BABSON PARK, Mass.—Junior Luke McClintock (South Hamilton, Mass.) and three relievers combined on a one-hit shutout to lift Babson College to a 2-0 win over visiting Suffolk University in non-conference baseball action on Wednesday afternoon at Govoni Field. 

Babson, which won its fourth straight games, improves to 7-6 on the year. Suffolk has dropped its last two outings to fall to 11-6 overall. 

Sophomore Ryan Hvozdovic (Hillsborough, N.J.) contributed an RBI single in support of McClintock, who struck out four and allowed just one hit over 6.0 innings to improve to 1-1 on the season with the win for the Beavers. Graduate student John Nowak (Pelham, N.Y.) singled and scored and sophomore Zander Teator (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) picked up his first career save with a perfect ninth inning. 

Graduate student Brent Bucklin (Lynn, Mass.) was terrific in defeat for the Rams striking out five and allowing just one earned run on five hits over 7.0 innings. 

Nowak led off the bottom of the second with a single to left, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by junior Walter Sadowsky (Morristown, N.J.) and scored on Hvozdovic's two-out single to shallow left to give the Green and White a 1-0 lead. Suffolk stranded a pair of runners on base in the top of the third and the Beavers took advantage of two errors by the visitors to tack on another run. 

Senior Jack Julian (Manchester, Mass.) reached on a throwing error by Bucklin and scored from third two batters later when Suffolk junior Harry Painter (Essex, Mass.) misplayed Babson graduate student Luke Tanner's (Los Angeles, Calif.) hot shot to third with the infield in to make it 2-0. The Rams cut down Tanner at the plate on senior Brant Savage's (Charlton, Mass.) to keep the margin at two but were unable to get their offense going. 

McClintock retired the first seven batters he faced and had carried a no-hitter into the sixth before senior Garret Roberts (Stratham, N.H.) stroked a one-out single to center. Junior Matt Milone (Amston, Conn.) got an inning-ending double play in the seventh and graduate student Zach Magee (Indianapolis, Ind.) worked around a pair of walks with another double play in the eighth before Teator recorded a pair of strikeouts to close the door in the ninth. 

Babson returns to action on Thursday when it travels to Roger Williams at 3:30 p.m., while Suffolk visits Brandeis on Friday at 3:30 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are now 27-18 all-time against Suffolk and have won two straight in the series. 
•    Wednesday's one-hitter was the first by the Babson pitching staff since April 5, 2017, when Michael Genaro '19 tossed came within two outs of a no-hitter in an 8-0 win over Coast Guard. 
•    The shutout is the first of the season for Babson and its first since April 26 of last year when sophomore James Clark (Southborough, Mass.) and McClintock combined to blank UMass Boston 6-0. 
•    The Beavers are now 3-1 this spring in games decided by one or two runs.