EWING, N.J.—Sophomore Louis Gazo (Colchester, Vt.) had a goal and an assist during a three-goal second-half outburst as Babson College rolled to a 4-0 victory over The College of New Jersey on Sunday afternoon in a non-conference men's soccer match at Lions Stadium.

With the win, the Beavers are off to a 2-0 start to the young season while the Lions drop to 1-1.

Junior Shamar Rainford (Randolph, Mass.) scored the only goal of the first half for Babson before junior Samuel Kalishman (Clarksville, Md.), graduate student Ryan Goss (Glastonbury, Conn.), and Gazo struck for goals in the final 45 minutes. Senior Ryan Grund (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and junior Joseph Cardaropoli (Longmeadow, Mass.) also registered assists in the win, and sophomore Walker White (Coral Gables, Fla.) and junior Mack Lemkau (Bedford, N.Y.) made one save apiece to combine for the clean sheet.

Junior Julian Franco (Branchburg, N.J.) finished with six saves in the TCNJ goal as Babson outshot the hosts 19-9 overall, including 12-2 in the second half.

The teams were fairly even in the opening half, generating seven shots apiece. Rainford broke through for the Beavers in the 32nd minute, as he picked up a loose ball in the middle of the field, turned and fired a shot from 25 yards out past a diving goalkeeper into the upper left part of the goal for his first of the season.

Babson doubled its lead in the 57th minute when Grund connected on a pass to Kalishman in the middle who found the top right corner of the goal for his second goal in as many games.

The Beavers poured it on with a pair of scores in a little over a two-minute span with 16 minutes to play. Goss played a through ball from Gazo and chipped a shot over the keeper for his first of the season in the 74th minute and Gazo took a through ball from Cardaropoli and buried a shot to the low right for his first of the year in the 77th minute.

White played between the pipes the first 76 minutes for Babson without surrendering a goal before Lemkau came on for the final 14 scoreless minutes. The Green and White also had a 7-2 margin in corner kicks, including all five in the first half.

The Beavers return to action on Saturday when they visit Brandeis for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff in Waltham. TCNJ plays its third straight home game Wednesday, hosting Muhlenberg at 7 p.m.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is now 2-1 all-time against TCNJ in a series that dates back to 1991. Sunday's encounter was the first between the two schools since the Beavers captured a 2-0 victory over the Lions at the 2012 Richard Stockton Seashore Classic in Galloway, N.J.
• With Sunday's result, the Beavers are 13-0-1 going back to the start of last season when scoring the first goal of the game, and are 16-4-3 since 2018 when taking a 1-0 lead.
• The Green and White extended the streak to 125 straight games when scoring three or more goals going back to 1999.