PROVIDENCE, R.I.— Junior Riley Hasson (South Portland, Maine) and sophomore Xavier Botelho (Rehoboth, Mass.) each had three hits with a double and two runs batted in and senior Miles Kelly (East Setauket N.Y.) hit a double and a home run and knocked in two as Johnson & Wales University blanked Babson College, 9-0, in non-conference baseball action Monday afternoon at the Scotts Miracle-Gro Athletic Complex.

With the loss, Babson dropped its second straight while Johnson & Wales won its third game in a row and both teams end the day with 20-13 records.

Babson managed just one hit off five Wildcat hurlers, a fifth-inning single by graduate student Jack Pirkl (Brightwaters, N.Y.), yet managed to reach base on nine walks but could not capitalize. Senior Adam Smith (Allentown, Pa.) started on the mound and allowed three runs on two hits and two walks in 2.1 innings and took the loss, one of six Beaver pitchers who saw action.

Sophomore Owen Davis (Bristol, Conn.) and graduate student Griffin Snyder (Marietta, Ga.) knocked in runs for the Wildcats and first-year Jack Obert (Plymouth, Mass.) and sophomore Trevor Juan (Bolton, Conn.) each singled and scored a run. Four JWU pitchers worked two scoreless innings each despite combining for the nine walks, with sophomore Justin Markell (San Diego, Calif.) recording the win, and first-year Ben Fosberg (Natick, Mass.) pitched a scoreless ninth for the Wildcats.

Davis gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead with an RBI single in the second inning and two more runs came home in the third on a sacrifice fly by Hasson and an RBI single by Botelho. JWU took control of the game in the fifth inning when Kelly blasted a two-run home run and Botelho delivered an RBI double to extend the lead to 6-0.

The home team added another run in the seventh on an infield grounder and wrapped up the scoring with a pair of unearned runs in the eighth.

The Beavers left nine runners on base, including five in scoring position. The Green and White were also victims of three JWU double plays.

Babson is right back in action on Tuesday with a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) home game against Clark at 3:30 p.m. at Govoni Field. JWU hosts WPI in a non-conference game Wednesday at 6 p.m.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is 7-2 all-time against Johnson & Wales in a series that dates back to 2006.
• The one hit for the Green and White is the fewest since MIT held Babson to one hit in a 5-0 loss in a NEWMAC Tournament game on May 4, 2013 while the nine walks tie for the third most in a game this season.
• Junior Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.) extended his on-base streak to 14 games with a third inning walk but first-year Chris Basile (Miami Beach, Fla.) had his nine-game hitting streak snapped.