Women's Volleyball at the UMass Dartmouth Invitational 
Friday, September 15 | vs. Roger Williams | 8 p.m. 
Saturday, September 16 | vs. UMass Boston | 12 p.m. 
Saturday, September 16 | vs. UMass Dartmouth | 2 p.m. 
Tripp Athletic Center | Dartmouth, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    Babson will play three matches in less than 24 hours for the second consecutive weekend when it travels to the UMass Dartmouth Invitational. 
•    The Beavers face Roger Williams on Friday night and will take on both UMass Boston and the host Corsairs on Saturday afternoon. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. Roger Williams
•    Babson is 10-9 all-time against Roger Williams in a series that dates back to 1998.
•    The Beavers have won three straight and five of their last six matches against the Hawks, which includes a four-set triumph back in 2018. 

vs. UMass Boston
•    Babson is 23-7 all-time against the Beacons in a series that goes back to 1980.
•    The Beavers have won three of the four matches between the squads since 2015, which includes a three-set sweep in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament. 

vs. UMass Dartmouth 
•    The Beavers are 10-11 all-time against the Corsairs in a series that dates back to 1980. 
•    Babson has won its last four matches against UMass Dartmouth, which includes a 3-1 victory last September. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (5-1) has won two straight matches and is coming off a three-set sweep of Brandeis on Tuesday night. 
•    The trio of senior Erin Gray, classmate Lulu McShane and first-year Allison Molendyk combined for 23 kills and fellow rookie Zoe Ackerman chipped in with season highs of 19 assists and 10 digs for the Beavers. 
•    Gray (3.06 k/s) is hitting .294, McShane boasts a .273 hitting percentage while averaging 2.94 kills per set, and sophomore Lilly Steiner is contributing 2.44 kills and a team-high 0.81 blocks per set. 
•    Ackerman (3.94 asst/set, 1.78 digs/set) and senior Caroline Applewhite have combined to hand out 8.58 assists per game, while sophomore Roz Cabuena leads the Green and White in both total digs (64) and digs per set (3.76). 

SCOUTING THE HAWKS
•    Roger Williams (3-2) is coming off a 3-0 win over Eastern Connecticut State on Tuesday night. 
•    Sophomore Jillian Smith led all players with 11 kills and junior Ava Mattiucci finished with 26 assists, seven digs and six service aces for the Hawks, who got a combined 33 digs from sophomore Kaylee Jackson and first-year Marianna Hernandez. 
•    Smith (2.76 k/s) boasts a .340 hitting percentage, Jackson is averaging 2.61 kills and 3.06 digs per set and first-year Peyton Felix (1.97 k/s) is second on the team with nine total blocks. 
•    Mattiucci is handing out 9.22 assists per set and Hernandez is averaging a team-high 5.00 digs per game.

SCOUTING THE BEACONS
•    UMass Boston (4-3) extended its winning streak to three with a sweep of Saint Joseph's (Maine) on Tuesday night. 
•    Sophomore Lauren Westlund finished with 10 kills and eight digs, first-year Paige Coulson put away eight kills and senior Ally Dean led all players with 26 digs for the Beacons, who won the opening set 32-30. 
•    Westlund is averaging 2.40 kills per set, Coulson is contributing 2.26 kills per set and graduate student Taryn Broughal (2.14 k/s) is hitting a team-best .277 through seven matches. 
•    Sophomore Amelia Devlin is handing out 7.70 assists per set, while Dean leads the team with 4.68 digs per set. 

SCOUTING THE CORSAIRS
•    UMass Dartmouth (3-4) snapped a two-match skid by sweeping Regis in the second of two matches on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Senior Gabriella Monico registered 12 kills, sophomore Sabrina Bordone doled out 22 assists and classmate Emily Pogorelec finished with 16 digs and three aces for the Corsairs, who hit .234 as a team in the victory. 
•    Junior Kate Wade (2.61 k/s, 2.30 d/s) is hitting .208, senior Devon Laing is averaging 2.14 kills and 2.05 digs per set and senior Maggie Sullivan is contributing 1.89 kills per set while hitting a team-best .287 on the year.
•    Bordone and first-year Skye Peters have combined to hand out 9.96 assists per set and Pogorelec leads the squad in both digs (136) and digs per set (4.86). 

BALANCED BEAVERS
•    Four players have recorded double-digit kills in match, which includes a season-high 15 by Allison Molendyk against Framingham State in the season opener and Gray totaling a career-high 13 kills in last Friday's victory over Amherst. 
•    Three different setters have dished out at least 17 assists through the first six matches.
•    Ackerman, junior Tatum Stelter, sophomore Sophia Shaw and first-year Natalie Molendyk have all served up at least three aces in multiple matches. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 56-4 in three-set matches and 75-3 when winning the first set dating back to the start of the 2019 campaign. 
•    Babson is 4-0 on the year when limiting its opponents to a hitting percentage of .150 or lower. 
•    The Green and White has recorded 10 or more aces in four of its five wins. 
•    Babson is 27-4 since the start of the 2022 season when recording more kills than its foes. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers open NEWMAC play in Boston against Emerson on Tuesday night.