No. 11/9 Men's Lacrosse at Clark
Saturday, April 20 | 3:00 p.m.
Granger Athletic Complex | Worcester, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson is 24-3 all-time against Clark in a series that dates back to 1994.
• The Beavers have won three in a row in the series since 2021 but the Cougars captured three out of four from 2017-19, including a pair of one-goal games in 2019.
• Five of the seven games from 2014-19 were decided by a single goal, two of which ended in overtime.

LAST MEETING
• Chi Chi Price '23 scored a career-high six goals and Will Spangenberg '23M added four goals and two assists as Babson rolled to a 24-11 win over visiting Clark on March 25, 2023, at MacDowell Field.
• Ryan Kenney '23M and Matt Stucchi '23 both scored three times, seniors Christian Brofft and Jacob Tauss chipped in with two goals apiece and sophomore Bennett Smith scored once and led all players with three assists for the Beavers. Senior Grey Sunderland won 18-of-25 face-offs and scooped up a season-high 11 ground balls, while Hayden Bean '23 forced three turnovers and Will Parducci '23 made five saves in 49 minutes of action in the victory.
• Benjamin Hollerbach '23M had four goals, senior Patrick Liddy scored twice and classmate Colin Howard added a goal and two assists to pace the Cougars. Mark Zito '23M collected nine ground balls and won 14-of-33 face-offs, while Ryan Mickelson '23M stopped 14 shots in the loss.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 11 USILA/No. 9 USA Lacrosse Babson (11-3, 5-0 NEWMAC) is looking to bounce back after having its 10-game winning streak snapped at No. 4/4 Tufts, 17-11, on Tuesday in Medford.
• Graduate student Jared Rainville notched three goals and an assist and senior Connor Karsh scored three times to lead the Beavers. First-year Luke Wang scored two goals and scooped up a team-high five ground balls, Tauss added a goal and an assist, and junior Alex Fascilla made 19 saves in goal, his second-most in a game this season.
• Rainville (52-16-68) leads the NEWMAC in goals and points, senior Topher Bower (13-31-44) and Smith (10-28-38) are second and third in the league in assists, and first-year Seamus Rooney (31-11-42) is tied for fifth in goals. Graduate student James Turco leads the NEWMAC in face-off winning percentage (.617) and senior Grey Sunderland is third at .603.
• Seniors Brendan Maher (14) and Dillon Quinn (13) and graduate student Chip Quinn (12) are the team leaders in caused turnovers. Fascilla (8.82 GAA, .618 sv. pct) tops the conference in both goals against average and save percentage, and ranks 11th in Division III in save percentage and 25th in GAA.

SCOUTING THE COUGARS
• Clark (4-9, 1-4 NEWMAC) is coming off an 8-7 victory over Wheaton on Saturday in Worcester, snapping a five-game losing streak.
• Senior Patrick Liddy scored two goals to spark a four-goal fourth-quarter rally in the victory. Classmate Matthew Minkwitz finished with three goals, junior Mason Kaufmann added a pair, and senior Colin Howard contributed a goal and an assist. Sophomore Patrick O'Rourke won 13-of-17 face-offs and collected 12 ground balls, sophomore Lucas Cuda caused three turnovers and grabbed three ground balls, and graduate student Dylan Harloff made 13 saves in the win.
• Minkwitz (26-15-41) tops the Cougars in scoring while junior Matt Wells (18-11-29), Howard (17-11-28) and Liddy (17-6-23) are solid goal scorers and senior Attilio LaVecchia (8-16-24) leads the team in assists. First-year Huy Doan has won 77-of-171 face-offs (.450) and O'Rourke has won 53-of-95 (.558).
• Cuda has a team-high 21 caused turnovers, and Harloff (11.59 GAA, .560 sv. pct) has started 11 of the 13 games and ranks third in the NEWMAC in save percentage.

CHECKING THE NEWMAC STANDINGS
• Babson (5-0) has clinched at least a tie for the regular season crown and the top seed in the conference tournament and can win it outright with a victory in one of its two remaining games.
• There is a four-way tie for second place between Wheaton, Salve Regina, MIT and Springfield, all with 3-2 conference records. They will likely comprise the remaining four spots in the tournament with the final two games sorting out the seeds. Emerson, Clark and Coast Guard are tied for sixth, all at 1-4.

NEWMAC POWERHOUSE
• The Green and White have won 11 straight NEWMAC regular season games going back to last season and are 17-3 against conference foes in since the start of the 2021 campaign.
• Babson has won two of the last three conference tournament titles.

NCAA LEADERS
• Babson ranks fifth in Division III in man-up offense, converting 54.8 percent with a man advantage.
• The Green and White are 32nd in face-off percentage, winning at a .607 clip, and 18th in clearing percentage (.878).
• The Beavers are 25th in scoring offense (15.14) and 24th in scoring margin (+5.71).

IN THE RECORD BOOKS
• With 52 goals, Rainville is just the third player in program history to score 50 goals in a season. He trails Josh Shaffer (71 goals in 1995) and Chi Chi Price (65 goals in 2023) on Babson's single-season goal scoring list.
• Rainville's 68 points also ranks tied for fifth on the single-season list, and is five points shy of fourth place PJ Yeatman (73 in 1991).
• Bower's 31 assists is tied for eighth with Jay Conroy (1979) and Josh Shaffer (1995) on the single-season assist chart. Bower is also eighth on the career assist list with 62 helpers.
• Fascilla is tied for fourth on the single-season list with 10 victories, trailing only Will Parducci (13 in 2023), John Schmidt (12 in 1997) and Adam Daroff (11 in 2014).

BEAVER BITES
• Rainville has produced points in 42 consecutive games and goals in 41 straight dating back to his career at Connecticut College.
• Bower has an 18-game point streak dating back to last season.
• Dillon Quinn has scooped up at least one ground ball in all 14 games this season and 25 of his last 26 games going back to last year.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• Babson is 6-0 at home this season and 13-2 at MacDowell Field since the start of last spring.
• The Beavers are 11-0 this season and 36-2 since the start of the 2020 season when leading at halftime.
• The Green and White are 7-0 this spring and 34-3 going back to the start of 2018 when holding the opponents to eight goals or less.
• Babson is 10-1 this year and 19-3 since the start of last season when winning at least 50 percent of the faceoffs, and 18-1 since last year when winning more ground balls than the opponents.

UP NEXT
• The Beavers wrap up the regular season next Saturday against Coast Guard at 1 p.m. at MacDowell Field.