Women's Soccer at Rowan
Saturday, September 7 | 1 p.m. 
Rowan Soccer & Lacrosse Complex | Glassboro, N.J.

SERIES HISTORY
•    First meeting

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (0-2) heads to New Jersey looking for its first win after suffering a 4-0 loss at Brandeis on Wednesday night. 
•    Senior goalkeeper Nora Ryan finished with three saves and sophomore Callahan Cottone stopped two shots for the Beavers, who conceded three times in just over nine minutes midway through the second half. 
•    Senior Jordyn Ferrantino scored and had an assist in the season opener, while classmate Laura Lukowicz notched her first career goal in Babson's 3-2 loss to Johnson & Wales last Friday. 
•    Ryan, who went 6-2-2 with a 1.67 goals against average last season, has made four saves over 90 minutes in two starts this fall, while Cottone and junior Cleo Grignard have combined for three saves in 45 minutes of action apiece over the first two matches. 

SCOUTING THE PROFS 
•    Rowan (1-0) opened the season with a 3-1 win at Smith last Sunday. 
•    Mackenzie Clement tied the game with a penalty kick in the 55th minute, Olivia Giordano scored the go-ahead marker in the 65th minute and Simone Pacetti tacked on an insurance goal with less than nine minutes to play for the Profs, who outshot the Pioneers 20-2 in the match. 
•    Rowan returns four all-region performers as well as Clement, who led the team in scoring with 15 goals and two assists for 32 points. 
•    Olivia Giordano finished with 12 goals and three assists for 27 points last fall, while Calista Burke went 14-2-2 with a 0.47 goals against average, an .869 save percentage and 10 shutouts in 18 starts a season ago. 

HISTORY LESSON
•    Although the Beavers and Profs have never met, Saturday's contest will mark the program's second trip to Glassboro, N.J.
•    After receiving its first bid to the NCAA Tournament back in 2015, the Green and White suffered a 1-0 loss to defending national champions Lynchburg in a first round match played at Rowan. 

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    With three points in the season opener last Friday, Ferrantino is now tied for 14th in school history with 18 goals and 17th on the program's career list with 44 points. 
•    Over her last 30 games dating back to the end of the 2022 campaign, Ferrantino has produced 14 goals and five assists for 33 points.  

NEW JERSEY HOMECOMING
•    Saturday's match will serve as a homecoming Babson's five New Jersey natives – Grignard (Red Bank), senior Julia Milke (Morganville), junior Izzy DeMatos (Holmdel) and sophomores Jadyn Mapura (East Hanover) and Olga Metelkine (Marlboro), as well as senior Kira Cafferty, who hails from Newtown, Pa.
•    The Beavers last played in New Jersey at Stevens in Hoboken back in 2017 and last faced a team from the NJAC in 2015 when it suffered a 2-1 OT loss to Rutgers-Newark in Babson Park. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 12-5-3 away from home going back to the start of the 2022 campaign. 
•    Babson went 9-1-2 last season when conceding one goal or fewer.
•    The Green and White was 8-2-2 last year and is 29-3-2 dating back to 2021 when scoring the opening goal of the match. 
•    Going back to 2021, the Beavers are unbeaten over their last 25 games (23-0-2) when leading at halftime. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson returns home to face Gordon on September 14 at 2:30 p.m.