No. 11 Men's Soccer vs. Salve Regina
NEWMAC Tournament Final
Saturday, November 9 | 12:30 p.m. 
Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 9-0 all-time against Salve Regina in a series that dates back to 2000.
•    The Beavers have won all five of their matches versus the Seahawks at home sine 2001. 
•    Saturday's contest will be just the third between the sides since 2007. 

POSTSEASON HISTORY
•    Saturday's conference final will be the first postseason meeting between Babson and Salve Regina, which is in just its second season in the NEWMAC. 

LAST MEETING
•    Graduate student Kento Abe and sophomore McKenzy Pierre both scored twice to help the Beavers defeat Salve Regina, 5-0, on October 12 in Babson Park. 
•    Senior Liam Rhatigan scored the opening goal in the fifth minute, classmate Matias Gutierrez provided a pair of assists and fellow senior Walker White made two saves for Babson, which led 2-0 at halftime and scored twice in the first 15 minutes of the second half. 
•    Adonis Santiago and Nick Giorgi combined to make five saves in the loss for the Seahawks. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Top-seeded and 11th-ranked Babson (13-1-6) has won six consecutive games after rolling past fifth-seeded Springfield 4-0 in Thursday's semifinals. 
•    Abe, graduate student James Donaldson and seniors Lyndon Way and Lorenzo Mancini all scored for the Beavers, who went in front in the sixth minute and tacked on two more goals over the first 15 minutes of the second half against the Pride, which was reduced to 10 men following a 40th-minute red card. 
•    Abe (7-5-19) and Donaldson (7-5-19) have combined for six goals over the last four matches, Rhatigan (5-1-11) is third on the team in goals and the duo of Gutierrez (4-3-11) and sophomore Alexander Yablonovskiy (4-3-11) are tied for third on the team in assists. 
•    White has started all 20 games and ranks 13th in Division III with a 0.52 goals against average to go along with a .825 save percentage and eight solo and 12 combined shutouts this fall. 

SCOUTING THE SEAHAWKS
•    Second-seeded Salve Regina (10-7-3) advanced to Saturday's final with a 2-1 semifinal victory over third-seeded Coast Guard in the program's first NEWMAC Tournament contest on Thursday night. 
•    Daniel Goba scored the opening goal in the 57th minute and then converted a penalty kick with 7:28 to go in regulation for the Seahawks, who got five saves from Adonis Santiago to reach their first final since being a member of the CCC back in 2021. 
•    Goba (14-5-33) leads the conference in scoring and has produced five goals over the last four games, Jordan Borges (3-7-13) is tied for first in the NEWMAC in assists and Danny Bond (3-1-7) scored twice in league play this fall. 
•    Santiago has gone 6-2-3 in 12 appearances on the year and owns a 1.04 goals against average and a .750 save percentage to go along with a pair of clean sheets. 

GUTIERREZ NAMED NEWMAC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
•    After registering his first career brace and finishing with a career-high five points in Saturday's win over Coast Guard, Gutierrez was tabbed as the league's offensive player of the week on Monday. 
•    He scored his first goal of the game in the 23rd minute and gave the Beavers a 4-0 advantage with a header in the 65th minute. 

STRIKING EARLY
•    Babson has scored a first half goal in each of its last eight outings against NEWMAC opponents and outscored its foes 10-0 over the opening 45 minutes in five games against league foes at home this fall. 
•    Overall, the Beavers have scored eight times inside the 10 minutes this season and are outscoring their opponents 18-3 in the first half of games. 

TOURNAMENT TESTED
•    The Beavers, who own 10 NEWMAC Tournament championships since 2002 (2002, 2004, 2008-10, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2022), have now advanced to the league final 17 times in 22 tries since 1999. 
•    Babson is 4-2-1 in seven conference championship games played at home although its raised the NEWMAC championship cup on Hartwell-Rogers Field for the first time since 2010 two years ago with a 1-0 victory over Emerson. 
•    The Green and White is playing in its sixth consecutive conference final and have now appeared in 14 of the last 18 championship games going back to 2006. 

MOVING UP THE ALL-TIME WINS LIST
•    Babson head coach Jon Anderson '75, who ranks third among active Division III coaches, enters Saturday's match with 467 career victories and is just one away from matching Tony Ochrimenko (Kean) for 12th on the all-time Division III wins list. 
•    Now in his 39th season leading the Beavers, Anderson trails only Jay Martin of Ohio Wesleyan (773 wins) and Paul McGinlay of Trinity (Texas), who has 567 victories, on the active list. 

GETTING IN ON THE ACT
•    Way and Mancini, who notched her first career goal with a second-half penalty kick against Springfield, became the 12th and 13th players to produced a goal this season
•    Abe and Donaldson are tied for fifth in the NEWMAC in both points and assists and seventh in goals, while graduate student Tyler Fidrych is tied for eighth with four assists. 
•    Entering Saturday's match, nine different players have scored at least two goals and six players have provided at least three assists for the Green and White. 

STREAKING INTO THE POSTSEASON
•    Donaldson is the first Babson player to record a goal in four consecutive games since 2018 when Noah Parker '19 achieved the feat in games against Tufts, Wheaton, Eastern Connecticut State and Clark from October 9-20. 
•    As a team, the Beavers are unbeaten in 31 consecutive matches against conference foes (26-0-5) dating back to October 21. 
•    Babson also is 9-0-2 this fall at Hartwell-Rogers Field and is unbeaten in its last 16 matches at home dating back to last year. 

FORMER BEAVER ON THE OTHER SIDE
•    Salve Regina interim head coach Bill Lawler '98 served three stints as an assistant coach with the Beavers following his playing career (1998-99, 2003, 2017-22). 
•    He ranks fourth on Babson's career list with a .859 save percentage and helped the program capture a pair of Constitution Athletic Conference (CAC) regular season titles in 1996 and 1997. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Since falling to Springfield in the 2018 NEWMAC Tournament final, the Beavers are 9-0-1 in the conference playoffs. 
•    Babson has kept six consecutive clean sheets at home and has not conceded a goal in 546:46 going back to its 1-1 draw with Amherst on September 24. 
•    The Green and White is 9-0-1 this fall when leading at halftime. 
•    The Beavers are 13-0-6 this season and are unbeaten in 33 straight matches when conceding one goal or fewer since a 1-0 loss at Stevens on September 10, 2023. 
•    Babson has not allowed a first-half goal in seven consecutive home games and has conceded just one goal over the opening 45 minutes in its last 14 contests at Hartwell-Rogers Field. 

UP NEXT
•    The winner of Saturday's match will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Beavers, who rank 10th in the latest Division III NPI rankings, are likely to hear their name called as an at-large selection on Monday afternoon if they do not claim the league's automatic bid.