Women's Volleyball at Smith
Tuesday, October 24 | 7 p.m. 
Ainsworth Gym | Northampton, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 15-23 all-time against Smith in a series that dates back to 1987. 
•    The Beavers had their seven-match winning streak in the series snapped last season but still have been victorious in 11 of their last 13 outings versus the Pioneers since 2008.
•    The Green and White has won five consecutive matches inside Ainsworth Gym since suffering a five-set loss back in 2013. 

LAST MEETING
•    Sophomore Abby Hunt registered 12 kills and Ava Zollinger added nine kills and four blocks to help Smith defeat the Beavers in four sets (25-23, 25-17, 20-25, 30-28) on October 29, 2022, in Babson Park. 
•    Martina Jankovic Chin '23 led all players with 17 kills to go along with four blocks, Izzy Seebold M'23 finished with 40 assists and 10 digs and sophomore Roz Cabuena led all players with 16 digs for the Beavers. 
•    Sophomore Miranda Oakes led all players with five blocks and classmate Sophia Padilla dished out 40 assists to go along with 13 digs for the Pioneers, who took advantage of 23 errors over the first two sets by the Green and White. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (20-4, 7-1 NEWMAC) has dropped two straight matches and is coming off a 3-1 loss to Middlebury at the New England Challenge on Saturday. 
•    Sophomore Isabella Allen had nine kills, seniors Olivia Leinenweber and Lulu McShane both added eight kills and first-year Zoe Ackerman dished out 30 assists for the Beavers, suffered their first loss of the year when winning the opening set. 
•    Senior Erin Gray ranks sixth in the conference in kills per set (3.12), first-year Allison Molendyk (3.03 k/s) is hitting .241 and junior Lauren Gips is (2.49 k/s, 1.16 b/s, .383 hitting pct.) ranks second in the league in both blocks and hitting percentage. 
•    Ackerman is handing out 6.93 assists per set, while Cabuena ranks third in the NEWMAC averaging 4.91 digs per set. 

SCOUTING THE PIONEERS
•    Smith (15-9, 5-3 NEWMAC) is coming off a 3-2 win at Trinity on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Mia Ethridge finished with 19 kills, Abby Sweeney added 13 kills and seven blocks and Hunt chipped in with 11 kills and 10 digs for the Pioneers, who hit .310 over the final two sets.
•    Hunt is averaging 2.72 kills and 2.45 digs per set, Sarah Dankovich is contributing 2.16 kills per set and Sweeney (2.14 k/s) is fourth on the team with 52 total blocks. 
•    Meg Hopkins and Nathalie Pak have combined to hand out 9.95 assists per set, while Gabby Beckman is averaging a team-high 3.58 digs per set. 

CONFERENCE RESET
•    The Beavers suffered their first NEWMAC loss the season last Tuesday at Clark and enter the final two weeks of the regular season tied for second place with 19th-ranked MIT at 7-1. 
•    No. 25 Springfield sits in first place at 8-0, while Smith and Coast Guard are currently tied for fourth at 5-3. 
•    Babson can secure a top-four seed and a home quarterfinal match with one more win and can secure at least a share of the league's regular season title with victories in its final three contests. 

DIGGING IN
•    Since returning to the lineup on October 10, Cabuena has totaled 123 digs and is averaging 5.86 digs per set in six matches. 
•    She achieved a new season high with 28 digs in last Friday's four-set win over Tufts and has registered 22 or more digs three times during this stretch. 

NOTABLE
•    Gray averaged 3.58 kills per set in four matches last week and matched her career high with 18 kills in a four-set loss to Williams on Saturday. 
•    Allen recorded a season-high 13 kills and McShane contributed a career-best seven blocks in the win over Tufts. 
•    Leinenweber stepped out of her normal role as a defensive specialist to record a career highs of eight kills and two blocks against Middlebury. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Prior to Saturday's loss to Middlebury, the Beavers had won 36 straight matches when taking the first set. 
•    Babson is 12-0 this season when hitting .200 or better. 
•    The Green and White is 17-0 when holding its opponents to a .150 hitting percentage or lower. 
•    The Beavers are 6-3 on the road this season. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson will host Assumption on Friday at 7 p.m.