No. 11/15 Men's Lacrosse vs. Coast Guard
Saturday, April 27 | 1:00 p.m.
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson is 6-3 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to 2015.
• The Beavers have won two straight and three of the last four between the two teams, including a pair of NEWMAC Tournament victories.
• The teams have split the four games played in Babson Park.
• Five of the nine games between the two programs have been decided by three goals or fewer.

LAST MEETING
•Senior Christian Brofft scored a career-high five goals and classmate Grey Sunderland won 23-of-31 face-offs to help top-seeded Babson rally from a six-goal deficit to defeat fifth-seeded Coast Guard, 15-14, in a NEWMAC Tournament semifinal on May 4, 2023 at MacDowell Field.
• Ryan Kenney '23M, Chi Chi Price '23 and Sunderland, who led all players with 17 ground balls, each scored twice for the Beavers. Will Spangenberg '23M and sophomore Bennett Smith both finished with two assists, senior Dillon Quinn forced two turnovers and Will Parducci '23 made six saves in the victory.
• Taylor Gustafson '23 led all players with six goals and Caleb Holdridge '23 added two goals and a game-high three assists to lead the Bears. Senior Ian Feely and junior Ryan Hunter both scored twice, Holdridge caused three turnovers and Dan Lucas '23 made 12 saves in the loss.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 11/15 Babson (12-3, 6-0 NEWMAC) looks to finish off a perfect regular season conference record after posting a 21-2 blowout over Clark last Saturday in Worcester.
• Graduate student Jared Rainville tallied five goals and two assists in a six-minute span in the second quarter and Babson kept Clark off the scoreboard for the final 56 minutes. First-year Luke Wang posted a season-high five points on three goals and two assists, Bordonaro scored three times, and senior Max Mallett added a pair. Graduate student James Turco won 13-of-19 face-offs and collected 10 ground balls, senior Brendan Maher produced three caused turnover and four ground balls, and senior Bryan Hanley made a career-high 11 saves in goal in the victory.
• Rainville (57-20-77) leads the NEWMAC in goals and points, first-year Seamus Rooney (31-11-42) is eighth in goals, and senior Topher Bower (13-35-48) and Smith (10-31-41) are second and third in the league in assists. Turco (.626) and Sunderland (.603) are first and second in the NEWMAC in face-off winning percentage and third and eighth in ground balls.
• Maher (17), graduate student Chip Quinn (14) and Dillon Quinn (14) lead a balanced Beaver defense in caused turnovers. Junior Alex Fascilla (8.82 GAA, .618 sv. pct) tops the NEWMAC in both GAA and save percentage.

SCOUTING THE BEARS
• Coast Guard (2-10, 1-5 NEWMAC) has dropped its last three games, including a 17-16 overtime conference setback to Emerson last Saturday on Senior Day in New London, Conn.
• Hunter scored five goals and first-years Noah Heller (3g) and Eric Key (2g, 1a), junior Mason LaForte (1g, 2a) and Feely (1g, 2a) collected three points each for the Bears, who got a goal from first-year Jake Chambers with 15 seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime. Senior Wyatt Rumpf won 10-of-17 face-offs and scooped up six ground balls, and senior Matt Reheuser (4) and sophomore Dustin Miller (6) combined for 10 saves in goal in the loss.
• Hunter (23-15-38) leads the team in all three offensive categories, while Key (15-8-23), sophomore Patrick Smith (14-6-20) and Feely (13-7-20) have been offensive contributors. First-year Abe Al-Khalili has won 89-of-172 face-offs (.517) and picked up 44 ground balls.
• Junior Nick Butler has a team-high 14 caused turnovers while Reheuser (12.73 GAA, .483 sv. pct.) has started all 12 games in goal.

CHECKING THE NEWMAC STANDINGS
• Babson (6-0) has clinched the regular season crown and the top seed in next week's conference tournament for the third time in the last four years.
• MIT (4-2) and Springfield (4-2) are tied for second and have clinched a playoff berth, while Wheaton (3-3) and Salve Regina (3-3) are tied for fourth and have also secured playoff berths.

WEEKLY HONOR
• Maher was recognized by the NEWMAC on Monday with the Defensive Athlete of the Week award after collecting five ground balls and five caused turnovers in a pair of games.
• Maher joins Fascilla, Turco, Rainville, and Rooney as Beavers who have received NEWMAC weekly honors this season.

NEWMAC POWERHOUSE
• The Green and White have won 12 straight NEWMAC regular season games going back to last season and are 18-3 against conference foes in since the start of the 2021 campaign.
• Babson has won two of the last three conference tournament titles.

NCAA STATS LEADERS
• Babson ranks third in Division III in man-up offense, converting 54.5 percent with a man advantage.
• The Beavers are 25th in scoring offense (15.53), 19th in scoring margin (+6.60), and 32nd in scoring defense (8.93).
• Rainville ranks 12th in Division III in goals per game (3.80) and 25th in points per game (5.13), and Barlow is 32nd in assists per game (2.33).
• Fascilla ranks 14th in save percentage, 22nd in goals against average and 36th in saves per game (13.69).

IN THE RECORD BOOKS
• With 57 goals, Rainville is just the third player in program history to score 50 goals in a season, and his 77 points also ranks third on the single-season points list.
• Bower's 35 assists is seventh on the single-season assist chart. Bower is also tied for fifth with Brad Otis (1997-00) on the career assist list with 66 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 43 consecutive games and goals in 42 straight dating back to his career at Connecticut College.
• Bower has an 19-game point streak dating back to last season.
• Dillon Quinn has scooped up at least one ground ball in all 15 games this season and 26 of his last 27 games going back to last year.

SENIOR CLASS
• Sixteen Beaver seniors will be in uniform for their final regular season home game on Saturday, including Topher Bower, Christian Brofft, Ford Carney, Jackson Hamm, Bryan Hanley, Max Iannone, Sammy Kalishman, Connor Karsh, James O'Brien, Demitri Papoulis, Drake Quental, Dillon Quinn, Grey Sunderland, Jacob Tauss, Ben Wildman, and Robert Wilson
• There will also be eight graduate students at their final regular season home game with the Beavers, including Michael Bazzano, Randy Castle, Harrison Ike, Jack Mahony, Gus Massocca, Chip Quinn, Jared Rainville, and James Turco.

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will host a NEWMAC Tournament semifinal game next Thursday at 7 p.m. at MacDowell Field.