoths scored again on an own goal in the 10th minute when a crossing pass from Hayton-Ruffner was inadvertently knocked into the Babson goal by a defender.

That ended up as all of the scoring in the first half. Amherst had a 7-6 advantage in shots, with Walker White making four saves in the Babson goal and Bernie White stopping one shot on goal on the Mammoth end.

Amherst extended the lead to 3-0 in the 73rd minute when Okorogheye dribbled the ball about 20 yards into the scoring area, getting past a defender going to his left and got a shot past White for his third of the season.

Babson was awarded a penalty kick in the 77th minute when a player was taken down just in front of the Amherst goal. Rainford took the kick for the Beavers and deposited the shot into the lower right corner of the goal for his second of the season.

The visitors finished with a narrow 12-11 margin in total shots, while Babson took four of the game's six corner kicks.

Babson is home again on Saturday with a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) contest against Emerson at 1 p.m. Amherst travels to Maine for a New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) weekend at Bates on Saturday and Colby on Sunday.

GAME NOTES
• The Beavers are now 4-16-6 all-time against Amherst in a series that dates back to 1981, including a 3-0 setback in the second round of last year's NCAA Tournament.
• Babson is now 0-1-1 against teams from the NESCAC this season, with a visit to Tufts next Tuesday and a trip to defending national champion Connecticut College on October 12 still to come.
• The Green and White lost at home for just the sixth time since the beginning of the 2019 season, going 14-6-6 in that span.