BABSON PARK, Mass.— Graduate student Jared Rainville (Watertown, Conn.) scored six goals and added an assist while grad student James Turco (Woodbury, N.Y.) and senior Grey Sunderland (Bellevue, Wash.) combined to win 20-of-22 face-offs as No. 14 USILA/No. 9 USA Lacrosse Babson College rolled past Emerson College, 15-6, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Association (NEWMAC) men's lacrosse action Saturday afternoon at MacDowell Field.

With the victory, Babson extended its winning streak to a program record-tying nine games and improved to 10-2 overall (4-0 NEWMAC) while Emerson lost its second straight and dropped to 6-7 overall (1-3 NEWMAC).

Sophomore Bennett Smith (Lake Oswego, Ore.) produced five points for the Beavers with four goals and an assist while senior Topher Bower (Chicago, Ill.) collected five assists. Senior Christian Brofft (Pottstown, Pa.) and first-year Luke Wang (Simsbury, Conn.) scored twice, and junior goalie Alex Fascilla (Huntington, N.Y.) win his ninth straight decision with 11 saves in the victory.

The Beavers dominated the center X as Turco won all 10 of his face-offs and picked up a game-high seven ground balls and Sunderland captured 10-of-12 and scooped up five GBs.

Junior Jack Burns (Clarksville, Md.) scored two goals for the Lions and graduate student Jack O'Rourke (Palisades, Calif.), senior Nicholas Fulgione (North Andover, Mass.), junior Alex Menedez (Naperville, Ill.) and first-year Zachary Stern-Hayes (Brunswick, Maine) notched one each. Grad student Malcolm McGrath (Ridgefield, Conn.) registered an impressive 17 saves and five ground balls but turned the ball over six times.

Babson took control of the game with five unanswered goals in the first quarter. Rainville and Smith each scored twice and Brofft tallied the last goal of the opening frame and third marker in the second as the Green and White pulled ahead 6-0. Emerson answered with back-to-back goals by Menendez and Burns to cut the deficit to 6-2, but Wang fired one in in the last minute of the half to put the hosts up 7-2 at the break.

The Green and White outscored the visitors 5-3 in the third quarter to pull away. After a goal by Rainville to open the second-half scoring, Burns got it back for Emerson three minutes later. Fulgione and senior Connor Karsh (Glenview, Ill.) traded man-up goals midway through the frame before Babson scored three of the next four goals, one by Wang and two by Rainville, to extend the lead to 12-5 after three. The Beavers finished off the win with three of the four goals in the final  stanza, one from Rainville and a pair of man-up scores by Smith.

The Beavers dominated with a 56-30 advantage in shots and 37-18 in ground balls. The hosts were 4-of-5 with the extra man while holding Emerson to 1-of-3.

Babson plays its next three games on the road, beginning next Saturday when it travels to Salve Regina for a 2 p.m. conference game. Emerson hosts MIT next Saturday at 7 p.m. at Rotch Field in Boston.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is 11-0 all-time against Emerson in a series that dates back to 2014, with all 10 of the regular season meetings between the teams decided by at least seven goals.
• The Beavers have conceded a season-low six goals in four consecutive games and six times in 12 outings this spring.
• The current winning streak for the Green and White matches the nine-game winning streak produced in 2016.
• Babson has won 65 of its last 81 face-offs over the last three games for an 80.2 percent success rate.