Women's Volleyball vs. Mount Holyoke
Tuesday, October 8 | 7 p.m.
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 21-16 all-time against Mount Holyoke in a series that dates back to 1988. 
•    The Beavers have recorded 12 consecutive three-set victories over the Lyons and have lost just once in the last 17 meetings between the teams dating back to 2006. 
•    The Green and White has won eighth consecutive matches in the series inside Staake Gymnasium going back to 2007. 

LAST MEETING
•    Senior Lauren Gips led all players with 12 kills, four blocks and three service aces as the Beavers cruised past Mount Holyoke in three sets, 25-17, 25-22, 25-14, on October 3, 2023, in South Hadley, Mass. 
•    Erin Gray '24 added eight kills and a match-high 19 digs, senior Tatum Stelter finished with 15 digs and three aces, and Ruby Reich '24 and sophomore Zoe Ackerman combined to hand out 27 assists for the Beavers. 
•    Madeline Barton recorded eight kills, Sadie Duffrin dished out 20 assists and Kyra Staples contributed 16 digs for the Lyons, who hit just .028 in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS 
•    Babson (15-1, 4-0 NEWMAC) enters the week riding an 11-match winning streak following Saturday's 3-0 sweep of Roger Williams. 
•    Gips registered 16 kills while hitting .519, junior Isabella Allen added nine kills and Ackerman handed out 35 assists for the Beavers, who served up 11 aces and hit .282 in the victory. 
•    Gips (3.35 kills/set, 0.98 blocks/set) ranks first in Division III with a .457 hitting percentage, Allen (3.09 k/s) is hitting a career-best .270 and senior Lauren Griffin is averaging 2.24 kills per set. 
•    Ackerman ranks second in the NEWMAC in assists per set (9.92) and third in service aces (36), while junior Sophia Shaw leads the team with 223 digs and ranks sixth in the conference averaging 4.46 digs per set. 

SCOUTING THE LYONS
•    Mount Holyoke (8-6, 0-4 NEWMAC) has dropped five consecutive matches and is coming off a 3-0 loss against No. 5 MIT on Saturday. 
•    Barton and Lucie Berclaz both produced seven kills, Duffrin dished out 21 assists to go along with eight digs and Staples contributed 18 digs for the Lyons.
•    Barton (3.39 k/s, 2.78 digs/set) ranks sixth in the NEWMAC in kills, Berclaz is averaging 2.48 kills and 2.76 digs, and Elle Rimando is contributing 2.04 kills and leads the team with 19 total blocks. 
•    Duffrin ranks fifth in the conference handing out 8.22 assists per set to go along with 2.08 digs, while Staples ranks second in the league averaging 5.22 digs per set. 

GIPS COLLECTS OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS
•    After averaging 4.38 kills, 1.15 blocks and 5.23 points per set over four matches, Gips was selected as the NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. 
•    She recorded 57 kills against just six errors and finished the week with a .500 hitting percentage, and put away 10 or more kills in all four matches. 

WINNING WAYS
•    Going back to 2017, Babson has put together a winning streak of at least eight matches in seven consecutive seasons. 
•    The Beavers' current 11-match streak is tied for the fourth longest during this stretch with the 2019 squad that began the season 11-0. 
•    The 2019 squad also had a 22-match winning streak and the Green and White rattled off 16 consecutive victories in both 2022 and 2023. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Ackerman has recorded 29 or more assists in 11 consecutive matches going back to September 7. 
•    Gips has finished with double-digit kills and two or fewer errors in eight straight outings since September 21. 
•    Junior Hailey Fouche has registered two or more blocks in four straight matches. 
•    Shaw has contributed at least 11 digs in seven of the last eight matches, while first-year Sabina Frosk has provided eight or more digs in each of the last five contests. 

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    With four aces in Saturday's win over Roger Williams, Stelter passed Brianna San Diego '15 for fourth place on the program's all-time list with 179 career aces. 
•    Gips now ranks 11th in program history with 205 total blocks, 15th with 569 kills and 17th with 768.0 points in addition to ranking first with a .367 career hitting percentage. 

HOME SWEET HOME
•    With three more wins over the weekend, Babson is now 12-1 this fall inside Staake Gymnasium. 
•    The Beavers are 32-3 at home going back to the start of the 2022 campaign and is 138-17, which is good for a .890 winning percentage, since head coach Eric Neely was hired prior to the start of the 2011 season. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers rank 14th in Division III in hitting percentage (.246) and have hit .200 or better in nine of the last 10 matches. 
•    Babson is 11-0 this fall and has won 30 straight matches over the last two years when its foes finish with a hitting percentage of .150 or lower. 
•    The Green and White is 34-2 since the start of last season when recording more service aces than its opponents. 
•    During its current 11-match winning streak, Babson has dropped just four sets. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers hit the road for its next four matches beginning with a trip to Rivier to face the host Raiders and Nichols on Saturday starting at 11 a.m.