No. 7 Field Hockey vs. Saint Joseph's of Maine
Monday, October 14 | 12 p.m.
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• The Beavers have won all five career meetings between the two programs, all of which have come since 2019.
• The two teams opened the series in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament, with Babson winning 2-0.
• The Green and White posted shutouts in the first three and four of five games against the Monks.

LAST MEETING
• Sinead Walsh M'24 registered her first career hat trick and a tenacious defense prevented any shots by the Monks as No. 2 Babson rolled to a 7-0 victory over Saint Joe's on October 8, 2023 at MacDowell Field.
• Senior Camille Marsh tallied a goal and an assist and classmate Berit Sharrow, Jackie Hill M'24 and sophomore Emma Smith scored one goal each in the victory. Brianne McGrath '23 M'24 collected two assists and Meara Hanyon '23 M'24 added one helper for the Beavers.
• Senior goalie Kassidy Collins had a busy day in the St. Joe's net and finished with 12 saves. Hannah Michael '24 also prevented a goal with a defensive save.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 7 Babson (10-3, 5-0 NEWMAC) posted its fifth straight victory on Saturday with a 2-1 conference win at Salve Regina in Middletown, R.I.
• First-year Penny Baroni and sophomore Helen DiGiovanni scored goals six minutes apart in the third quarter in the win, and Sharrow and sophomore Ashley Braren registered assists. Senior Bayla Furmanek made five saves in goal for the Beavers, who limited the Seahawks to three goals below their league-leading average of more than four goals per game.
• DiGiovanni (9-3-21) has four goals in the last five outings and Evans (7-1-15) had her six-game goal scoring streak snapped on Saturday. Graduate student Katie Guden (5-2-12) had a four-game point streak snapped and classmate Andrea Marguerite (4-3-11) has four goals and three assists in the last seven games.
• Furmanek (0.77 GAA, 35 saves) leads the league in shutouts (7) and goals against average.

SCOUTING THE MONKS
• Saint Joseph's (6-6, 6-2 GNAC) has won five of its last six games, including an 8-0 rout of Albertus Magnus on Saturday in Standish, Maine.
• Senior Abbie Jacques scored a career-high four goals for the Monks, and sophomore Isabella Littler and junior Maya Waryas added a goal and two assists each. Juniors Sadie Terrell and Haley Kienna also scored and Collins made six first-half saves in the win.
• Haley (10-2-22) had back-to-back hat tricks last month against Elms and Southern Maine while Jacques (9-2-20) had a four-game goal streak in September as well. Waryas (5-2-12) is third on the team in scoring and Littler (3-3-9) is fourth in scoring while leading the team in assists.
• Collins (1.76 GAA, 95 svs.) has started all 12 games for the Seahawks and posted three shutouts.

HOME SWEET HOME
• After playing nine of their last 11 games on the road, the Beavers return home to play five of their six remaining regular season games on McDowell Field, where they are 3-1 this season.
• Babson is 17-1 at home since the beginning of last season and 41-5 over the past four seasons.

BEAVER BITES
• The Beavers are ranked fourth in Division III in shutouts per game (0.58) and 12th in team goals against average (0.72).
• The Green and White are ranked 13th in Division III in scoring margin (+2.72) and 18th in scoring average (3.44 goals per game).
• Babson has outscored its opponents 43-10, with eight multi-goal scorers and 12 players with at least one goal.

NCAA STATUS
• Furmanek ranks 12th this season in Division III in goals against average.
• The Beaver netminder recorded her 51st career victory on Saturday, which is tops in Division III and ranks second among active goalies in all NCAA Divisions.
• Furmanek is also sixth among active goalies in all divisions with a 0.85 career goals against average.

HISTORICAL SUCCESS
• The Babson seniors have achieved remarkable success since 2021, registering an overall record of 72-11 (.862).
• This year's team needs just one win to break the tie with the seniors of 2019, who went 72-17 in their four years.

AWESOME AUTUMN
• Since 2018, the Beavers are 50-0 in the month of October.
• The 50 victories include 22 at home, 27 on the road and one at a neutral site.
• The last loss in October was a 2-1 verdict at Montclair State on October 28, 2017.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• The Beavers are 30-2 since the start of last year and 65-2 over the past four seasons when scoring the first goal of the game.
• The Green and White have won its last 61 games over the past four campaigns when leading at halftime.
• Babson is 95-3 since 2018 when holding the opponents to fewer than two goals.

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will be home again on Saturday, hosting Springfield in a conference match-up at 12 p.m.