BOSTON—Senior Trevor Arico (Ann Arbor, Mich.) scored a game-high 19 points and Emerson College rallied from a seven-point deficit with less than 10 minutes to play to defeat visiting Babson College, 64-62, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's basketball action on Wednesday night inside Brown & Plofker Gymnasium. 

Babson, which had won two straight games, slips to 3-4 overall and 0-1 in league play with the loss. Emerson has been victorious in three straight outings to improve to 5-2 overall and 1-0 in the NEWMAC. 

First-year Timmy Mulvey (Reading, Mass.) scored 16 points and dished out three assists, while graduate student Felix Kloman (Ipswich, Mass.) finished with 16 points and seven rebounds to pace the Beavers. Senior Nate Amado (Hanson, Mass.) scored 15 points to go along with seven boards and two blocks and junior Tyler Lauder (Malvern, Pa.) tied for team-high honors with seven rebounds in the loss. 

Junior Jacob Armant (Arlington, Texas) scored 14 points and handed out a game-high five assists, while sophomore Guillermo Gasset Ruiz (Malaga, Spain) added 13 points on 6-o-f11 shooting for the Lions. Junior Linus Helmhold (Krefeld, Germany) led all players with nine rebounds and also chipped in with five points and three assists in the victory. 

The opening eight minutes of the second half featured four ties and four lead changes before the Green and White went on an 9-2 spurt that included a three-pointer by Mulvey and four points by Kloman to forge its largest lead of the game at 52-45 with 9:53 remaining. Emerson answered right back though, getting 14 points from the trio Armant, Arico and Gasset Ruiz during a 16-6 run that spanned the next six-plus minutes to go back in front for good. 

The Beavers cut their deficit to 61-58 on a jumper by Mulvey with 3:11 to play but followed it up with three straight empty trips before getting a free throw from Amado to get back within three with 36 seconds left. Kloman knocked down a triple from the left wing after senior Lucas Brenner (Miami, Fla.) went 1-of-2 at the free throw line to make it 63-62 with 11 seconds to play, and then fouled Armant following a timeout. He went 1-of-2 at the charity stripe but the Lions survived when the Beavers turned the ball over after calling timeout with 4.2 seconds remaining. 

Down as many as 10 with 7:05 to go in the first half, the Green and White closed with a 15-6 run to pull within one at the break. Mulvey started the spurt with a three-pointer, Amado added four points and five different players scored as Babson went 6-of-8 at the free throw line over the final two minutes of the stanza to cut its deficit to 30-29 heading into the locker room. 

The Beavers shot a season-worst 32.1 percent while getting outrebounded 42-35. The Lions shot 41.5 percent and outscored the Green and White 26-12 in the paint. 

Both teams return to action on Saturday at 1 p.m. as Babson hosts No. 11 WPI, while Emerson travels to Coast Guard. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers now 32-7 all-time against Emerson but have dropped two straight games in the series. 
•    Six of the last nine games between the teams have been decided by five points or less or in overtime and Babson is just 2-3 on the road against the Lions since 2022.
•    The Green and White has now allowed 68 points or fewer in 10 of its last 11 games against NEWMAC foes going back to last January. 
•    Three of the Beavers four losses this winter have come by five points or less.