No. 19 Men's Lacrosse vs. Springfield
Saturday, March 16 | 1:00 p.m.
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson and Springfield will meet for the 40th time on Saturday in a series that dates back to the late 1970s.
• The Green and White have won four of the last six games against Springfield since 2018 but are just 7-32 all-time against the Pride.
• The Beavers have captured two of the last three meetings vs. Springfield at MacDowell Field.

LAST MEETING
• Will Spangenberg '23M finished with three goals and four assists for seven points and Will Parducci '23 made a career-high 19 saves to help No. 20 Babson defeat Springfield, 15-9, on April 1, 2023 at Stagg Field.
• Ryan Kenney '23M and sophomore Bennett Smith both contributed three goals and one assist, while Chi Chi Price '23 and senior Jacob Tauss added two goals apiece for the Beavers. Fellow senior Grey Sunderland won 10-of-17 face-offs and scooped up eight ground balls in the victory.
• Conor Tracy '23M and graduate students Kevin Tierney and Mason Nocito each scored three times for the Pride. Fellow grad student Steven Betsch won 13-of-26 face-offs and collected eight ground balls, classmate Jackson Lane led all players with nine ground balls and the duo of junior Dean Pesce and senior Jack Hamilton combined to make 12 saves in the loss.

ONE LOVE GAME
• The two teams will be raising money and awareness for the One Love Foundation at Saturday's game in honor of Yeardley Love, a University of Virigina women's lacrosse player who was tragically killed by her ex-boyfriend on May 3, 2010.
• The organization is a national non-profit with the goal of ending relationship abuse. It empowers young people with the tools and resources they need to see the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships and bring life-saving prevention education to their communities.
• The match-up is also the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) opener for both schools.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 19 Babson (4-2, 0-0 NEWMAC) extended its winning streak to three games with an 8-6 victory over No. 6/5 Middlebury on Sunday at MacDowell Field.
• Junior Alex Fascilla made a career-high 16 saves and a Babson defense limited Middlebury to just two second-half goals. Seniors Dillon Quinn and Brendan Maher and graduate student Chip Quinn helped keep the Panthers off the scoreboard for a stretch of more than 20 minutes, while first-year Seamus Rooney scored two of his game-high three goals in the fourth quarter and senior Topher Bower finished with a goal and two assists.
• Graduate student Jared Rainville (21-7-28) and Rooney (21-6-27) are tied for second in the NEWMAC in goals and rank in the top five in points. Bower (7-12-19) is tied for second in the league in assists and senior Jacob Tauss (11-4-15) is third on the team in goals. Graduate student James Turco has won 52-of-88 face-offs (.591) and Sunderland has been good on 31-of-57 (.544) and they have combined for 37 ground balls.
• Junior Gavin Bailey (8), Maher (6) and first-year Bruno Batty (5) are the team leaders in caused turnovers. Fascilla (8.79 GAA, .608 sv. pct) has recorded double-digit saves in four straight games.

SCOUTING THE PRIDE
• Springfield (0-5, 0-0 NEWMAC) is looking for its first win after falling to Endicott, 15-7, last Saturday in Beverly, Mass. The previous three setbacks came at the hands of nationally ranked teams.
• Sophomore Brady Soldo netted a hat trick, while Tierney totaled three assists and Nocito added a goal and two helpers. Junior Kaden Quirk made 15 saves in goal as Springfield was outshot by a 54-30 margin and outscored 9-1 in the second half.
• Nocito (9-9-18) leads the team in assists and points and first-year Jake Degnan (10-0-10) is the team leader in goals, including four man-up strikes. Tierney (3-8-11) is also an offensive threat. Junior Vincent Scialdone has won 50 percent of his faceoffs (42-of-84) and leads the team with 27 ground balls.
• Graduate student Connor Roberts (11) and senior Gavin Carzello (9) lead the Pride in caused turnovers. Quirk (13.48 GAA, .504 sv. pct) has started all five games in goal and made at least 12 saves in four contests.

WEEKLY HONORS
• Babson swept the NEWMAC weekly awards on Monday as Rooney and Fascilla were named Offensive and Defensive Athletes of the Week, respectively.
• Rooney piled up 12 points in a 3-0 week with nine goals and three assists, scoring three times in all three outings. Fascilla went 3-0 with a 7.67 goals against average and a .635 save percentage, totaling 40 saves on the week.

NEWMAC OUTLOOK
• Defending champion Babson was picked to repeat its NEWMAC title in the coaches' preseason poll announced before the season.
• Springfield, which finished second in the regular season last year before losing to MIT in the tournament semifinals, was picked to finish third in this year's poll.

HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE
• Babson has started off 2-0 at MacDowell Field this season and is 9-2 at home since the beginning of last season.
• The Green and White are 14-7 on home turf since the start of the 2021 season and 26-15 going back to 2018.

BEAVER BITES
• Rainville has produced points in 34 consecutive games and goals in 33 straight dating back to his career at Connecticut College.
• Smith has a 14-game point streak dating back to last season, and Bower and Tauss have points in 10 straight.
• Dillon Quinn has scooped up at least one ground ball in 17 of his last 18 games going back to last year.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• The Beavers are 29-2 since the start of the 2020 season when leading at halftime.
• The Green and White are 29-3 going back to the start of 2018 when holding the opponents to eight goals or less.
• Babson is 12-3 since the start of last season when winning at least 50 percent of the faceoffs and 11-1 when winning more ground balls than the opponents.

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will play conference rival MIT next Saturday in Cambridge at 1 p.m. in a rematch of last year's NEWMAC championship game.