Baseball at Coast Guard
Saturday, April 27 | 12 p.m. (DH)
Nitchman Field | New London, Conn.

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 65-24 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to 1978. 
•    The Beavers have won 12 of their last 14 games against the Bears although both losses have come on the road. 
•    The teams have split their last four contests with the Green and White outscoring Coast Guard 14-12. 

LAST MEETING
•    Blake Carroll hit a solo homer in the first inning and added a two-run shot in the seventh to help Coast Guard defeat Babson, 7-1, on April 11, 2023, in New London, Conn. 
•    Greg Boland went 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI and John Carroll was 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored for the Bears, who got six innings of one-run ball from Harrison Milbert on the mound. 
•    Michael Cook '23 homered with one out in the fourth for the Beavers, who finished with just six hits in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (20-9, 8-3 NEWMAC) has won four straight and six of its last seven games after defeating Johnson & Wales 5-4 in 10 innings on Thursday. 
•    Senior Brant Savage singled twice and drove in a run, classmate Ike Kiley produced a two-run single and graduate student Luke Tanner scored sophomore Chris Basile's grounder to second in the bottom of the 10th for the Beavers, who jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the third. 
•    Savage is batting .358 with a league-leading 17 doubles, five home runs, 28 RBI and 24 runs scored, senior Tanner Santos is hitting .347 with eight extra-base hits, 24 RBI, 33 runs scored, and ranks second in the conference with 20 stolen bases, while Tanner owns a .298 average to go along with six doubles, four homers, a team-high 31 RBI and 31 runs scored. 
•    Graduate student Greg Nieskens (2-2, 3.64 ERA) is holding opposing hitters to a .224 average and boasts a 1.05 WHIP in 42.0 innings, sophomore James Clark is 4-2 with a 5.09 ERA and 33 strikeouts in 40.2 innings pitched, and classmate Zander Teator is 3-1 with two saves, a 4.63 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 11.2 innings of work out of the bullpen. 

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•    Coast Guard (20-8, 9-2 NEWMAC) has won four straight and eight of its last nine outings after outslugging Nichols, 21-12, on Wednesday. 
•    Nathan Stafford went 3-for-6 with a three-run homer and six runs batted in, Kael Godshalk was 3-for-4 with a double, a homer and six RBI, and John Carroll finished 3-for-5 with a double and three runs scored for the Bears, who took the lead with a seven-run fifth inning.
•    Stafford is batting a league-best .474 with 14 doubles, five homers, 42 RBI and 30 runs scored, Richard Barkley is hitting .313 with nine doubles, 10 home runs, 37 RBI and 28 runs scored, and Wyatt Duthu boasts a .441 on-base percentage to go along with a .312 average, four doubles, four dingers, 26 RBI and 40 runs scored. 
•    Vito Giordano is 2-1 with a 2.79 ERA and 42 strikeouts in 38.2 innings pitched, Milbert (5-0, 3.70 ERA) had a 0.99 WHIP and 49 strikeouts against just six walks  in 41.1 innings pitched, and Ryan Karman is 3-0 with four saves, a 0.71 ERA and 21 strikeouts in 25.1 innings of relief. 

WHAT'S AT STAKE
•    Entering the penultimate weekend of conference play, the top four teams are separated by just two games in the loss column. 
•    Salve Regina (10-2) holds a half-game lead over second-place Coast Guard (9-2), while Babson enters Saturday's twin bill a game in back of the Bears. 
•    Wheaton (9-4) is percentage points behind the Beavers in fourth, while WPI (6-5) is currently fifth. 
•    The top six teams qualify for the NEWMAC Tournament, which begins with a pair of play-in games on Wednesday, May 8. 

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. 

WE'RE GOING STREAKING
•    Savage is riding an 11-game hitting streak and has produced six doubles and nine RBI during this stretch. 
•    Graduate student John Nowak has reached base safely in each of his 18 starts this spring and boasts a .481 on-base percentage, while junior Justin Guest has gotten on in 15 straight games to raise his OBP to .446. 
•    Kiely, who has multiple hits in three of his last four starts, has driven in at least one run in four consecutive outings and has reached base safely in 13 straight contests. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Santos recorded his team-leading 12th multi-hit game of the year on Tuesday versus Wheaton his 20 stolen bases are just five away from the single-season program record. 
•    Tanner leads the Beavers in both runs batted in (31) and multi-RBI games (10). He also is third on the team with 10 multi-hit outings.
•    The Green and White has nine players with at least 14 RBI and seven players with at least 20 runs scored through its first 29 games. 
•    Babson's pitching staff ranks 41st in Division III in hits allowed per nine innings (8.56) and has given up seven hits or fewer in five of the last seven games. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 7-2 in games decided by one or two runs this season.
•    Babson is 17-4 when outhitting its opponents. 
•    The Green and White is 17-1 this spring when leading after six innings.
•    Babson is 16-1 when allowing five runs or fewer on the season. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Wheaton on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.