No. 14/9 Men's Lacrosse vs. UMass Boston
Tuesday, April 2 | 7 p.m.
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 16-3 all-time against UMass Boston in a series that dates back to 1978.
•    The Beavers have won eight straight games and 15 of the last 16 matchups against the Beacons. 
•    The teams will meet for the third straight season on Tuesday and just the fifth time since 2003. 

LAST MEETING
•    Chi Chi Price '23 scored six times, Matt Stucchi '23 dished out five assists and Will Parducci '23 made 24 saves to help Babson defeat the Beacons, 23-12, on April 4, 2023, in Boston. 
•    Sophomore Bennett Smith contributed four points (3g, 1a), senior Dillon Quinn had two caused turnovers and classmate Sammy Kalishman scooped up five ground balls for the Beavers, who scored the final three goals of the third quarter and outscored the hosts 8-1 to start the fourth. 
•    Connor Smith had three goals and one assist, Luke Murphy scored twice and Jason McNeany won 15-of-22 face-offs and scooped up four ground balls for UMass Boston. 
 
SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 14 USILA/No. 9 USA Lacrosse Babson (8-2) has won seven consecutive games after cruising past Wheaton, 20-6, on Saturday. 
•    Junior Max Mallett finished with career highs of four goals and six points and graduate student Jared Rainville, senior Connor Karsh and first-year Camden Matthews all scored twice for the Beavers, who fell behind 2-0 before responding with 17 of the next 18 goals. 
•    Rainville (33-10-43) has recorded four straight multi-goal games, first-year Seamus Rooney (26-9-35) is tied for the team lead with four man-up goals, senior Topher Bower (13-17-30) is riding a 14-game points streak and Smith (4-21-25) leads the team in assists. 
•    Graduate student James Turco and senior Grey Sunderland have combined to win 60.2 percent of their face-offs, Dillon Quinn leads the defense with 26 ground balls and nine caused turnovers, and junior Alex Fascilla is 7-0 as a starter and ranks 21st in Division III in goals against average (8.48) and 15th in save percentage (.620). 

SCOUTING THE BEACONS
•    UMass Boston (8-2) has won four straight games and is coming off an 11-9 victory over Plymouth State on Saturday. 
•    Sean Daley and Greg Wolff combined for five goals and four assists, Patrick Carey finished with four caused turnovers and four ground balls and James Boldy made 16 saves for the Beacons, who trailed 6-5 late in the second quarter. 
•    Daly (33-15-48) has scored three or more goals seven times in 10 contests, Wolff (26-3-29) has produced five straight multi-goal games and Luke Murphy (13-16-29) has at least one point in every outing this season. 
•    Matt Lucozzi has won 55.8 percent of his face-offs and scooped up 59 ground balls, Casey leads the defense with 25 caused turnovers and 59 ground balls and Boldy has posted an 11.80 goals against average and a .505 save percentage in 10 starts. 

FASCILLA EARNS CONFERENCE RECOGNITION
•    Fascilla made a career-high 21 saves in Tuesday's 13-6 win over Bowdoin and followed it up with 11 stops in Saturday's victory to earn NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week honors for the second time this season on Monday. 
•    He finished the week with a 5.73 goals against average and a .744 save percentage and is now 7-2 on the year. 

FLEXING ITS FACE-OFF MUSCLE
•    Four different players combined to win 24-of-29 face-offs in Saturday's rout of Wheaton. 
•    Sunderland went 9-of-10 and led all players with six ground balls, while Turco was 7-of-10 and collected five ground balls. 
•    Junior Jared Lucich won 4-of-5 face-offs and scooped up two ground balls in his second appearance of the spring and sophomore Will Reading was a perfect 4-of-4 on the day. 
•    The Beavers have won 60.3 percent of their face-offs this season, which ranks 35th in Division III. 

BALANCED BEAVERS
•    The Green and White got goals from 14 different players and at least one point from 18 different guys in the victory at Wheaton. 
•    Juniors Riley Shaw and Matt Park, sophomore Jackson Simon and first-year Bruno Batty all scored their first goals of the season, while seniors Ben Wildman and James O'Brien each recorded an assist for their first career points. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Babson's current seven-game winning streak its longest since 2016 when it won consecutive games from April 6-May 4 before falling to Springfield in the NEWMAC Tournament final. 
•    The Beavers have held three consecutive opponents to eight goals or fewer. 
•    Rainville has a goal in 38 straight games, Smith has an assist in 18 consecutive outings and Bower, who surpassed 100 career points on Saturday at Wheaton, enters Tuesday's contest with at least one point in 14 straight games. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 4-0 this season and have won their last eight games at home going back to last year. 
•    Babson is 8-0 on the year and has won 32 straight games when carrying a lead into the fourth quarter. 
•    The Green and White is 23-1 going back to the start of 2022 when scoring at least 14 goals. 
•    Babson is 7-1 this season when finishing with at least eight caused turnovers. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers host Emerson on Saturday at 4 p.m.