Women's Soccer at Mount Holyoke
Saturday, October 11 | 1 p.m. 
MHC Soccer Field | South Hadley, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson is 32-10-1 all-time against the Lyons in a series that dates back to 1982. 
• The Beavers have won eight consecutive matches and are unbeaten in 12 straight (11-0-1) versus Mount Holyoke going back to 2013. 
• The Green and White has outscored the Lyons 32-3 during its current eight-game winning streak.

LAST MEETING
• Juniors Priscilla-Rose Men-Martin and Olga Metelkine both scored their first career goals to help Babson defeat visiting Mount Holyoke, 5-0, on October 12, 2024 at Hartwell-Rogers Field.
• Elisa Diletizia '25 and Laura Lukowicz '25 each added a goal and Jordyn Ferrantino '25 contributed two assists for the Beavers. Junior Caroline Sutherland also recorded her first career point with an assist, while Nora Ryan '25 and senior Cleo Grignard combined on the shutout without having to make a save.
• Junior goalkeeper Evie Krieg made seven saves in just shy of 68 minutes of action in the loss for the Lyons. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• Babson (5-1-4, 4-0-0 NEWMAC) remained perfect in conference play with a 2-1 victory over Clark on Wednesday at Hartwell-Rogers Field.
• Sophomore Josie Lee scored her team-leading fourth goal of the season in the 78th minute to break a 1-1 tie. Sophomore Lillian McAughan also scored for the Green and White, sophomore Alexa Pesiridis and first-year Izzy Reidy registered assists, and first-year keeper Maisie Creamer made her first career start in goal and finished with four saves in the victory.
• Josie Lee (4-2-10) has at least one point in four of the last five games, Izzy Lee (2-1-5) leads the squad with two game-winning goals and first-year Autumn Simon (0-2-2) shares the team lead in assists.
• Junior Callahan Cottone (0.55 GAA, .889 sv. pct.) started the first nine games for the Beavers while Grignard (0.57 GAA, .875 sv. pct) has made seven relief appearances between the pipes.

SCOUTING THE LYONS
• Mount Holyoke (1-4-3, 0-3-0 NEWMAC) is looking to stop a three-game losing streak in Saturday's game, including consecutive 3-0 setbacks to WPI, Wheaton and Smith.
• Senior Clarissa Govea made eight saves in the loss to Smith on Saturday, following an 11-save performance against Wheaton and 10 stops vs. WPI. The Lyons' offense has been shut down in six straight games since a 1-1 tie against DeSales on September 7.
• Sophomore Ania McMichael leads the team in scoring with a pair of goals while senior Anna Kennedy has contributed a goal and an assist. Senior Taryn White and first-year Sophia Vandersee have also scored for the Lyons.
• Govea has started eight games and owns a 1.60 goals against average and a .833 save percentage with 60 saves and one clean sheet.

STRONG START IN THE NEWMAC
• Babson has won its first four games to begin NEWMAC play for the first time since 2011 when topped Wellesley, Smith, WPI and Clark en route to going unbeaten over its first seven matches (6-0-1). 
• The Beavers join MIT as the only two teams with perfect records in the conference this season. Emerson is unbeaten at 2-0-2, Springfield has three wins (3-1-0), and WPI and Wellesley are each 2-1-1 in the league play.
• Babson has registered a 29-8-9 record in regular season conference matches since 2021 with four straight top-four finishes in the league standings (4th in 2024 and 2021, 2nd in 2022 and 2023).

SIMON EARNS NEWMAC WEEKLY HONOR
• Thanks to her 42nd-minute goal at WPI last Saturday, Simon was selected as the league's offensive player of the week on Monday. 
•    She is Beavers' second NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week award recipient of the season joining sophomore Mack Feeney, who was recognized after scoring the lone goal in a 1-0 win over Rowan on September 13. 

BY JUST ONE GOAL
• All 10 Babson matches this season have been decided by a single goal or ended in a draw. 
• Going back to October 13 of last season, 17 of the Beavers' last 19 contests have either ended with the sides separated by a single or deadlocked. 
• The only two games during this stretch that have been decided by a margin of more than one is a 4-0 loss at MIT last October 23 and the Green and White's 3-1 win over Wheaton in last year's NEWMAC quarterfinals on November 5.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• The Beavers are 4-0-1 this season and 11-0-3 going back to the start of last season when scoring the first goal of the match. 
• Dating back to 2022, Babson is 25-0-4 when leading at halftime.
• The Green and White is 11-3-8 over the last two years when conceding one goal or less. 
• The Beavers have gone into halftime either with the lead or tied in 14 of their last 15 matches going back to late October of last year. 

UP NEXT
• Babson heads to Newport, R.I. on Wednesday to take on Salve Regina in conference play on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.