Baseball vs. Lasell | Tuesday, April 16 | 3:30 p.m. 
vs. Tufts | Wednesday, April 17 | 3:30 p.m. 
Govoni Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    Babson kicks off a busy week that includes six games in six days by hosting Lasell on Tuesday and Tufts on Wednesday at Govoni Field. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. Lasell
•    First meeting

vs. Tufts
•    Babson is 7-33 all-time against the Jumbos in a series that dates back to the 1977 campaign. 
•    Wednesday's matchup marks just the second time the programs have met since 2009 after playing every season between 1977-2009 with the exception of 1990. 

LAST MEETING
vs. Tufts
•    Gavin Brown struck out six over five shutout innings and three different players drove in a run as Tufts defeated Babson, 4-2, on April 19, 2023, in Medford, Mass.
•    Connor Bowman was 2-for-4 with a solo homer, Jimmy Evans went 2-for-3 with an RBI double and Brown and four relievers combined to record 12 strikeouts for the Jumbos.
•    Patrick Manning '23 was 2-for-4 with a triple and a run scored, while sophomore Chris Basile singled twice and drove in a run for the Beavers, who left 10 men on base in the loss. 
 
SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (14-8) has dropped its last two outings on the heels of an 11-game winning streak and suffered an 8-5 setback in game two of Sunday's doubleheader at No. 6 Salve Regina. 
•    Junior Justin Guest went 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, senior Jack Julian knocked in a pair of runs and classmate Tanner Santos went 2-for-4 with a stolen base for the Beavers, who go the potential game-tying run to the plate in the top of the ninth. 
•    Senior Brant Savage is batting .389 with 13 doubles, five homers, 22 RBI and 20 runs scored, Guest is hitting .375 with six doubles, two home runs, 15 RBI and 18 runs scored and Santos boasts a .490 on-base percentage to go along with a .367 average, six doubles, 19 RBI, 14 stolen bases and 25 runs scored. 
•    First-year Jason Finkelstein is 4-1 with a 5.03 ERA and 34 strikeouts in 34.0 innings, junior Luke McClintock is 1-1 with a 2.77 earned run average in seven appearances and senior Jimmy Weick (0-1, 0.96 ERA) is holding opposing hitters to a .167 average in nine relief appearances. 

SCOUTING THE LASERS
•    Lasell (19-10) has split its last six games and is coming off an 11-4 six-inning loss at Norwich on Sunday. 
•    Tyler DiNezza went 2-for-3 with with an RBI and Thomas Muizulis homered and drove in two runs for the Lasers, who got eight combined strikeouts from five different pitchers in the loss. 
•    Scott Lyon is batting .376 with 14 extra-base hits, 25 RBI and 25 runs scored, Tim Callahan is hitting .349 with 10 extra-base hits, 24 RBI and 33 runs scored, and Brad Edwards enters the week with a .340 average to go along with eight doubles, two homers and a team-high 30 runs batted in.
•    Junior Adam Marsh is 4-0 with two saves and a 2.16 ERA in 41.2 innings pitched, Matthew Fletcher is 3-3 with a 3.13 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 37.1 innings, and Zackary Simone has gone 3-1 with a 3.45 earned runs average in 28.2 innings of work this spring. 

SCOUTING THE JUMBOS
•    Tufts (13-13) has dropped four straight games after suffering a 7-3 loss at Bowdoin on Sunday. 
•    Malcolm Whitfield had a two-run single in the first inning and Henry Fleckner added an RBI knock in the second to give the Jumbos a 3-0 lead before the Polar Bears stormed back with seven unanswered runs. 
•    Malachi Pena is batting .364 with nine doubles, three homers and 27 runs batted in, Fleckner is hitting .354 with five doubles, three home runs, 21 RBI and 22 runs scored, and Jesse McCullough owns a .333 average to go along with six extra-base hits, 15 RBI and 19 runs scored on the year. 
•    Jacob Lapp is 2-2 with a 4.60 ERA in 15.1 innings pitched, Michael O'Brien has made four starts and is 1-2 with a 5.27 earned run average, and Hunter Beindorff (1-0, 3.86 ERA) has pitched 11.2 innings and is tied for the team lead with nine appearances on the year. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Junior Walter Sadowsky is riding a six-game hitting streak, while graduate student John Nowak has reached base safely in 11 consecutive starts. 
•    Julian has scored at least one run in 12 of the last 14 games. 
•    Weick has not allowed a run while giving up just one hit over his last five relief appearances dating back to March 18. 
•    Santos, who had five knocks at Salve Regina on Sunday, is tied with Savage for the team lead with 10 multi-hit games. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 9-0 this season and 34-7 at home going back to the start of 2022 at Govoni Field. 
•    Babson is 11-0 this spring when allowing five runs or fewer. 
•    The Green and White is 11-1 when leading after six innings on the year. 
•    Babson is 4-1 in games decided by one or two runs. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to UMass Dartmouth on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.