Men's Soccer vs. Roger Williams
Tuesday, September 17 | 4 p.m. 
Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 7-5-1 all-time against Roger Williams in a series that dates back to 2001. 
•    Tuesday's contest will be the first between the Beavers and Hawks in 11 years after the teams met every season from 2001-13. 
•    Eight of the last nine games between the sides have been decided by a single goal or ended in a draw. 
•    The road team has won each of the last six games between the teams. 

LAST MEETING
•    Trevor Hoxsie scored his second goal of the match with 0:04 remaining in the second overtime to help Roger Williams defeat the Beavers, 2-1, on October 10, 2013, in Babson Park. 
•    Hoxsie opened the scoring in the 27th minute and then drilled loose ball into the upper corner following a corner kick for the game winner in the 110th-minute for the Hawks, who got eight saves from Tom Mangels. 
•    Justin Laurenzo '15 scored in the 67th minute for Babson, which outshot the visitors 9-1 in extra time and 25-9 in the game. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (2-0-3) remained unbeaten and snapped a run of two straight draws with a 1-0 victory over Western New England on Saturday. 
•    Sophomore Alexander Yablonovskiy put away a feed from junior James Modiano in the 87th minute and senior goalkeeper Walker White made one save for the Beavers, who outshot the Golden Bears 18-4 in the match. 
•     Graduate student James Donaldson (2-0-4) and Yablonovskiy (1-1-3) both have one game-winning goal, senior Matias Gutierrez has scored once and Modiano leads the Green and White with two assists. 
•    White has started all five matches and boasts a 0.40 goals against average and a .889 save percentage to go along with three clean sheets. 

SCOUTING THE HAWKS
•    Roger Williams (4-1-1) bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 1-0 win over 24th-ranked Wheaton on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Ollie Hamilton headed home a service by Cole Merriam in the 69th minute for his first career goal and Hogan Cain finished with three saves for the Hawks, who outshot the Lyons 7-3 in the second half. 
•    Brandon Rodriguez (2-0-4) leads eight different goal scorers over the first six games, Liam Blaisdell (1-2-4) is first on the team in assists and Jack Wildermann and Tyler Jastrab have both produced a goal and an assist for three points. 
•    Cain is 4-1 with a 0.40 goals against average, a .833 save percentage and our shutouts in five starts on the year. 

TOUGH TO CRACK
•    The Beavers enter Saturday's contest riding a 15-game regular season unbeaten streak (7-0-8) stretching back to September 27 of last year. 
•    During this run the Green and White has posted 10 shutouts while conceding just six goals. 
•    Overall, Babson has lost just once in its last 18 matches (8-1-9) since last September 2023. 

WHITE COLLECTS CONFERENCE HONOR
•    After going 1-0-1 with a 0.50 goals against average and a .857 save percentage with one shutout in two starts, White was selected as the NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week on Monday. 
•    He has allowed just one goal from the run of play in five starts on the year and is 27-7-13 with 21 clean sheets in 47 career starts over three seasons.

STRIKING LATE
•    Yablonovskiy's 87th-minute goal marked the third time since late September of last season that the Beavers have scored to take the lead with less than seven minutes to play. 
•    Sophomore Ted Rosenfeld gave Babson a 2-1 victory at Amherst with his marker at 89:55 on September 27 of last season, while Louis Gazo '23 scored in the 84th minute to deliver a 1-0 win at Salve Regina on October 7 of last year. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are unbeaten in their last eight matches (5-0-3) at Hartwell-Rogers Field going back to October 3 of last season and have gone 18-2-5 at home since the start of the 2022 campaign.
•    Babson has not conceded a first half goal in any of its last eight games and has allowed just one marker before halftime in its last 17 matches dating back to September 30 of last year.
•    The Green and White is 13-1-9 when conceding one goal or fewer dating back to the start of the 2023 campaign. 
•    The Beavers are 5-0-3 against members of the CNE since 2021. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson opens conference play at No. 12 WPI on Saturday at 1 p.m.