Baseball vs. Keene State
Monday, March 18 | 3:30 p.m.
Govoni Field | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 8-7 all-time against Keene State in a series that dates back to 2004. 
•    The Beavers have won four straight games against the Owls going back to 2015 although Monday's matchup will be the first between the squads since 2019. 
•    All but three of the games between Babson and Keene State have been played at Govoni Field.

LAST MEETING
•    Sean Harrington '20 went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored and Tyler Bell '21 tossed eight shutout innings to help the Beavers defeat Keene State, 5-0, on April 25, 2019, in Babson Park. 
•    Bell struck out six and allowed just four hits on the mound, Connor Gill '19 singled twice and scored a run and Zack Sette reached base three times and drove in a pair of runs for Babson. 
•    Sam Czel went 2-for-4 with a triple for the Owls. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (4-6) wrapped up its spring break trip to Florida with a 12-2 win over Pitt-Bradford last Thursday. 
•    Junior Justin Guest and first-year Alexander Wilson both homered an finished with two hits apiece, senior Ike Kiely, classmate Luca Rubin and junior Walter Sadowsky all drove in two runs, and first-year Jason Finklestein struck out seven over 6.0 innings to earn his first career win for the Beavers. 
•    Senior Brant Savage is batting .372 with five doubles, four homers, 12 RBI and 12 runs scored, classmate Tanner Santos is hitting .342 with three doubles, 12 RBI and 14 runs scored, and graduate student Luke Tanner enters the day with a .300 average to go along with one double, one home run and 10 runs batted in. 
•    Graduate student Greg Nieskens is 1-1 with a 4.20 ERA in three starts, sophomore James Clark is 1-1 with 10 strikeouts in 8.1 innings and the duo of senior Jimmy Weick (0-1, 1.80 ERA) and graduate student Zach Magee (1 save, 3.00 ERA) have both made four appearances out of the bullpen. 

SCOUTING THE OWLS
•    Keene State (4-8) has dropped three straight games after suffering a 22-4 loss at Rensselaer on Sunday afternoon. 
•    Hamilton Barnes singled and drove in two runs and Ethan Rainha doubled in his only at-bat of the game for the Engineers, who got hits from eight different players and led 2-0 in the first inning before allowing nine runs over the next four frames. 
•    Tommy Ahlers is batting .380 with six doubles, two triples, a home run and 15 runs batted in, Brendan Eaton is hitting .375 with two doubles, three triples, 12 RBI and 10 runs scored, and Shea Zina checks in with a .353 average to go along with three home runs and eight RBI. 
•    Dylan Ellison is 1-0 with a 4.22 ERA in 10.2 innings pitched, Daniel Cantafi (0-0, 5.19 ERA) has pitched 8.2 innings in four relief appearances and Zina (1-0, 2.45 ERA) owns a 0.82 WHIP and six strikeouts in 7.1 innings this spring. 

HOT AT THE PLATE
•    First-year Dante D'Avanzo (4-for-6, 2B, 2 RBI, 4 R) and Guest (4-for-9, HR, 4 RBI) both recorded a pair of multi-hit games in two starts last week. 
•   Sadowsky batted .444 (4-for-9) with a double, three RBI and seven runs scored in three starts in Fort Myers, while Savage hit .357 (5-for-14) with a homer, two doubles and five RBI. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Savage and Santos have reached base in 13 and 12 consecutive games, respectively, while sophomore Ryan Hvozdovic has reached base in eight straight starts. 
•    Sadowsky and graduate student John Nowak have reached safely in each of their last five starts, while the trio of Julian, Wilson and D'Avanzo all have a hit in their last four games. 

HOME SWEET HOME
•    The Green and White went 12-4 at Govoni Field last season and boasts a .781 winning percentage (25-7) at home going back to the start of the 2022 campaign. 

WHAT'S NEXT?
•    In addition to its seven-run, two-out rally to erase a 4-0 deficit in the bottom of the seventh inning back in 2016 versus Keene State, Babson recorded its last no-hitter in a 2015 win against the Owls.
•    Nick Malatos '15 left with the bases loaded in the fifth and John Floegel '18 came on and needed just one pitch to escape the jam as the Beavers turned a 9-3-6 triple play to close out a 5-1 victory that was called due to rain after five innings.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers have scored at least six runs in eight of their first 10 outings and are putting 9.3 runs per game.
•    Babson has finished with 10 or more hits in five straight games going back to its win over North Central (Ill.) on March 10. 
•    The Green and White is 4-1 when leading after six innings this spring. 
•    Babson is 1-1 this season and 6-8 since the start of last year in games decided by one or two runs. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Salem State for a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 12 p.m.