Men's Soccer vs. WPI
Saturday, October 25 | 1 p.m.
Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 42-9-7 all-time against WPI in a series that dates back to 1974.
•    The Beavers are unbeaten in their last eight matches against the Engineers (3-0-5) since 2018 and the sides have played to back-to-back 1-1 draws in Worcester over the last two seasons. 
•    The Green and White is 2-2-2 over its last six fixtures with WPI at home going back to 2014 but recorded a 3-1 victory to open league play on September 16, 2023. 
•    Six of the last eight matches between the teams have been deadlocked after 90 minutes since 2018. 

LAST MEETING
•    Senior Liam Goldstein scored the equalizer in the 89th minute to help Babson secure a 1-1 draw against the Engineers on September 21, 2024, in Worcester, Mass. 
•    Goldstein buried a header following a corner kick with 1:38 remaining in the match and Walker White '25 finished with two saves for the Beavers, who held a slim 5-3 edge in shots on goal for the game. 
•    Aaron Vaz opened the scoring the 61st minute and Julian Quaresima made four saves for WPI, which hit the woodwork once in each half. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (7-5-3, 3-1-1 NEWMAC) suffered a 1-0 loss at Emerson on Wednesday night that snapped its 36-game conference unbeaten streak. 
•    Sophomore goalkeeper JB Montague made three of his four saves in the second half and the Beavers finished with a 12-9 edge in shots but were shutout for the first time by a league foe since a 0-0 draw at Clark on October 25, 2023. 
•    Junior Alexander Yablonovskiy (7-1-15) ranks third in the conference in goals and fourth in points, first-years Connor Hanrahan (3-1-7) and Will Boecher (2-3-7) have each contributed one game-winning goal, and junior Will Lloyd is fourth on the team in scoring with two goals and one assist for five points. 
•    Montague (6-3-1), who has started the last seven games, owns a 0.86 goals against average and a .827 save percentage to go along with four shutouts in 11 total starts. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    WPI (5-4-5, 2-2-1 NEWMAC) saw its three-game unbeaten streak come to an end in a 4-0 loss at No. 10 Wheaton on Wednesday afternoon. 
•    Savio Ketnouvong made all five of his saves in the first half but the Engineers conceded twice inside of four minutes and trailed by less than 30 minutes into the match. 
•    Adin Pezo (3-1-7) has scored a pair of goals in league play, Mike Montabana (2-2-6), Fabio Bastida-Andreu (2-1-5) and Nikoas Previte (2-1-5) have each recorded a game-winning goal, and Noah Amorim leads the team with three assists. 
•    Ketnouvong (4-2-2) has made four starts in NEWMAC play and owns a 1.28 goals against average to go along with a .714 save percentage and three shutouts in eight total starts on the season. 

A GOOD RUN
•    Wednesday's loss at Emerson was the first for the Beavers against a conference foe in almost exactly four years dating back to a 1-0 setback to MIT on October 23, 2021, at Harwtell-Rogers Field. 
•    Babson went 30-0-6 during its 36-game unbeaten streak, which featured a 23-0-5 mark in regular season matches and a whopping 27 shutouts.
•    In addition to its overall NEWMAC unbeaten streak, the Beavers' loss to Emerson was their first on the road since October 28, 2017, snapping a 27-match unbeaten run. 

PLAYOFF PUSH
•    With three match days remaining in the regular season, Babson is currently third in the league standings with 10 points behind first-place Wheaton (15 points) and second-place Coast Guard (11 points). 
•    WPI and Emerson, who will meet next Wednesday, are tied for fourth place with seven points, and a win on Saturday by the Engineers would give them the tiebreaker over the Beavers. 
•    The Green and White, which faces Wheaton and Coast Guard to end the regular season next week, can still earn the top seed in November's conference tournament but must win out and hope the unbeaten Lyons drop points in one of their other matches. 

HOME FIELD HEROES
•    Babson enters Saturday's match having won 19 consecutive NEWMAC contests at Hartwell-Rogers Field since its loss to MIT back in 2021. 
•    The Beavers have kept 11 consecutive clean sheets at home versus league foes and have not conceded a goal in 1,066 minutes and 26 seconds going back to the first of their 3-1 victory over WPI on September 16, 2023. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 7-1 when scoring first and 0-4-3 when conceding the first goal this fall.
•    Babson is 5-0-1 on the year and is unbeaten in its last 18 games when scoring at least two goals.
•    Since 2022, the Green and White is 20-3-7 in the month of October.
•    The Beavers are 15-1-4 in Saturday games going back to the start of the 2024 campaign. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson hosts unbeaten Wheaton on Tuesday at 3 p.m.