BABSON PARK, Mass. — Senior Elisa Diletizia (Canton, Mass.) scored two goals, including the game-winner in the 87th minute, as Babson College knocked off Springfield College, 3-2, in a key New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) women's soccer match Wednesday afternoon at Hartwell-Rogers Field.

With the victory, the Beavers won their second straight one-goal conference game to improve to 7-5-5 overall and 5-2-3 in the NEWMAC while the Pride had a two-game winning streak snapped and fell to 8-4-4 overall and 5-3-2 in conference play.

Senior Laura Lukowicz (Coventry, R.I.) also scored for the Beavers, and senior Jordyn Ferrantino (Millis, Mass.) and first-year Mack Feeney (North Attleboro, Mass.) collected assists. Senior Nora Ryan (Abington, Mass.) registered three saves in goal for the Green and White, which finished with an 8-5 advantage in shots on goal.

Junior Meredith Healy (Niantic, Conn.) and graduate student Olivia Raucci (Schenectady, N.Y.) scored for the visitors, and grad students Jen Walker (Webster, Mass.) and Gabby Scott (Sea Cliff, N.Y.) recorded assists. Senior Taryn Ryan (Holyoke, Mass.) made five saves between the pipes in the setback.

The outcome was decided in the final six minutes of the game with each team scoring a goal. Raucci pulled the Pride level in the 85th minute with her fifth goal of the season. On the second of consecutive corners, Scott knocked the service out of Nora Ryan's grasp in front of the Babson goal and Raucci hit the loose ball in traffic off Ryan and into the goal to tie the game at 2-2 with 5:22 on the clock.

Babson needed just 83 seconds to answer with what would turn out to be the game-winner. Feeney intercepted a goal kick and then sent a beautiful through-ball into the box, where Diletizia tracked it down and chipped it over a charging Taryn Ryan into the goal for her second goal of the game and sixth of the season to return the advantage to the Beavers with 3:59 to play. Springfield managed just one shot off target the rest of the way.

The Beavers jumped on top 2-0 with a pair of goals in the opening 14 minutes of the game. Diletizia opened the scoring 61 seconds after the opening whistle when she collected a loose ball in the box and hit a rocket inside the right post from 10 yards out. Babson doubled the lead on a corner kick as Lukowicz rose over a defender on the service from Ferrantino on the right side and drilled a header from the right inside the back post at the 13:58 mark.

Springfield got one goal back in the 20th minute when Walker sent in a cross from the right side to the goal mouth past the keeper, and Healey touched it through the legs of a Babson defender to make it 2-1.
 
Both teams had scoring opportunities later in the half. Lukowicz sent a 23-yard free kick just wide of the left post in the 30th minute for Babson, and junior Natalia Mottura (Scarsdale, N.Y.) had a 10-yard shot blocked, then got bumped off the rebound by Babson defender as the shot trickled to Ryan.
 
Babson produced a solid scoring chance in the 66th minute when first-year Lillian McAughan (Bellevue, Wash.) made a move around a defender along the right end line, but Ferrantino mishit the centering pass from the edge of the 6-yard box.
 
The Beavers finished with a 14-11 advantage in total shots, while each team took four corner kicks.

Both teams will wrap up the regular season on Saturday at 1 p.m. with the Green and White traveling to Clark and Springfield returning home to host Smith.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is 8-19-6 all-time against Springfield in a series that dates back to 1998 as the Beavers posted their first victory over the Pride since 2018.
• Diletizia scored two goals in a game for the third time in her career.
• The Beavers leapfrogged Springfield in the NEWMAC standings with 18 points and into second place, pending the outcome of the Smith-Mount Holyoke contest Wednesday night.