No. 7 Field Hockey vs. Roger Williams
Thursday, September 7 | 7 p.m.
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Thursday's game is the first career meeting between the Hawks and Beavers.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 7 Babson (2-0) has opened the season with back-to-back road victories, blanking Endicott 4-0 last Friday and Connecticut College on Tuesday, 3-1.
• Junior Camille Marsh scored a pair of fourth-quarter goals to propel the Beavers in Tuesday's win over the Camels in New London, Conn. Graduate student Meara Hanyon tallied her second goal of the season in the first quarter and junior Bayla Furmanek finished with one save in the victory. 
• Hanyon (2-1-5) and Marsh (2-0-4) are multi-goal scorers through two games for the Green and White, while graduate students Brianne McGrath and Sinead Walsh and junior Berit Sharrow have one goal each and grad student Daniela Parrado-Nazal has one assist.
• Furmanek (2-0, 0.50 GAA, .667 sv. pct) posted her ninth career shutout against Endicott and has needed to make just two saves in the first two games.

SCOUTING THE HAWKS
• Roger Williams (2-0) is off to a similar start to the campaign, downing WPI 5-0 last Friday and defeating Mount Holyoke 3-1 on Saturday in a pair of home games at Bayside Field.
• Sophomore Lily Tobin, first-year Maddy Monahan and sophomore Hannah Timbrouck produced second half goals in the win over Mount Holyoke. Sophomore Chelsea King tallied a hat trick in the triumph over WPI while Timbrouck added a goal and an assist and Monahan contributed one goal.
• Junior Jill Haudenshield played goal in the first half and was credited with the win in both games this fall while sophomore Hannah Brazil has manned the goal in both second halves to secure the wins. Each goalie has made two saves on the season.
• RWU finished 12-8 a year ago after a trip to the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) semifinals.

FRIENDLY CONFINES
• The Green and White will play six of their next eight game on home turf at MacDowell Field, where they have won 24 of their last 28 games.
• Babson finished with a 10-3 record at MacDowell Field last year after winning its first 14 home games in 2021 before falling to Trinity in the NCAA quarterfinals. The Beavers are 67-16 at home since the start of the 2015 season.

RANKED OPPONENTS AWAIT
• Babson will face four nationally-ranked teams this month, including three of the top six teams in the NFHCA preseason Division III poll.
• The Green and White will visit fifth-ranked Williams this Saturday, host No. 22 Bates next Wednesday, travel to top-ranked Middlebury on September 17, and host No. 6 Tufts on September 26.
• The Beavers are also scheduled to face 12th-ranked MIT on October 21 at MacDowell Field.

STARTING STRONG
• Since 2019, the Beavers are 20-7 in the month of September with three of their losses coming against top-ranked Middlebury.
• Friday's result against Endicott marked the 14th time in the last 15 seasons that Babson has opened the year with a victory.

PLAYERS TO WATCH
• Five members of the Babson program were named to the 2023 National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division III Watchlist sponsored by Victory Sport Tours last week. 
• McGrath, Walsh, Sharrow, Furmanek and senior Andrea Marguerite were among 136 student-athletes from 55 institutions named to the list. 
• Per the NFHCA, the list is intended to showcase field hockey student-athletes with the strongest potential for consideration to the current year's All-America teams.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• The Green and White have won 37 straight games since the start of the 2021 campaign when scoring the first goal of the game.
• Babson has won its last 35 games over the past two campaigns when leading at halftime.
• The Green and White have won 105 straight games since 2014 when scoring at least three times.
• The Beavers have won 68 of 70 contests since 2018 when holding opponents to less than two goals.

UP NEXT
• The Beavers play their second game against a team from the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) this Saturday when they travel to No. 5 Williams for an 11 a.m. encounter. Williams handed Babson one of its four losses last season.