Women's Volleyball vs. Mount Holyoke
NEWMAC Tournament Quarterfinal
Tuesday, November 11 | 7 p.m.
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 23-16 all-time against Mount Holyoke in a series that dates back to 1988.
•    The Beavers have won 14 straight matches in the series and have lost to the Lyons just once in 19 contests going back to 2006.
•    The Green and White has been victorious in nine straight matches versus Mount Holyoke inside Staake Gymnasium since 2007. 

POSTSEASON HISTORY
•    Tuesday's match will be the first since 1998 and just the second all-time between Babson and Mount Holyoke in the conference playoffs. 
•    The Beavers dropped a 3-0 decision to the Lyons in the first round of the 1998 NEWMAC Tournament. 

LAST MEETING
•    First-year Liberty May led a balanced attack with 10 kills to go along with three service aces and two blocks as Babson defeated Mount Holyoke in four sets, 25-17, 27-25, 22-25, 25-22, on October 18 in South Hadley, Mass. 
•    First-year Ailsa Munro provided eight kills and a match-high four blocks, junior Hailey Fouche finished with eight kills and three blocks, and senior Sophia Shaw led all players with 16 digs in the victory for the Beavers, who hit .258 as a team. 
•    Elle Rimando led all players with 16 kills to go along with nine digs, Madeline Barton contributed 15 kills and Sadie Duffrin handed out 35 assists to go along with eight digs and three service aces for the Lyons, who made 16 service errors in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS 
•    Second-seeded Babson (20-6) has won six of its last eight matches and closed the regular season with a 3-0 victory at Springfield on Saturday. 
•    Senior Isabella Allen led all players with 13 kills, first-year Devon Burke added 11 kills and junior Zoe Ackerman contributed 25 assists, eight digs and three blocks for the Beavers, who made just eight attack errors while hitting .298. 
•    Allen is averaging a team-high 2.68 kills per set and is hitting .231 on the season and .259 over the last 10 matches, Fouche is contributing 2.28 kills per set and sophomore Angelina Holm (2.06 k/s, 0.80 b/s) ranks fifth in the conference with a .339 hitting percentage. 
•    Munro ranks third in the NEWMAC in blocks per set (0.98), Ackerman is second in the league in both assists per set (8.80) and service aces (62), and Shaw ranks fourth in the conference averaging 3.94 digs per set. 

SCOUTING THE LYONS
•    Seventh-seeded Mount Holyoke (15-13) secured its first NEWMAC Tournament berth since 2006 by rallying for a five-set, 25-23, 15-25, 22-25, 25-22, 15-8, victory at Wheaton in Saturday's regular season finale. 
•    Barton registered a career-high 25 kills, Rimando finished with 20 kills, 14 digs and four blocks, and Duffrin handed out 49 assists to go along with seven digs for the Lyons, who hit .333 over the final two sets. 
•    Rimando (4.05 k/s, 1.81 d/s), who has recorded 17 or more kills in five straight matches ranks first in the conference in kills, Barton (3.82 k/s, 2.20 d/s) is second in the league in kills per set, and Olivia Murray is averaging 1.99 kills per set. 
•    Sonja Gray and Milan Dansoh are tied for the team lead with 32 total blocks, Duffrin ranks fourth in the NEWMAC in assists per set (8.31) and Kyra Staples is third in the league in digs per set (4.02). 

PLAYOFF SUCCESS
•    The Beavers have been victorious in their last eight NEWMAC quarterfinal appearances dating back to 2014. 
•    Babson has reached the semifinals of 10 consecutive conference tournaments and has captured four NEWMAC championships (2014, 2015, 2018, 2019) since 2014. 
•    Prior to claiming the first tournament championship in program history in 2014, the Green and White had not won a conference tournament match since the 1993 NEW 8 quarterfinals.

20 AND 10
•    With Saturday's win at Springfield, Babson finished the regular season with 10 NEWMAC victories for the first time in program history. 
•    The Beavers had previously finished 9-1 in 2014, 2019 and 2021, and went 9-2 in 2023. 
•    The Green and White has now concluded the regular season with at least nine conference victories and 20 wins overall in the regular season four times since 2014 (2014, 2019, 2021, 2025). 

900 CLUB
•    With 13 kills in Saturday's victory, Allen became just the sixth player in Babson history to surpass 900 for her career. 
•    She passed Lorraine Mackiewicz '17 on Saturday for fifth place on the all-time kills list with 905, and also ranks 10th on the Beavers' career points list with 946.0. 

TRENDS TO WATCH
•    Over the last four matches, Holm is averaging 2.46 kills per set while hitting. 385.
•    Shaw has finished with at least 12 digs in 13straight contests and is averaging 4.26 digs per set during this stretch. 
•    Munro has 56 total blocks over the last 13 matches and is averaging 1.27 blocks per set during this time.
•    First-year Misaki Harte has at least one service ace in seven consecutive matches and has finished with two or more aces in nine of the last 14contests. 
•    Fouche has recorded 10 or more kills in four of the last seven matches and in 12 outings since October 4 is averaging 2.56 kills and 0.84 blocks per set while hitting .236. 
•    Allen has finished with at least eight kills in nine of the last 11 matches. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 9-1 in NEWMAC Tournament matches inside Staake Gymnasium since 2014. 
•    Babson has won 51 straight contests when hitting .200 or better over the last three seasons, which includes a 16-0 mark this fall.
•    The Green and White is 19-3 on the year when winning the opening set. 
•    The Beavers are 13-1 on the year when recording at least 10 service aces. 

UP NEXT
•    The winner of Tuesday's quarterfinal will take on either third-seeded Springfield or sixth-seeded Emerson in a semifinal on Saturday.