No. 18 Men's Soccer at No. 3 Amherst
Wednesday, September 27 | 4 p.m. 
Hitchcock Field | Amherst, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 4-16-6 all-time against Amherst in a series that dates back to 1981. 
•    The Beavers and Mammoths will meet for just the fourth time since 2003 on Wednesday. 
•    The Green and White is seeking its first victory against Amherst since 1994. 

LAST MEETING
•    Junior Fynn Hayton-Ruffner and senior Ada Okorogheye both scored and Amherst took a 2-0 lead in the 10th minute on the way to defeating the Beavers, 3-1, on September 20, 2022, in Babson Park. 
•    Alex Shahmirzadi and Jonny Novak both chipped in with assists for the Mammoths, who got three saves from Bernie White. 
•    Shamar Rainford '23 scored in the 77th minute and junior goalkeeper Walker White turned away seven shots in the loss for Babson. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 18 Babson (5-3-1) had its three-game winning streak stopped in a 2-1 loss to Connecticut College on Saturday. 
•    Senior Liam Rhatigan headed home first-year McKenzy Pierre's cross to tie the match in the 81st minute before the Camels struck back with the game winner 90 seconds later to snap the Beavers' 13-game home unbeaten streak. 
•    Graduate student Sam Morgan (3-2-8) has seven points over the last four games, Rhatigan and graduate student Justin Stone have both scored twice on the year and senior Louis Gazo (1-1-3) and first-year Will Lloyd (1-1-3) are tied for fifth on the team in points. 
•    White has started all nine games and owns a 0.67 goals against average and a .867 save percentage to go along with five clean sheets. 

SCOUTING THE MAMMOTHS
•    No. 3 Amherst (6-0-1) extended Division III's second longest unbeaten streak to 23 matches with a 5-2 win over Colby on Sunday. 
•    Junior Simon Kalinauskas scored a pair of goals and Okorogheye, Hayton-Ruffner and junior Ignacio Cubeddu each tallied once for the Mammoths, who built a three-goal advantage less than 25 minutes into the contest. 
•    Okorogheye (3-3-9) and Kalinauskas (3-1-7) have combined for three game-winning goals, senior Shawn Rapal (3-0-6) has scored twice in the last three matches, and Cubeddu (1-4-6) is first on the team in assists. 
•    Senior Max Landa boasts a 0.22 goals against average, a .941 save percentage and has been part of four shutouts in six appearances, while sophomore Juan Perez has posted a 1.20 goals against average in four games. 

FINISHING TOUCH
•    After scoring just three goals over its first five matches, Babson has tallied eight times over its last four games, which includes victories over Western New England, WPI and Eastern Connecticut State. 
•    Seven different players have at least one marker this fall for the Beavers, a group that includes sophomore Liam Goldstein and first-year Alexander Yablonovskiy. 

NON-CONFERENCE TESTS AGAINST THE NESCAC
•    The Green and White is in the midst of a stretch that has it playing three of the top teams in the NESCAC over an 11-day period. 
•    In addition to Connecticut College and the third-ranked Mammoths, Babson will host Tufts (5-1-1) next Tuesday at Hartwell-Rogers Field. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers have played six games this season that have been decided by a single goal or finished in a draw. 
•    Babson is 4-0 this fall and 30-0-2 since 2019 when scoring the opening goal of the match. 
•    The Green and White has gone 5-1-1 on the year when conceding one goal or fewer. 
•    The Beavers have either held the lead or been tied going into halftime in eight of nine contests this season. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson travels to Emerson, which it defeated in last year's NEWMAC Tournament final, on Saturday at 1 p.m.