WORCESTER, Mass. — No. 6 Babson College scored three goals in an 11-minute stretch midway through the first half and then made the score stand to defeat WPI, 3-0, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) field hockey action Tuesday evening at H.Carr Field.

The Beavers won their second straight game to improve to 7-3 overall and 3-0 in conference play while WPI suffered its first conference loss of the season and dipped to 5-5 overall and 2-1 in the NEWMAC.

Seniors Camille Marsh (Englewood, Colo.) and Jessica Evans (Southbury, Conn.) and junior Caroline DiGiovanni (Harwich, Mass.) scored goals for the Green and White. Graduate student Katie Guden (Belmont, Mass.) and senior Ellie Powers (Bethlehem, Pa.) collected assists and senior Bayla Furmanek (State College, Pa.) registered one save to record her sixth shutout of the season.

Senior Ella Moreau (Huntington, Mass.) came off the bench for WPI and made seven saves while allowing just one goal in 45 minutes of action between the pipes.

Marsh put the Beavers on the board in the seventh minute of play. She intercepted a WPI clear attempt out of its own zone, weaved through several defenders into the circle and fired a shot from 10 yards out on the left side that went just inside the right post for her third goal of the season.

The host's best chance for a goal came just over a minute later when the Crimson and Gray earned three penalty corners in a 46-second span but were denied a goal despite a pair of shots during the flurry.

The Beavers doubled their lead late in the period. Junior Sanne van der Goes (Glenview, Ill.) sent a pass toward the right end line, where Evans collected it and dribbled toward the goal before sliding a pass in front of the goal. Guden redirected the pass to DiGiovanni, who buried a shot into an empty net for her team-leading eighth of the season.

Evans made it a 3-0 game two and a half minutes into the second frame. Marsh send a pass back to Powers in the middle of the field about 10 yards outside the circle, and Powers sent a blast toward the goal, which was tipped in front by Evans past Moreau for her fifth goal of the year.

The Green and White outshot the hosts 9-0 in the second quarter with six penalty corners but had to settle for just the one score and a 3-0 lead at the break.
The Engineers tightened up the defense in the third quarter, surrendering just three shots and two corners to keep the visitors off the board. Babson kept the pressure on in the final stanza, outshooting WPI 5-1 but could not get anything else past Moreau.

The Beavers finished with a 21-3 shot advantage for the game, including 11-1 in shots on target, as well as a 12-3 margin in penalty corners.

Babson returns home to host Smith in a NEWMAC contest on Saturday at MacDowell Field at 12 p.m. WPI visits Springfield for a conference tilt on Saturday at 4 p.m.

GAME NOTES
• Babson has won 13 in a row over the Engineers and has a 28-15 advantage over WPI in the all-time series that dates back to 1985.
• The Beavers have won 62 consecutive NEWMAC regular season games dating back to 2015.
• DiGiovanni is now second in the NEWMAC with eight goals on the season. She needs just two more to match her career high for goals in a season, set last year.