Box Score CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Fourth-ranked MIT built big leads in each of the first two sets on the way to sweeping visiting Babson College, 25-23, 25-9, 25-20, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) women's volleyball action on Tuesday night inside Rockwell Cage. 

Babson, which has dropped three of its last four matches, slips to 22-5 overall and 7-3 in conference play. MIT, which clinched at least a share of its third NEWMAC regular season title in the lats four seasons, improves to 27-0 overall and 10-0 in league play. 

Junior Isabella Allen (Williamsville, N.Y.) led all players with 11 kills, while senior Lauren Gips (Winter Park, Fla.) added eight kills for the Beavers. Sophomore Zoe Ackerman (Aurora, Colo.) handed out 22 assists, junior Roz Cabuena (Kailua, Hawaii) recorded a match-high 24 digs and first-year Emma Watts (Northport, N.Y.) chipped in with a season-high 14 digs in the loss. 

Sophomore Eileen Sadati (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) led a balanced attacked with eight kills, senior Ella Gragg (Morganton, N.C.) contributed seven kills and 14 digs, and first-year Julia Tolstova (Redlands, Calif.) added six kills and two blocks to pace the Engineers. Sophomore Kayleigh May (Camarillo, Calif.) dished out 25 assists, graduate student Consecreta Rozario (Cary, N.C.) led all players with seven blocks and senior Ottavia Personeni (Bethesda, Md.) finished with 21 digs in the win. 

MIT raced out to a 10-4 lead and was up 23-12 in the opening set before the Green and White mounted a furious rally late. The Beavers scored went on a 6-0 run that included five straight points on the serve of Gips to pull within 23-18. The Engineers stopped the run with a kill but Allen answered with four kills in the span of five points to cut the Babson deficit to 24-23 before graduate student Ashley Margetts (Brownsburg, Ind.) thwarted the comeback with a kill. 

The hosts opened game two with a 10-2 run and hit .308 while recording  11 kills to grab a two-set lead. The Beavers were up as many as five early in the third before MIT went on an 8-1 run that included three straight blocks by Rozario to go in front for good. 

The Green and White pulled within a point four times in the frame, that least coming at 14-13 on a kill by Allen, before the Engineers rattled off five of the next six points to extend the margin to 19-14 on a kill by Gragg. 

Both teams conclude the regular season on Saturday as Babson hosts Springfield at 4 p.m., while MIT travels to Northampton, Mass., for a tri-match against Smith and Union starting at 12 p.m. 

MATCH NOTES
•    The Beavers have dropped four of their last five matches against MIT, which includes three straight losses inside Rockwell Cage. 
•    Babson hit a season worst .031 in Tuesday's loss while holding the Engineers to their second lowest hitting percentage (.192) of the year. 
•    Cabuena, who has missed much of the season due to injury, played in just her seventh match of the year and saw her first action since September 21 on Tuesday night. 
•    Gips is now one of just four players in program history to surpass 400 points in a season and moved into ninth place on the Beavers' single-season list with 316 kills.