AMHERST, Mass.— Senior goalie Connor Leslie (Leesburg, Va.) stopped all 25 shots he faced, junior Josh Burke (Tampa, Fla.) tallied a goal and two assists, and three players contributed a goal and a helper each as Amherst College overpowered Babson College, 7-0, in non-conference men's ice hockey action Sunday afternoon inside the Orr Rink.

The Beavers, playing their fifth game in 10 days, drop to 4-5-1 on the season while Amherst, in its fifth outing in nine days, improves to 2-3-1 overall.

Sophomore Mason Rosado (Weddington, N.C.) made 29 saves in goal for the Beavers in the loss. The only bright spots for the Green and White came in the face-off circle, where they won 34-of-56 puck drops, including 9-of-12 by junior Ryan Murphy (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), 9-of-14 by classmate Danny Cavanagh (Warwick, R.I.), and 8-of-13 and 8-of-14 by fellow juniors Cam Joslin (Cohasset, Mass.) and Ian Driscoll (Middleton, Mass.), respectively.

Junior Zachary Murray (Alexandria, Va.), first-year Cristobal Tola (Georgetown, Ont.) and senior Matt Toporowski (Kirkland, Que.) tallied a goal and an assist each for the Mammoths and first-year Ben Cook (Concord, Mass.) collected three assists. Junior Andrew Carmody (North Haven, Conn.), senior Ben Kuzma (Sewickley, Pa.) and sophomore Vincent Velocci (King City, Ont.) notched one goal each as 14 different Mammoths earned at least one point in the victory.

The Mammoths used a power play to take the lead midway through the first frame. Sophomore Jesse Zack (Dallas, Pa.) sent diagonal pass from the top of the right circle to Kuzma at the bottom of the left circle, and Kuzma's tough angle shot got past Rosado for a 1-0 lead.

The hosts doubled their lead at 4:38 of the second period when Murray picked up a loose puck in the right corner, skated behind the net and scored on a wraparound, slipping a backhander from the left side inside the far post. The Mammoths pulled way with a pair of goals just 64 seconds apart, as Tola buried his own rebound from the left circle at 13:32 and Toporowski finished off a goal on a rebound of sophomore Jacob Pohl's (Chicago, Ill.) attempt at 14:36.

Amherst extended its lead in the first two minutes of the third period with another power play goal as Carmody fired a shot from the high slot past a screened Rosado. A 2-on-1 for the Mammoths led to the sixth goal as Velocci ripped a shot from the left face-off dot inside the far post at 7:31, and Burke rounded out the scoring with 2:34 remaining, putting home a rebound off Cook's shot from the point.

The Purple and White finished with a 36-25 advantage in shots on goal and went 2-for-4 on the power play while killing off all three Babson opportunities with the man advantage.

Babson returns to New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) action with a two-game series at New England College on Friday and Saturday in Henniker, N.H. Amherst continues with game two of a five-game homestand Friday against Middlebury.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is 26-18-4 all-time against the Mammoths in a series that dates back to the 1972-73 season.
• The Beavers went 0-2-1 in the last six days against teams from the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and are now 10-5-4 against the conference since the 2019-20 campaign.
• The Green and White were shut out for the first time since a 5-0 loss at No. 1 Hobart last January, and the seven goals allowed were the most since an 8-4 loss at UMass Boston on February 9, 2019.