Women's Volleyball at Salve Regina
Tuesday, October 28 | 7 p.m.
Rodgers Recreation Center | Newport, R.I. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 6-3 all-time against Salve Regina in a series that dates back to 2003. 
•    The Beavers have won their last five matches over the Seahawks although the programs have met just three times since 2013. 
•    The Green and White has been victorious in each of its last two visits to Newport recording three-set wins in both 2022 and 2023. 

LAST MEETING
•    Lauren Gips '25 led tied for match-high honors with 16 kills and senior Isabella Allen and junior Hailey Fouche both finished with 15 kills and 11 digs to help the Beavers rally for a four-set victory (21-25, 25-20, 26-24, 25-23) on October 19, 2024, in Babson Park. 
•    Junior Zoe Ackerman handed out 51 assists to go along with nine digs, while sophomore Sabina Frosk added 13 digs and two aces for Babson, which hit .255 in the win. 
•    Lucy Swanson put away 16 kills and added 12 digs, Lauren Hoyle and Lauren Shurling contributed 10 kills apiece, and Siena DeCicco doled out 29 assists to go along with 12 digs to pace the Seahawks, who let a 24-23 lead in the third set slip away. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (16-5, 7-1 NEWMAC) has split its last four matches and is coming off a five-set loss to Tufts to conclude the New England Challenge on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Sophomore Sofia Ibarra set a new career high with 13 kills, Ailsa Munro contributed 11 kills and seven blocks, Ackerman dished out 43 assists and senior Sophia Shaw led all players with 26 digs for the Beavers, who had a one-point lead late in the fifth set despite finishing with their second lowest hitting percentage of the year (.123). 
•    Allen (2.59 kills/set) is hitting .256 over the last six matches, Fouche is averaging 2.30 kills per set and junior Angelina Holm (2.01 k/s, 0.87 blocks/set) owns a team-best .333 hitting percentage. 
•    Munro ranks fourth in the conference in blocks per set (0.90), Ackerman is second in the league handing out 8.76 assists per set, and Shaw has moved up to fourth in the NEWMAC in digs per set (3.75). 

SCOUTING THE SEAHAWKS
•    Salve Regina (9-11, 1-7 NEWMAC) has dropped seven of its last eight matches and is coming off a 3-0 loss at Coast Guard last Tuesday. 
•    Anouk Jansen registered nine kills, Kalena Stevis and Kate Andy combined for 22 assists, and Swanson led two players in double figures with 11 digs for the Seahawks, who must their final three matches to secure a spot in next month's conference tournament. 
•    Hoyle (2.62 k/s) is hitting .244 on the year, Jansen is averaging 2.45 k/s and Shurling is contributing 2.33 kills per set. 
•    Francesca Spadorcia leads the team with 43 total blocks, the duo of Stavish and Andy have combined to dole out 8.13 assists per set, and Madelyn Homer is first on the squad in both total digs (164) and digs per set (3.04). 

POSTSEASON PUSH
•    Babson, which suffered its first conference loss of the season last Tuesday against MIT, is currently tied for second place alongside Springfield with three league matches go.
•    The Beavers, who also face Clark and Springfield to close the regular season, can finish as high as second by winning out and need two wins to secure a top four seed and a home quarterfinal match on November 11. 

RISING IN THE RECORD BOOKS
•    Allen, who was named to the New England Challenge All-Tournament team, needs just 4.5 more points to become the 10th player in school history to surpass 900 for her career, and her 855 kills are just six shy of matching Caitlin O'Neill '10 for seventh place all-time. 
•    Shaw has 961 digs in 98 career matches and needs just 39 to become the 11th player in school history to reach the 1,000-dig milestone. 
•    Ackerman (2,551) is just the third player in Babson history to surpass 2,500 assists and also is now sixth all-time with 159 service aces. 

BLOCK PARTY
•    The Beavers totaled 36 blocks and averaged 2.57 blocks per set in matches against Middlebury, Williams and Tufts over the weekend. 
•    Holm and Munro both set new career highs with eight blocks apiece in Friday's victory over Middlebury that saw Babson finish with 17 total blocks, which was its most since recording 17 in a five-set win over Emerson on October 13, 2015. 
•    Munro (66) and Holm (60) both rank among the top six in the conference in total blocks and blocks per set entering the week.

TRENDS TO WATCH
•    Allen has finished with eight or more kills in seven of the last eight matches. 
•    Holm has recorded multiple blocks in 19 of 20 matches this season and has at least one block in 27 outings in a row dating back to last season.
•    Shaw has served up at least one ace in 18 of 19 matches this fall and has finished with 12 or more digs in eight straight contests while averaging 4.38 digs per set during this stretch.
•    Ackerman has dished out 30 or more assists in 10 of Babson's last 11 matches. 
•    Munro has contributed at least two blocks in 19 of 21 contests this fall.
•    In nine matches in the month of October, Fouche is averaging 2.71 kills and 0.94 blocks per set to go along with a .251 hitting percentage.  
•    First-year Misaki Harte registered 11 service aces in three matches at the New England Challenge and has finished with two or more in eight of the last nine contests. 


NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson is 6-1 in road matches this season and has recorded six consecutive victories since falling at Johns Hopkins back on August 31. 
•    The Beavers have won the opening set in 18 of 21 matches this fall and is 15-3 when doing so.
•    The Green and White is 9-1 when its opponents finish with a hitting percentage of .150 or lower.
•    Babson is 14-0 on the year and has won 49 straight matches when hitting .200 or better.

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Schenectady, N.Y., to face Union and William Smith beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday.