BABSON PARK, Mass.— Senior Caroline DiGiovanni (Harwich, Mass.) scored a pair of goals as No. 3 Babson College eased to a 5-0 victory over Wheaton College in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) field hockey regular season finale Saturday afternoon at MacDowell Field.

With their 14th straight victory, the Beavers improve to 18-1 overall and 9-0 in the NEWMAC, clinching their 11th consecutive conference regular season title and 10th straight undefeated NEWMAC slate. The Lyons wind up their season at 8-10 overall and 3-6 in the NEWMAC.

Graduate student Lauren Knight (Orleans, Mass.), junior Ashley Braren (Westwood, Mass.) and sophomore Lauren Golden (New Albany, Ohio) also scored goals for the Beavers, and sophomore Penny Baroni (Dennis, Mass.) contributed a pair of assists.

Sophomore Elise LeBlanc (Hampstead, N.H.) had a busy day in the Wheaton goal in her second career start and finished with 10 saves.

After a tenacious Wheaton defense kept the Beavers off the scoreboard in the first quarter, Babson broke through on a penalty corner in the 20th minute. Baroni took the insertion and unloaded a shot from just inside the arc and DiGiovanni deflected the ball over LeBlanc and up into the top corner of the cage for a 1-0 lead.

The Green and White struck again less than two minutes later when Braren tucked in a shot near the right post after a scrum for her fifth goal of the season and a 2-0 lead going into the break.

DiGiovanni tallied her second goal of the game and league-leading 23rd of the season a minute into the third quarter when she eluded a defender along the left end line and snuck a shot inside the far post.

The Beavers tacked on a pair of goals in the fourth quarter. Golden scored for the second straight game with a shot from the left side on a feed from Baroni in the 49th minute, and Knight scored her first goal of the season on a reverse shot in traffic in the 54th minute.

The hosts finished with a 33-0 advantage in shots and took all 15 penalty corners in the game.

Babson will receive a bye the NEWMAC Tournament on Tuesday and will host a semifinal game on Thursday at 6 p.m.

GAME NOTES
• The Beavers have won the last 10 and 14 of the last 15 games against Wheaton and have a 29-12-1 advantage over the Lyons in the all-time series that dates back to 1986.
• The Beavers extended their home winning streak to 19 games dating back to last season, their winning streak against NEWMAC opponents to 50 games since 2021, and their conference regular season winning streak to 76 games going back to 2015.
• DiGiovanni, who has scored in six straight games with 12 goals in that span, continues to move up on the Babson career scoring lists. She now ranks fourth on the Babson career goals list with 57, and ninth on the career points list with 119.
• DiGiovanni also climbed to fifth on the Babson single-season goals list with 23, passing current assistant coach Tori Roche '20 who scored 22 goals in 2018, and Lauren Curley '22 who had 22 markers in 2019.
• Prior to the game, Babson recognized a group of eight seniors and one graduate student for Senior Day, including Ally Antonacci, Josie Ashton, Caroline DiGiovanni, Brooke Jankowski, Alex Michelotti, Caroline Powell, Laney Reed, and Sanne van der Goes and grad student Lauren Knight.