MEDFORD, Mass.—No. 12 Babson College and No. 2 Tufts University both scored late goals as the sides battled to a 1-1 draw in non-conference men's soccer action on Tuesday night at Bello Field. 

With the result, both teams remain unbeaten on the year as Babson is now 4-0-6, while Tufts moves to 7-0-2. 

Sophomore Alexander Yablonskiy (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) scored his second goal of the season, while senior goalkeeper Walker White (Coral Gables, Fla.) made four saves for the Beavers. 

Sophomore Xavier Canfin (Tarrytown, N.Y.) had a goal and graduate student Liam Gerken (Pales Verdes, Calif.) provided an assist for the Jumbos, who got three saves from junior Nikola Antic (Waltham, Mass.). 

The Green and White opened the scoring in the 80th minute following a giveaway in the box. First-year Phillip Finch (La Jolla, Calif.) lost possession of the ball after carrying it into the box but the Tufts clearance deflected off Yablonovskiy, who then won a battle for the loose ball and took a touch around Antic before hitting the opening net. 

Facing its first deficit of the season, the Jumbos finally broke through a stout Babson defense to score the equalizer in the 89th minute when Canfin got a head on Gerken's corner kick with a mass of bodies in the goal mouth for his fourth marker of the year. 

White made three of his four saves in the first half, which includes sliding into position to deny graduate student Mikey Brady (Washington, D.C.) in the 22nd minute before diving to his left to snare Brady's one-touch bid to open the scoring off a service from the left wing less than a minute later. Classmate Max Clivio (Kingston, Jamaica) also flicked a header just over the crossbar in the 14th minute and junior Daniel Yanez (Short Hills, N.J.) hit a 23-yard free kick just over the bar in the 70th minute. 

Antic saved Beavers' graduate student James Donaldson's (Kirkland, Quebec) in the 30th minute and senior Liam Rhatigan (Holderness, N.H.) saw his back post header off a corner kick sail just off target in the 44th minute. The Tufts defense did well to block sophomore McKenzy Pierre's (West Orange, N.J.) shot out of play after a strong run into the box by Yablonovskiy in the 49th minute, while graduate student Marco Cerezo (Malaga, Spain) missed just wide of the right post in the 60th minute. 

The Jumbos finished with a 16-11 edge in shots and slim 7-5 advantage in corner kicks. 

Both teams return to action on Saturday at 2 p.m. as Babson hosts Emerson, while Tufts takes on Trinity. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are now 9-10-3 all-time against Tufts and the teams have split their last five matches, which includes three consecutive draws. 
•    Babson extended its regular-season unbeaten streak to 20 games (9-0-11) going back to last September and is unbeaten in its last 13 road matches. 
•    The Green and White is now 39-1-6 going back to 2021 when scoring the first goal of the game. 
•    Yablonovskiy's goal in the 80th minute snapped a streak of 259 scoreless minutes between Babson and the Jumbos dating back to 2022.