Women's Basketball vs. Coast Guard
Wednesday, January 29 | 7 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 40-10 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to the 1982-83 campaign. 
•    The Beavers have won their last 11 games versus the Bears since 2015, which includes a pair of road victories last season. 
•    The Green and White owns four straight wins over Coast Guard at home although the teams have met inside Staake Gymnasium just once since 2019.

LAST MEETING
•    Senior Camilla Silk led all players with 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting and grabbed nine rebounds to help Babson defeat Coast Guard, 65-49, in a NEWMAC Tournament quarterfinal on February 21, 2024, in New London, Conn. 
•    Kelly Walsh '24 scored 12 points and senior Emily Flynn added 10 points off the bench for the Beavers, who outscored the Bears 24-8 in the fourth quarter to pull away. 
•    Kira Wood and Kelly Hagerty both scored 12 points and Dorothy Stotts added 11 points for Coast Guard, which shot just 33.3 percent in the second half. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (9-8, 1-2 NEWMAC) snapped a two-game skid with an 87-75 win at Salve Regina on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Senior Katelyn Mollica scored 22 points to lead four players in double figures, junior Allessia Carlo added a season-high 13 points and Flynn posted a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Beavers, who shot 52.5 percent and opened the game with a 21-4 run. 
•    Mollica (14.6 pts, 1.8 reb) leads the conference with 62 three-pointers and is shooting 44 percent from beyond the arc, sophomore Samantha Reale (12.2 pts, 6.6 reb, 2.4 reb, 2.2 stl) is tied for third in the league with 52 offensive rebounds and Flynn (10.1 pts, 7.2 reb, 2.5 ast) leads the team in both rebounds and assists while shooting 43.4 percent from the floor. 
•    The Green and White ranks third in Division III in three-point field goal percentage (38.0) and is second in the NEWMAC in rebounding margin (6.1). 

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•    Coast Guard (12-5, 1-2 NEWMAC) has dropped two straight and four of its last five games after suffering a 93-91 loss at Emerson on Saturday. 
•    Stotts poured in 27 points on 11-of-16 shooting, Hagerty finished with 17 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, and Glory Blethen and Taylor Lynch scored 14 points apiece for the Bears, who shot 54.9 percent for the game and led by as many as 17 late in the third quarter before falling at the buzzer. 
•    Stotts (19.7 pts, 3.4 reb, 3.2 ast) is second in the NEWMAC in scoring and is shooting 49.4 percent, Blethen (11.6 pts, 5.9 reb, 3.1 ast) is shooting just 29.4 percent over the last five games and Julia Mann (11.1 pts, 8.6 reb) has posted four double-doubles and has scored in double figures six times over the last eight contests. 
•    Coast Guard ranks first in the conference in scoring offense averaging 77.7 points and is second in field goal percentage (43.6) while holding its opponents to just 34.7 percent shooting.

MOLLICA APPROACHES CAREER THREE-POINT RECORD
•    After matching her career with six triples on Saturday at Salve Regina, Mollica is up to 186 career three-pointers and is just four away from the program record of 190 set by Erin Young '15. 
•    Mollica ranks second in Division III in three-point field goals (62) and three-pointers per game (3.65) behind only Isabella Suero of Johnson & Wales, and is also 12th in three-point percentage (44.0) and 16th in attempts (141). 

TAMING THE BEARS
•    In two games versus Coast Guard last season, the Beavers outscored the Bears by a score of 47-15 in the fourth quarter. 
•    In the regular season matchup between the teams on January 24 in New London, the Beavers trailed by 10 in the first half and were down seven with seven minutes to play before finishing the game on a 21-2 run to win 68-56. 
•    The Green and White then opened the fourth quarter with a 16-3 run to break a 41-41 deadlock in its conference tournament quarterfinal win over Coast Guard. 
•     Babson outscored the Bears 30-7 at the free throw line and outrebounded them 80-62 in the two matchups in addition to holding Coast Guard to just 38.1 percent shooting. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Flynn and seniors Abby Miller and Kiara Simone Davis combined to score 27 of Babson's final 31 points in the regular season matchup at Coast Guard last winter. 
•    Reale has recorded at least one steal in 26 straight games and has finished with two or more 12 times in 17 games this winter. She also has pulled down three or more offensive rebounds in eight of the last 10 contests, which includes grabbing seven against Emerson on January 18. 
•    Mollica is 27-of-44 (61.4 percent) from three-point range of the last six games and has knocked down multiple triples in 15 straight outings dating back to November 13. 
•    Flynn has reached double figures in scoring in eight of the last nine games and leads the Beavers with six double-doubles. 
•    Over the last two games, Carlo is averaging 12.0 points on 52.9 percent shooting. 

BENCH PRODUCTION
•    After scoring 18 points from its subs in last Wednesday's 57-50 loss at No. 7/7 Smith, Babson got 28 points from its bench on Saturday at Salve Regina. 
•    First-year Madison Hart scored a season-high nine points in just nine minutes, while classmate Julia St. Laurent added eight points on 4-of-5 shooting to go along with four rebounds and two steals. 
•    Junior Chloe Perreault chipped in with five points and two boards and Davis contributed four rebounds and two assists in addition to her two points. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson is 5-0 this season when shooting at least 40 percent from the field.
•    The Beavers are 6-2 this winter when holding their opponents below 60 points. 
•    The Green and White is 3-2 this season in games decided by five points or less. 
•    Babson is 8-2 when leading at the end of the first quarter and 17-2 over the last two seasons when ahead at halftime. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Worcester, Mass., to face WPI on Saturday at 2 p.m.