Men's Soccer vs. Western New England 
Saturday, September 14 | 12 p.m.
Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 17-2-1 all-time against Western New England in a series that dates back to 1990. 
•    The Beavers have won five straight matches between the teams by a total of seven goals.
•    The Green and White are 8-0-1 all-time against the Golden Bears in Babson Park.

LAST MEETING
•    Sam Morgan M'24 scored a pair of second-half goals to help visiting Babson defeat Western New England, 2-0, on September 14, 2023 at Suprenant Field in Springfield.
•    Morgan opened the scoring in the 63rd minute and then put the game away by converting a penalty kick in the81st minute for the Green and White, which was outshot 13-12 in the match. 
•    Senior goalkeeper Walker White made three saves to record his fourth clean sheet in six starts for the Beavers. His counterpart, Miles Lanier, stopped two shots in the loss for the Golden Bears.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (1-0-3) remained unbeaten but was forced to settle for a 1-1 draw after conceding a late goal on Tuesday against Gordon. 
•    Senior Matias Gutierrez headed home graduate student Tyler Fidrych's cross in the ninth minute and White made five saves for the Beavers, who conceded the equalizer to the Fighting Scots following a corner kick with 3:10 remaining in the game. 
•    Graduate student James Donaldson (2-0-4) and Gutierrez have combined for the team's three goals, while Fidrych, fellow graduate student Kento Abe, junior James Modiano and sophomore Alexander Yablonovskiy have each contributed an assist over the first four matches.
•    White has started all four games and boasts a 0.50 goals against average and a .882 save percentage to go along with a pair of clean sheets. 

SCOUTING THE GOLDEN BEARS
•    Western New England (2-2-2) enters Saturday's match looking to snap a two-game winless skid after playing to a 1-1 draw with Union on Wednesday. 
•    Keegan Reim scored on a free kick to tie the game in the 68th minute for the Golden Bears, who outshot the Garnet Chargers 21-6 and got four saves from Braylon Casinghino. 
•    Tyler Lewis (3-0-6) has scored all three of his goal over the last three games, Mike Milazzo (1-2-4) leads the team in assists and Reim has tallied twice for an offense that has produced 11 goals over its first six games. 
•    Casinghino has started each of Western New England's first six matches and owns a 1.33 goals against average and a .795 save percentage. 

TOUGH TO CRACK
•    The Beavers enter Saturday's contest riding a 14-game regular season unbeaten streak (6-0-8) stretching back to September 27 of last year. 
•    During this run the Green and White has posted nine shutouts while conceding just six goals. 
•    Overall, Babson has lost just once in its last 17 matches (7-1-9) since last September 2023. 

IN GOOD COMPANY
•    Head coach Jon Anderson '75, who will coach the 747th game of his storied career on Saturday, is now the second longest tenured head coach in Division III behind only 48-year veteran Jay Martin of Ohio Wesleyan. 
•    Now in his 39th season, Anderson ranks third among active Division III coaches and 13th all-time with 455 career wins. 

SOMETHING IN COMMON
•    Babson and Western New England share one common opponent in Wesleyan in addition to the Golden Bears facing a pair of NEWMAC foes over the first two weeks of the season. 
•    The Beavers played Wesleyan to a 0-0 draw in Middletown, Conn., last Saturday, while Western New England suffered a 1-0 loss to the Cardinals back on September 3. 
•    The Golden Bears also played to a 1-1 draw at Clark in its lone road game on September 1 and dropped a 2-1 decision to MIT at home last Sunday. 

GETTING TO KNOW THE CNE
•    Saturday's match marks is the second of three straight home games against opponents from the Conference of New England (formerly the CCC). 
•    Along with Tuesday's draw versus Gordon, the Beavers will take on Roger Williams on next Tuesday. 
•    The Green and White also faces Suffolk on October 8 and has gone 4-0-3 against current CNE members since 2021. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are unbeaten in their last seven matches (4-0-3) at Hartwell-Rogers Field going back to October 3 of last season and have gone 17-2-5 at home since the start of the 2022 campaign.
•    Babson has not conceded a first half goal in any of its last seven games and has allowed just one marker before halftime in its last 16 matches dating back to September 30 of last year.
•    The Green and White is 36-1-4 going back to the start of the 2021 campaign when scoring the opening goal of the game. 
•    Babson is 12-1-9 since the start of last season when conceding one goal or fewer. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers will conclude their three-game homestand at Hartwell-Rogers Field on Tuesday when they host Roger Williams at 4 p.m.