Women's Volleyball vs. WPI
Tuesday, October 14 | 7 p.m.
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 34-11 all-time against WPI in a series that dates back to 1980. 
•    The Beavers have won eight consecutive matches versus the Engineers since 2016. 
•    The Green and White owns a four-match winning streak against WPI inside Staake Gymnasium dating back to 2017. 

LAST MEETING
•    Senior Isabella Allen led four players in double figures with 17 kills and junior Zoe Ackerman finished with 55 assists, nine digs, five blocks and five service aces as Babson defeated WPI in five sets, 25-15, 24-26, 25-14, 25-27, 15-8, on October 15, 2024, in Worcester, Mass. 
•    Lauren Gips '25 recorded 15 kills and five blocks, junior Hailey Fouche provided 12 kills and 13 digs, and Lauren Griffin '25 added 10 kills for the Beavers, who hit .318 in the decisive fifth set. 
•    Lily Eldridge produced 15 kills, 19 assists and 12 digs, Fiona Gillis and Audrey Stroupe contributed 13 kills apiece, and Victoria Escuer led all players with 29 digs for the Engineers, who finished with just two service aces in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (12-3, 5-0 NEWMAC) is riding an eight-match winning streak after defeating Endicott, 3-1, last Friday. 
•    First-year Ailsa Munro recorded season highs of 12 kills and seven blocks, Allen, Fouche and sophomore Angelina Holm added 10 kills apiece, and Ackerman handed out a season-best 48 assists for the Beavers, who erased a late seven-point deficit in the fourth set. 
•    Allen is averaging a team-high 2.67 kills per set, junior Allison Molendyk is contributing 2.32 kills per set, Holm (2.27 k/s, 0.89 blocks/set) ranks 12th in Division III with a .382 hitting percentage, and first-year Liberty May (2.26 k/s) is hitting .261. 
•    Murno ranks fifth in the NEWMAC in blocks per set (0.81), Ackerman is averaging 8.70 assists per set and leads the Green and White with 36 service aces, while senior Sophia Shaw leads the team in both total digs (178) and digs per set (3.42). 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    WPI (9-8, 2-3 NEWMAC) has dropped two of its last three matches after suffering a five-set defeat to Connecticut College back on October 4. 
•    Gillis and Bridget Spees both registered 13 kills, Lauren Boycourt contributed 31 assists and 16 digs, and Victoria Escuer led all players with a season-high 32 digs for the Engineers, who is now 2-2 this fall in five-set matches after dropping the decisive set 15-12. 
•    Anastasia Kelnik is averaging a team-high 2.21 kills per set, Spees is contributing 2.20 kills and 2.52 digs per set, and Olivia Hutchinson (1.97 k/s, 0.63 b/s) boasts a .372 hitting percentage. 
•    Zeala VanDamme ranks third in the NEWMAC in blocks per set (0.97), Boycourt and Preslie Jerebker are combining to hand out 8.14 assists per set, and Escuer leads the team with 225 digs and is averaging 3.52 digs per set. 

NEWMAC KNOWLEDGE
•    Babson is off to a 5-0 start in conference play for the fourth consecutive season and the seventh time since 2014. The Green and White got to 8-0 in both 2014 and 2022 and were 7-0 before suffering its first league loss in both 2023 and 2024. 
•    Through their first five NEWMAC contests, the Beavers rank second in both hitting percentage (.257) and blocks per set (2.13) and are third in kills per set (12.00). 
•    Holm ranks second with a .472 hitting percentage, Fouche is third in blocks per set (0.90), Ackerman ranks third in assists per set (9.13), and May is first in points per set (5.31), third in kills per set (3.88) and fourth in hitting percentage (.431) in conference play. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Holm has finished with six more kills in seven straight contests and has at least one block in 21 consecutive outings dating back to last season.
•    Ackerman has handed out 30 or more assists in five straight matches and has at least one service ace in eight of her last nine outings.
•    Fouche has at least three total blocks in four straight matches and has recorded at least nine kills in three straight outings.
•    Shaw has served up at least one ace in all 14 matches she has played in this fall. 
•    Allen has registered six or more kills in 11 consecutive matches dating back to September 12. 
•    Munro has recorded at least two total blocks in 11 straight outings. 

ACKERMAN, ALLEN APPROACHING MORE MILESTONES
•    Ackerman became just the fourth player in school history to surpass 2,300 assists in Friday's win at Endicott and needs just 19 assists to pass Eric Yuan '04 on the Beavers' all-time list. 
•    Allen has 794 career kills and is now just six shy of becoming only the eighth player in Babson history to reach 800 kills. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 32-3 at home going back to the 2022 NEWMAC Tournament. 
•    Babson is 11-2 this fall when winning the first set. 
•    The Green and White is 11-0 this season and has won its last 46 matches over the last three years when hitting .200 or better. 
•    The Beavers have recorded more kills than its opponents in 14 of 15 matches this season. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson heads to South Hadley, Mass., to face Mount Holyoke at 1 p.m. on Saturday.