Men's Soccer vs. WPI | Saturday, September 16 | 1 p.m. 
Men's Soccer vs. Eastern Connecticut State | Sunday, September 17 | 2 p.m. 
Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    After three straight games on the road, Babson returns home for back-to-back matches this weekend at Hartwell-Rogers Field. 
•    The Beavers host WPI in the NEWMAC opener for both teams on Saturday and will take on Eastern Connecticut State in a non-conference fixture on Sunday. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. WPI
•    Babson is 41-9-5 all-time against the Engineers in a series that dates back to 1974. 
•    The sides have finished deadlocked three times over the last six matches and four straight games between 2018-21 went to double overtime. 
•    Mitchell Collins '23 had two goals and senior Louis Gazo had a first-half marker as the Green and White defeated WPI, 3-1, on October 15, 2022, in Worcester. 

vs. Eastern Connecticut State
•    Babson is 8-6-0 all-time against Eastern Connecticut State in a series that goes back to 1969. 
•    The Beavers have won their five matches against the Warriors in Babson Park, including four victories at Hartwell-Rogers Field, since 2012. 
•    The home team had won seven consecutive games in the series until last season when Gazo's 77th-minute strike helped the Green and White escape Willimantic, Conn., with a 1-0 win on October 18. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (3-2-1, 0-0-0 NEWMAC) snapped a two-game skid with a 2-0 win at Western New England on Thursday afternoon. 
•    Graduate student Sam Morgan broke a scoreless deadlock in the 63rd minute and converted a penalty kick in the 81st minute for the Beavers, who got three saves from junior goalkeeper Walker White. 
•    Morgan (2-1-5) leads the team in goals and points, while graduate student Justin Stone, senior Liam Rhatigan and sophomore Liam Goldstein have each scored once. 
•    White has started all six matches and boasts a 0.50 goals against average and a .903 save percentage to go along with four clean sheets. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    WPI (1-1-3) is unbeaten over its last three games and is coming off a 1-1 draw with Eastern Nazarene on Tuesday. 
•    Junior Matthew Biando scored in the 39th minute and graduate student Julian Quaresima made four second-half saves for the Engineers, who conceded the tying goal in the 82nd minute. 
•    Biando, senior Codey Battista and graduate students Billy Chissoe and Francesco Valagussa each have one goal and three players have registered an assist for the Engineers, who have been shut out just once over their first five matches. 
•    Quaresima is 0-1-3 with a 1.95 goals against average and a .741 save percentage to go along with one shutout in five games, while senior Ryan Martin has stopped all six shots he's faced in two starts. 

SCOUTING THE WARRIORS
•    Eastern Connecticut State (0-1-1) will play its first match since September 3 when it hosts Southern Maine in its LEC opener on Friday afternoon. 
•    The Warriors followed up a 2-2 draw with Farmingdale State on September 1 with a 3-0 loss to Brandeis two days later. 
•    Senior Andres Mayuri and first-year Julius McNeil have each produced a goal, while sophomore Niall O'Brien has one assist for a team that finished 12-6-2 in 2022. 
•    Junior goalkeeper Nathan Yeich has allowed five goals while making six saves in two starts on the year. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Babson has won 10 consecutive games at Hartwell-Rogers Field, which includes nine straight shutouts. 
•    The Beavers, who played to a 0-0 draw with Suffolk on MacDowell Field on September 5, are unbeaten in 11 consecutive matches at home and have not conceded a goal in more than 913 minutes at home dating back to October 1 of last season.

CONFERENCE SUCCESS
•    Babson has captured three consecutive NEWMAC Tournament championships (2019, 2021, 2022) while tying for first in the league standings in 2019 and capturing the program's first outright regular season conference title since 2018 last fall. 
•    The Beavers have won 12 consecutive games against conference foes dating back to October 30, 2021, and are 21-1-6 versus NEWMAC foes in the regular season since 2018. 

FAMILIAR PLACE ATOP THE POLL
•    After winning their third consecutive NEWMAC Tournament championship last November, Babson was picked to repeat when the conference released its preseason coaches' poll back in August.
•    The Beavers collected seven of a possible nine first-place votes to finish atop the poll with 61 points. Wheaton, which they defeated in last year's conference semifinals, came in second while MIT, WPI and Emerson, the 2022 NEWMAC Tournament runner-up, rounded out the top five.

DEPTH IN THE DAM
•    Six players – juniors Patrick Demaso and Matias Gutierrez, sophomore Matthew Ziegler and first-years McKenzy Pierre, Ben Constantino and Ted Rosenfeld – all were part of the starting XI for the first time in their respective careers in Thursday's victory at Western New England. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers host Connecticut College next Saturday at 2:30 p.m.