Women's Lacrosse vs. Smith | Saturday, March 23 | 1 p.m. 
Women's Lacrosse vs. No. 13 Trinity | Sunday, March 24| 2 p.m. 
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    After playing back-to-back road games, Babson returns home to face Smith in a NEWMAC contest on Saturday before hosting No. 13 Trinity in non-conference action on Sunday afternoon at MacDowell Field. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. Smith
•    Babson is 26-13 all-time against the Pioneers in a series that dates back to 1987.
•    The Beavers have won 20 consecutive games against Smith going back to 2001 by an average of more than 11 goals per game. 

vs. Trinity
•    The Beavers are 2-6 all-time versus the Bantams in a series that dates back to 2002. 
•    Babson has dropped the last three games in the series since defeating Trinity in the opening round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament, 19-10, in Hartford, Conn. 
•    Sunday's game will be the first between the teams in Babson Park since 20005. 

LAST MEETING VS. SMITH
•    Emily Curtis M'23 finished with seven goals and three assists for 10 points, while junior Clare Connolly recorded a career-high 23 draw controls as Babson defeated Smith, 21-12, on April 26, 2023, in Northampton, Mass. 
•    Claudia Dodge '23 tallied four goals and three assists, Erin Jayne '23 scored four times and senior Nicole Darveau and junior Jessica Evans each scored for the Beavers, who raced out to an 8-3 lead early in the second quarter. 
•    Gio Arancio had four goals and Sadie Tschider and Jennie Arancio both finished with three goals and one assist for the Pioneers, who got a combined 15 saves from Brooke Testa and Shanon Houtenville in the loss. 

LAST MEETING VS. TRINITY
•    Molly McGuckin finished with four goals and two assists and Caroline Lampert scored four times as Trinity defeated Babson, 18-10, on March 28, 2023, in Hartford, Conn. 
•    Emily Curtis finished with two goals and three assists and Erin Jayne added three goals and one assist for the Beavers, who got nine saves from junior goalkeeper Kathleen Murphy. 
•    Current Babson graduate student Lily Ives had two goals and three assists for the Bantams, who raced out to an 8-3 first-quarter lead.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (3-1, 1-0 NEWMAC) has won two straight games after rallying for a 13-10 victory at Coast Guard in its NEWMAC opener last Saturday. 
•    Junior Amelia Novitch (3g,2a) totaled five points, Connolly scored twice and recorded 12 draw controls, and graduate student Anna Costello and senior Genevieve Bushey both finished with five caused turnovers for the Beavers, who trailed 6-1 late in the first quarter. 
•    Novitch (11-4-15) leads the team with four free-position goals, graduate student Lily Ives (11-2-13) has three multi-goal games this spring and Evans (9-2-11) has contributed eight points over the last two contests. 
•    Connolly (6-1-7) leads the team with 30 draw controls, while senior Zoë Michaud (10 CT), Costello (9 GB, 8 CT) and senior Eileen Manning (11 GB, 8 CT) lead the defense in front of junior Kathleen Murphy, who has posted an 11.58 goals against average and a .438 save percentage in four starts. 

SCOUTING THE PIONEERS
•    Smith (4-4, 1-0 NEWMAC ) had its two-game winning streak snapped in a 10-7 loss to Nazareth last Sunday. 
•    Tschider scored four times and Jennie Arancio contributed four ground balls, three caused turnovers and two draw controls for the Pioneers, who finished with a 29-20 edge in shots on goal in the loss. 
•    Tschider (12-9-21) leads team in assists and has scored three free-position goals, Kyra Hawk (15-5-20) has produced four multi-goal games and Caroline Sanders (13-7-20) leads the team with 32 ground balls. 
•    Jennie Arancio leads the team with 26 ground balls and 18 caused turnover, Isabelle Elder has contributed 14 ground balls and 14 caused turnovers and Houtenville owns a 13.66 goals against average and a .418 save percentage in five starts. 

SCOUTING THE BANTAMS
•    No. 13 Trinity (4-1), which travels to Williams on Friday, has won its last three games after defeating Springfield, 10-9, on Wednesday night. 
•    Casey Ward scored four times, Molly McGuckin had three goals and Natalie Miller finished with a goal and three assists for the Bantams, who took the lead for good thanks to a four-goal run that spanned the third and fourth quarters. 
•    McGuckin (18-1-19) has scored three or more goals in five straight games to start the year, Brooke Kurtz (4-14-18) leads the team in assists and Miller (8-4-12) has scored a pair of free-position goals. 
•    Ward (7-4-11) and Caitlyn Buermann (4-0-4) have combined to win 35 draws, Samantha Hark leads the team with seven caused turnovers and Ali Macdougall has posted a 10.52 goals against average and a .395 save percentage in five starts. 

OLD FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE
•    Sunday's contest will be a reunion of sorts for Ives and Costello, who enjoyed plenty of success at Trinity before transferring to Babson. 
•    Ives totaled 106 goals and 33 assists for 139 points in 44 games from 2020-23, while Costello started all 34 games of her Bantams' career picking up 58 ground balls and recording 69 caused turnovers. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Ives, who did not play in last Saturday's win at Coast Guard, has scored at least one goal in 44 straight contests going back to her time at Trinity.
•    Evans has scored in 10 consecutive games dating back to last year, while Blake owns a six-game scoring streak.
•    Manning has recorded at least one caused turnover in six straight outings and 12 of the Beavers' last 13 contests going back to last year.

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    After recording a season-high 12 draw controls at Coast Guard, Connolly has 341 for her career and is just 13 shy of the program's all-time record of 354 set by Trisha Babson '12 from 2009-12. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers have won their last 10 games against NEWMAC foes going back to last season.
•    Babson is 3-0 this spring and 58-3 going back to 2018 when scoring at least 12 goals.
•    The Green and White is 3-0 this season when carrying a lead into the fourth quarter. 
•    Babson is 2-0 on the year and has won nine of its last 11 games dating back to last season when finishing with at least 10 caused turnovers. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers host Mount Holyoke on Wednesday at 7 p.m.