No. 13 Men's Soccer at Clark
Wednesday, October 25 | 4 p.m. 
Granger Field | Worcester, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 39-18-6 all-time against Clark in a series that dates back to 1959. 
•    The Beavers are unbeaten in the last four matches and have gone 11-1-3 versus the Cougars since 2007 with seven of the games ending in overtime.
•    The Green and White is making its first visit to Granger Field since 2018 and is unbeaten in its last six trips to Worcester to face Clark (4-0-2) going back to 2008. 

LAST MEETING
•    Ben Williams M'23 opened the scoring in the 59th minute and finished with a pair of goals to lead the Beavers to a 2-0 win over Clark on October 1, 2022, in Babson Park. 
•    Mitchell Collins '23, Ryan Goss '22 M'23 and senior Ryan Kim all recorded assists, while junior goalkeeper Walker White made one save for the Beavers. 
•    Diego Marin made four saves for the Cougars, who were outshot 22-4 on the day. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 13 Babson (10-3-4, 5-0-1 NEWMAC) enters the week riding an eight-game unbeaten streak and coming off a 2-0 win over MIT last Saturday. 
•    First-year Alexander Yablonovskiy scored twice inside of 14 minutes early in the second half, sophomore Robin Pestka picked up an assist and White made four saves for the Beavers, who recorded their third straight shutout. 
•    Graduate student Justin Stone (4-1-9) leads the squad with three game-winning goals, classmate Sam Morgan (3-3-9) is first on the team in assists and the duo of senior Liam Rhatigan (4-0-8) and Yablonovskiy (3-1-7) have combined to score all seven of their markers in the second half this fall. 
•    White has started all 17 games and boasts a 0.53 goals against average and a .895 save percentage to go along with a Division III-best 10 shutouts. 

SCOUTING THE COUGARS
•    Clark (3-9-3, 1-4-1 NEWMAC) has dropped six of its last seven games after suffering a 3-1 loss to WPI last Wednesday. 
•    A shot by William Lopez ricocheted off a WPI defender to tie the game in the 36th minute and Andrew DiStefano made six saves for the Cougars, who conceded the go-ahead goal just 23 seconds into the second half. 
•    Lopez (3-2-8) and Teddy Donahue (3-2-8) both have one game-winning goal, Carter Benoff (2-1-5) and Marc Kim (2-1-5) are tied for second on the team in scoring. 
•    DiStefano (2-5-3) has started 10 matches and owns a 1.79 goals against average and a .757 save percentage to along with one shutout. 

PLAYOFF PUSH
•    The Beavers enter their final two games of the regular season as the lone unbeaten in conference play and tied atop the standings with 16 points alongside WPI (5-1-1). 
•    Thanks to their victories over both MIT and WPI, Babson needs just three points from its final two games to secure a share of its second consecutive NEWMAC regular season title and the top seed in next week's conference tournament. 
•    Clark is currently two points out of the league's sixth and final playoff spot ahead of games against Babson on Wednesday and Emerson on Saturday. 

YABLONOVSKIY COLLECTS LEAGUE RECOGNITION
•    After producing the first two-goal game of his career against MIT on Saturday, Yablonovskiy was selected as the NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. 
•    He opened the scoring in the 49th minute before completing his brace with a diving header following a free kick in the 63rd minute. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    The Beavers are unbeaten in 18 straight NEWMAC games (17-0-1), including conference tournament matches, going back to October 30, 2021. 
•    Babson is riding a 19-game unbeaten streak in conference road matches (16-0-3) that dates back to the beginning of the 2018 campaign. 
•    The Green and White also boasts an 11-match unbeaten run (8-0-3) in the month of October going back to last season.

SECOND-HALF SCORING SURGE
•    After Yablonovskiy struck twice in the first 19 minutes after halftime on Saturday, the Beavers have now scored 19 of their 22 goals this season in the second half. 
•    Nine of the 19 markers have come after the 70th minute, which includes eight goals with less than 10 minutes to play. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers have been tied going into halftime in 13 of 17 games this fall. 
•    Babson is 10-1-3 on the year when conceding one goal or fewer. 
•    The Green and White is 34-0-2 when scoring the opening goal of the match since the start of the 2021 campaign. 
•    The Beavers are 2-0-4 in midweek games this season. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson wraps up the regular season at Coast Guard on Saturday at 12 p.m.