Women's Volleyball at Emerson
Tuesday, October 7 | 7 p.m. 
Brown & Plofker Gym | Boston, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 13-3 all-time against Emerson in a series that dates back to 2009.
•    The Beavers have won 10 of their last 11 matches against the Lions, which includes five straight dating back to the 2019 NEWMAC Tournament final. 
•    The Green and White has won four of the last five matches and is 5-3 all-time versus Emerson inside Brown & Plofker Gym. 
•    Four of the last six matches between the squads have been decided in either four or five sets. 

LAST MEETING
•    Lauren Gips '25 hit .500 and led all players with 12 kills, senior Isabella Allen provided 10 kills and junior Zoe Ackerman finished with 32 assists and nine digs to help the Beavers sweep Emerson, 25-20, 25-19, 25-20, on September 24, 2024, in Babson Park. 
•    Lauren Griffin '25 chipped in with nine kills and senior Sophia Shaw tied for match-high honors with 13 digs for Babson, which pulled away late in each set and hit .253 as a team. 
•    Amelia Combs recorded eight kills and six digs, Mia Rodriguez dished out 20 assists and Caroline Davis had a team-high 13 digs for the Lions, who matched their lowest hitting percentage of the season (.082) in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (10-3, 4-0 NEWMAC) has won six consecutive matches after sweeping Coast Guard (25-19, 25-18, 25-21) on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Junior Hailey Fouche led all players with 10 kills and four blocks, sophomore Angelina Holm hit .529 and added nine kills, and Ackerman contributed 30 assists, five digs, three kills and two blocks for the Beavers, who finished with a .253 hitting percentage. 
•    Allen paces a balanced attack with 2.66 kills per set, first-year Liberty May (2.55 k/s) is hitting .276, junior Allison Molendyk is contributing 2.28 kills per set, and Holm (2.26 k/s, 0.92 blocks/set) ranks seventh in Division III with a .399 hitting percentage. 
•    Ackerman is averaging 8.34 assists and 1.90 digs per set and leads the Green and White with 31 service aces, while senior Sophia Shaw is contributing a team-high 3.31 digs per set. 

SCOUTING THE LIONS
•    Emerson (10-7, 3-1 NEWMAC) has won seven of its last nine matches and bounced back from a 3-1 loss to Springfield with a 3-0 victory over Southern Maine in a tri-match on Saturday. 
•    Dalena Garrett recorded 13 kills, Sophia Schiappa contributed 17 assists, seven kills and five digs, and Chloe Hokenson added 12 assists and six digs for the Lions, who recorded their second highest hitting percentage of the fall (.321) in the win over the Huskies. 
•    Shirley Yu ranks third in the NEWMAC in kills per set (3.51), Rachel Dickerson is averaging 2.65 kills and 1.70 digs per set, and Lizi Horning is contributing 1.75 kills per set. 
•    Catherine McDonough leads the team with 28 total blocks, Hokenson and Schiappa have combined to hand out 8.74 assists per set, and Sami Kim is averaging 3.03 digs per set. 

NEWMAC BY THE NUMBERS
•    Through its first four NEWMAC matches, the Green and White ranks second in hitting percentage (.257), kills per set (12.00) and blocks per set (2.13). 
•    Holm ranks second in hitting percentage (.472), Ackerman is second in assists per set (9.13), May is third in kills per set (3.88) and Fouche ranks third in blocks per set (0.90) in four matches versus league foes. 
•    Babson is 4-0 in NEWMAC play for the fourth year in a row and is seeking to start conference play with five consecutive victories for the seventh time since 2014 under head coach Eric Neely. 

LION TAMERS
•    Ackerman has totaled 77 assists, 16 digs and four aces and is averaging 9.63 assists and 2.00 digs per set in two career matches against Emerson. 
•    Allen is averaging 2.60 kills per set and registered 16 kills in Babson's four-set victory in 2022, while Molendyk recorded 21 kills and hit .385 in the Beavers' five-set 2023 triumph over the Lions. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Holm has finished with eight more kills in five straight contests and has at least one block in 19 consecutive outings dating back to last season.
•    Ackerman has dished out at least 28 assists while finishing with five or more digs in six consecutive matches. 
•    Shaw has served up at least one ace in all 12 matches she has played in this fall. 
•    Allen has registered six or more kills in nine consecutive matches dating back to September 12. 
•    First-year Ailsa Munro has recorded at least two total blocks in nine straight outings. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers rank 20th in Division III in hitting percentage (.237) and are 10-0 this fall when hitting .200 or better. 
•    Babson is 7-0 on the year and 23-3 going back to the start of the 2024 campaign when recording more blocks than its opponents. 
•    The Green and White is 9-2 this season and 117-9 since 2019 when winning the opening set. 
•    The Beavers are 6-1 this season and have won 40 of their last 41 matches since 2023 when limiting their foes to a hitting percentage of .150 or lower. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson steps away from conference play to face Endicott on Friday night in Beverly, Mass.