Baseball vs. UMass Boston | Wednesday, April 24 | 3:30 p.m. 
vs. Johnson & Wales | Thursday, April 25 | 3:30 p.m. 
Govoni Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    Babson wraps up its five-game homestand when it hosts UMass Boston on Wednesday and Johnson & Wales on Thursday at Govoni Field. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. UMass Boston
•    Babson is 25-13 all-time against the Beacons in a series that dates back to 1982. 
•    The Beavers have won two straight games against UMass Boston going back to 2019 after dropping six consecutive games in the series from 2015-18. 

vs. Johnson & Wales 
•    Babson is 7-2 all-time against the Wildcats in a series that dates back to 2006. 
•    The teams have split their last four meetings going back to 2012, with the Beavers and Johnson & Wales winning at home over the last two seasons. 
•    Weather has wreaked havoc on the series over the last decade with four scheduled matchups canceled between 2013-17. 

LAST MEETING
vs. UMass Boston
•    Sophomore James Clark struck out five over 7.0 shutout innings and senior Brant Savage went 3-for-3 with a double, two walks and an RBI to help Babson defeat the Beacons, 6-0, on April 26, 2023, in Boston. 
•    Sophomore Chris Basile went 2-for-5 with an RBI and Jackson Kelly '23, junior Justin Guest and sophomore Ryan Hvozdovic each drove in a run for the Beavers, who put the game away with four runs over the final three innings. 
•    Luke Leavitt was 2-for-3 with a double and two stolen bases for UMass Boston, which was limited to just three hits. 

vs. Johnson & Wales 
•    Xavier Bothelo and Riley Hasson both went 3-for-4 with two RBI to help the Wildcats defeat Babson, 9-0, on April 24, 2023, in Providence, R.I.
•    Miles Kelly hit a two-run homer and scored three times and five pitchers combined on a one-hit shutout for Johnson & Wales. 
•    Jack Pirkl '22 M'23 singled with one out in the fifth and had a stolen base for the Beavers, who walked nine times and left nine on base in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (18-9) has won its last two games after edging Wheaton, 6-4, on Tuesday afternoon. 
•    Graduate student Luke Tanner went 2-for-5 with a double, a homer, two RBI and two runs scored, and classmate John Nowak singled twice and knocked in a pair of runs for the Beavers, who jumped out to an early 4-0 lead. 
•    Savage is batting .360 with 16 doubles, five homers, 27 RBI and 22 runs scored, senior Tanner Santos is hitting .347 with eight extra-base hits, 22 RBI, 19 stolen bases and 32 runs scored, and Guest owns a .338 average to go along with seven doubles, two home runs, 15 RBI and 20 runs scored. 
•    Sophomore Connor Doan is 1-0 with a 5.25 ERA in 12.0 innings pitched, senior Jimmy Weick (0-1, 1.78 ERA) is holding opposing hitters to a .175 average in 10 relief appearances and graduate student Zach Magee (2 saves) has a 3.52 and 20 strikeouts in 15.1 innings out of the bullpen this spring. 

SCOUTING THE BEACONS
•    UMass Boston (21-10) has won seven of its last nine games and is coming off a 12-7 victory over UMass Dartmouth on Tuesday. 
•    Aidan Blake hit a three-run homer, Elliot Miles singled three times and Mariano Jimenez went 3-for-4 with a double, three RBI and two runs scored for the Beacons, who got seven strong innings from Ethan Hunt in the win. 
•    Justin Gouveia is batting .412 with nine doubles, five homers, 20 stolen bases, 31 RBI and 44 runs scored, Blake is hitting .406 with seven doubles, five triples, eight home runs, 40 RBI and 48 runs scored, and Bostyn Burris owns a .351 average to go along with 11 extra-base hits, 24 RBI and 27 runs scored. 
•    Max Moss is 5-0 with a 4.78 ERA and 45 strikeouts in 43.1 innings, Lawrence Logan (1-0) has a 2.53 ERA and 14 strikeouts in 10.2 innings of relief, and Justin DeFalco has one save and a 4.41 ERA to go along with 22 strikeouts in 16.1 innings of work in 11 appearances out of the bullpen. 

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
•    Johnson & Wales (20-9) has dropped its last two games after suffering an 8-6 loss in 11 innings at No. 7 Salve Regina on Tuesday. 
•    Hasson homered twice and drove in four runs and Trevor Juan went 2-for-6 with a double and two runs scored for the Wildcats, who took a one-run lead in the 11th on Hasson's second bomb of the day. 
•    Hasson is batting .405 with 12 doubles, four homers, 40 RBI and 39 runs scored, Juan is hitting .398 with 16 doubles, four dingers, 22 RBI and 48 runs scored, and Owen Davis checks in at .350 with four doubles, six home runs, 37 RBI and 28 runs scored. 
•    Brett Nickerson is 0-1 with a 4.68 ERA and 31 strikeouts in 32.2 innings, Ben Fosberg (2-1, 3.68 ERA) is holding opposing hitters to a .204 average in 14.2 innings of work out of the bullpen and Justin Markell is 2-0 with a 4.08 earned run average in 11 relief appearances. 

JULIAN EARNS CONFERENCE RECOGNITION
•    After batting .538 (7-for-13) with a double, two RBI, four stolen bases and three walks in four starts, senior Jack Julian was selected as the NEWMAC Player of the Week on Monday. 
•    He singled twice and reached base three times in last Tuesday's 5-4 win over Emerson, was 1-for-3 with two runs scored in a 10-7 victory over Tufts and went 4-for-4 with a double, two RBI, two stolen bases and three runs scored in game two of Sunday's twin bill versus WPI. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Savage is riding an nine-game hitting streak and has produced five doubles and eight RBI during this stretch. 
•    Nowak has reached base safely in each of his 16 starts this spring and boasts a .486 on-base percentage, while Guest has gotten on in 14 straight games to raise his OBP to .454. 
•    Kiely has recorded three straight multi-hit games and has now reached base safely in 12 consecutive outings.

CALL TO THE 'PEN
•    After first-year Jason Finkelstein worked into the sixth inning of Tuesday's victory over Wheaton, four Babson relievers combined to record eight strikeouts while allowing just one run over the final four frames. 
•    Junior Luke McClintock fanned three of the six hitters he faced in 1.2 innings, Magee escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth with an inning-ending strikeout and sophomore Zander Teator struck out the side in the ninth to earn his second save. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Santos recorded his team-leading 12th multi-hit game of the year on Tuesday versus Wheaton. 
•    Tanner leads the Beavers in both runs batted in (29) and multi-RBI games (9). He also is third on the team with nine multi-hit outings.
•    First-year Alexander Wilson was plunked for the ninth time in 23 starts on Tuesday. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 13-1 on the year at home. 
•    Babson is 6-4 in games decided by one or two runs this season.
•    The Green and White is 14-1 when it allows five runs or fewer.
•    Babson is 15-1 this spring when leading after six innings. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Coast Guard for a key NEWMAC doubleheader on Saturday.