Box Score BABSON PARK, Mass.—Graduate student Andrew Watson (Charlottesville, Va.) earned points in both singles and doubles to help 29th-ranked Babson College defeat the Coast Guard Academy, 5-1, in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's tennis semifinal on Saturday afternoon at the Babson Tennis Courts. 

The second-seeded Beavers recorded their seventh consecutive victory to improve to 14-8 overall while advancing to the conference tournament final for the ninth time in the last 10 tries. The third-seeded Bears see their season come to a close at 10-6. 

Junior Wesley Zhang (Staten Island, N.Y.) and first-year Caymus Choi (Hong Kong, China) gave Babson the first point of the afternoon with an 8-2 win at number three doubles. Watson and graduate student Jonah Wilson (Gilbert, Ariz.) followed with an 8-6 triumph over Ben Bonetto (Bend, Ore.) and Sean Dreher (Harker Heights, Texas) at number two before Coast Guard picked up its lone point of the match as Myles DeCoste (Stuart, Fla.) and Charles Norman (Aurora, Ohio) edged the Beavers' duo of junior Ole Lepsoe (Oslo, Norway) and first-year Logan Back (Busan, South Korea) 8-5 at number one. 

Senior Jose Gonzalez (Mexico City, Mexico) defeated Brendan Love (Winchester, Va.) 6-2, 6-0 at number six singles, while Watson recorded a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Logan De Los Santos (Tula, Okla.) at number five to give the Green and White a 4-1 advantage in the match. First-year Kerem Ozlale (Istanubul, Turkey) secured the clinching point with a 6-3, 6-3 triumph over Norman at number two singles. 

Wilson was up a set and tied at 5-5 in the second against Lacoste at number one, Lepsoe won a first-set tiebreaker at number three and Choi and Bonetto were tied at a set apiece at number four when the match was decided. 

Babson travels to Cambridge, Mass., to face No. 21 MIT in the NEWMAC Tournament final on Sunday at 12 p.m. 

MATCH NOTES
•    The Beavers are 25-7 against Coast Guard since 2001 and have won nine consecutive NEWMAC Tournament matches over the Bears. 
•    Babson is 14-6 all-time in the semifinal round of the NEWMAC Tournament, which includes wins in nine of its last 10 going back to 2013. 
•    The Beavers' 14 wins this season are tied with the 2014-15 and 2018-19 teams for the second highest total in program history.