No. 20 Men's Soccer vs. Amherst
Tuesday, September 24 | 4 p.m. 
Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 5-16-6 all-time against Amherst in a series that dates back to 1981.
•    The Beavers claimed their first win in the series since 1994 last season in Amherst.
•    Babson and Mammoths will meet for just the fifth time since 2003 on Tuesday. 

LAST MEETING
•    Sophomore Ted Rosenfeld scored at the 89:55 mark to give Babson a dramatic 2-1 win over the then-third-ranked Mammoths on September 27, 2023, in Amherst, Mass. 
•    Following a throw-in, Rosenfeld ripped a shot into the upper left corner from 30 yards for his first collegiate goal as the Beavers collected their first road win in the series since 1983. 
•    Senior Liam Rhatigan tied the game in the 74th minute and classmate Walker White finished with five saves in the win for the Green and White. 
•    Niall Murphy opened the scoring in the 33rd minute for Amherst, which got four saves from Max Landa. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 20 Babson (3-0-4) scored a late goal to salvage a 1-1 draw in its NEWMAC opener at No. 22 WPI on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Junior Liam Goldstein cleared a ball off the line early in the second half and then put away a header following a corner kick in the 89th minute for the Beavers, who got two saves from White to remain unbeaten. 
•    Graduate student James Donaldson (2-1-5), junior James Modiano (1-2-4) and sophomore Alexander Yablonovskiy (1-1-3) have each recorded a game-winning goal, while Goldstein, senior Matias Gutierrez and junior Joao Araujo all have one goal on the year. 
•    White has started all seven matches and boasts a 0.57 goals against average and a .818 save percentage to go along with three shutouts for the Green and White. 

SCOUTING THE MAMMOTHS
•    Amherst (3-1-1), which was the preseason No. 1 in the United Soccer Coaches poll, is coming off a 1-1 draw against No. 2 Middlebury on Saturday. 
•    Fynn Hayton-Ruffner converted a feed from Simon Kalinauskas in the 35th minute and Trey Sheppard finished with one save for the Mammoths, who outshot the Panthers 12-5 in the match. 
•    Hayton-Ruffner (2-0-4) has one game-winning goal and Aidan Curtis (1-2-4) and Mohammed Nuhu (1-2-4) are tied for the team lead in assists for an offense that has gotten goals from seven different players over the first five games. 
•    Sheppard (1-0-1) and Juan Perez (2-1-0) have combined to post a 0.40 goals against average and a .846 save percentage to go along with three clean sheets to start the season.

LATE-GAME HEROICS
•    Goldstein's 89th-minute goal on Saturday at WPI marked the seventh time going back to the start of last season that the Beavers have scored either the go-ahead or tying goal beyond the 80th minute. 
•    Yablonovskiy scored at the 86:34 mark to deliver a 1-0 win over Western New England on September 14 and the Green and White struck inside the final 10 minutes five times in 2023. 

A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
•    Following Saturday's draw in its NEWMAC opener, Babson is unbeaten through its first seven games for the first time since 1991. 
•    Under the direction of then-sixth-year head coach Jon Anderson '75, the Beavers opened with six consecutive victories and were 7-0-1 before suffering a 1-0 loss to Bentley in their ninth match of the year. 
•    The Green and White would go on to finish the year at 18-4-1 while reaching the Division III Final Four. 

750 AND COUNTING
•    Now in his 39th at Babson, Anderson will coach the 750th game of his career on Tuesday against Amherst. 
•    Anderson is third among active Division III coaches with 457 wins trailing only Jay Martin of Ohio Wesleyan (766) and Paul McGinlay of Trinity (Texas), who owns 557 victories. 
•    Only Martin (47 seasons) has a longer tenure among active Division III coaches than Anderson. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    The Green and White enters Tuesday's match riding a 17-game regular-season unbeaten steak that dates back to September 27 of last year. 
•    Babson is 8-0-9 during this stretch and has posted 10 shutouts while conceding just eight goals. 
•    Additionally, the Beavers have won two straight games and are unbeaten over their last nine matches (6-0-3) at home. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson has conceded just one first half goal over its last 10 games going back to the end of the 2023 campaign. 
•    The Beavers have allowed more than one goal just once over its last 15 games, a 4-3 loss to Johns Hopkins in the first round of last year's NCAA Tournament. 
•    Going back to the start of the 2022 season, the Green and White is 27-1-3 when scoring the first goal of the game. 
•    Babson is 9-2-5 against non-conference opponents at home over the last three years. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Waltham, Mass., to face Brandeis on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.