BABSON PARK, Mass.—Juniors Titus Charles (San Tan Valley, Ariz.) and Ben Cosentino (Farmington, Conn.) each scored their first career goal to help Babson College defeat visiting MIT, 2-0, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's soccer action on Saturday afternoon at Hartwell-Rogers Field. 

Babson, which has won 12 in a row and is unbeaten in 35 straight conference matches, improves to 7-4-2 overall and 3-0 in league play. MIT is winless in its last two outings and is now 3-6-4 overall and 1-2-1 in NEWMAC play. 

Senior Joao Araujo (Boca Raton, Fla.) and first-year Connor Hanrahan (Warrenville, Ill.) each contributed an assist for the Beavers. Sophomore goalkeeper JB Montague (Lutz, Fla.) was forced to make just one save to record his fourth shutout of the season. 

Junior goalkeeper Paolo Mangiafico (Farmington, Conn.) played well in defeat for the Engineers stopping five shots. 

Charles opened the scoring in the 10th minute with a terrific individual effort after junior Will Lloyd (Lexington, Mass.) won back possession in the midfield. Charles ran onto a pass by sophomore Maxi Martinez (Miami, Fla.) and split a pair of defenders before touching the ball past the dive of Mangiafico and flicking into the open net for his marker. 

Montague made his lone save of the afternoon, coming out to the top of the six-yard box to snare a header by senior Kaleb Asfaw (San Jose, Calif.) in the 57th minute before Cosentino tacked on an insurance marker in the 60th minute. Hanrahan collected a pass from Araujo in the midfield and played a ball through the heart of the MIT defense and into the box for Cosentino, who stepped in front of a defender and hit sliding finish inside the right post to make it 2-0. 

Mangiafico kept the Engineers within one at the half by denying Babson junior Alexander Yablonovskiy's (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) penalty kick with a sprawling save in the 31st minute before diving to his right to deny Lloyd's bending free kick just over a minute. He also stopped a shot from distance by Beavers' first-year Blake Miller (Odessa, Fla.) less than a minute before Cosentino's goal. 

The Green and White finished with a 19-1 advantage in shots and a slim 5-3 edge in corner kicks. 

Both teams are back in action next Saturday as Babson travels to Salve Regina at 6 p.m., while MIT hosts No. 4 Wheaton at 1 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 44-10-6 all-time against MIT and have won five consecutive matches in the series. 
•    Babson has won 19 straight NEWMAC matches at home and has kept 11 consecutive clean sheets at home versus league foes while not conceding a goal in more than 1,066 minutes dating back to the first half of a September 16, 2023, victory over WPI. 
•    The Green and White is 5-0-1 this season and has won 41 of its last 44 games when scoring at least two goals dating back to the start of the 2021 campaign. 
•    The Beavers are 5-1 this fall and 32-1-2 since 2021 when leading at halftime.