RV/No. 30 Baseball at Transylvania
Friday, February 28 vs. Hope | 5 p.m.
Saturday, March 1 at No. 26 Transylvania | 5 p.m. 
Sunday, March 2 vs. No. 13/11 Baldwin Wallace | 10 a.m.
Legends Stadium | Lexington, Ky. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    The Babson baseball team travels to Lexington, Ky., for three games hosted by Transylvania at Legends Stadium beginning on Friday afternoon. 
•    The Beavers open the season against Hope and will face the host Pioneers on Saturday before wrapping up the weekend against perennial power Baldwin Wallace on Sunday morning. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. Hope
•    Babson is 2-2 all-time against the Flying Dutchmen in a series that dates back to 2014. 
•    The Beavers dropped their first two matchups against Hope before sweeping a doubleheader in Lake Myrtle, Fla., back in 2018. 

vs. Transylvania
•    First meeting

vs. Baldwin Wallace
•    The Beavers are 2-2 all-time against the Yellow Jackets in a series that dates back to 2018. 
•    The teams have met in Port Charlotte, Fla., in each of the last three seasons and three of the four matchups between Babson and Baldwin Wallace have been decided by a single run. 
•    The Green and White suffered a 15-6 loss to the Yellow Jackets on March 9 of last season. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    RV D3baseball.com/No. 30 ABCA Babson (0-0) returns 28 players from a team that captured its first NEWMAC Tournament championship since 2018 and finished 30-13 after making its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2019. 
•    Graduate student Tanner Santos batted .344 with seven doubles, 28 RBI, 21 stolen bases and 39 runs scored, classmate Brant Savage hit .333 with 22 doubles, eight home runs and 37 runs batted in, and senior Justin Guest finished the 2024 campaign with a .313 average to go along with nine doubles, two home runs, 20 RBI and 31 runs scored. 
•    The Beavers' pitching staff is led by graduate student Tristen Spalter, who returned from an early-season injury to win a conference tournament elimination game last May, and is 11-6 with a 3.27 ERA and just 19 walks in 156.2 career innings. 
•    Sophomore Jason Finkelstein went 8-3 with a 4.80 ERA and 61 strikeouts in 65.2 innings, junior James Clark (5-2) held opposing hitters to a .245 average in 60.2 innings of work and classmate Zander Teator went 4-1 with six saves, a 0.71 WHIP and 26 strikeouts in 21.0 innings out of the bullpen last spring. 

SCOUTING THE FLYING DUTCHMEN
•    Hope (0-2) opened the season with a 22-3 loss to Baldwin Wallace and a 6-2 setback against Heidelberg on Monday afternoon. 
•    Cade Seabaugh went 3-for-7 with a double, Elliott Peter doubled, homered and scored a pair of runs, and Brenden Collins finished the day with three hits while driving in two runs. 
•    The Flying Dutchmen return 21 players from a team that finished 22-20 after advancing to the MIAA Tournament final in 2024. 
•    Seabaugh hit .366 with nine double, seven homers and 27 runs batted in, Al Money batted .339 with four doubles, 27 RBI and 15 stolen bases, and Collins finished last season with a .279 average to go along with 10 extra-base hits and 29 RBI. 
•    Reigning MIAA Pitcher of the Year Trent Johnson went 7-4 with a 3.28 ERA, two shutouts and 55 strikeouts in 82.1 innings, while Mason Belmore was 6-3 with a 3.71 ERA, two shutouts and 41 strikeouts in 63.0 innings last spring. 

SCOUTING THE PIONEERS
•    RV D3baseball.com/No. 26 ABCA Transylvania (0-2) opened the season with a 4-1 loss to Webster and an 8-1 loss to Millikin on Sunday afternoon. 
•    Chris Hedlinger doubled twice and finished with three hits, Seita Shiratori went 3-for-7 at the plate and Austin Taylor was 2-for-6 with a double and a run scored for the Pioneers, who used 11 different pitchers in the twin bill. 
•    Transylvania returns four players that started at least 40 games in the field last spring and eight pitchers that made at least 10 appearances on the mound from a team that went 34-14 and reached the NCAA Tournament in 2024. 
•    Calvin Schubert batted .348 with 15 doubles, four home runs, 33 RBI and 68 runs scored, Taylor hit .333 with 19 doubles, three home runs and 52 runs batted in, and Henry Mitchem knocked in 73 runs while hitting .325 with 17 doubles and six homers. 
•    Henry Craig went 6-2 with a 4.06 earned run average and 52 strikeouts in 51.0 innings pitched, Luke Patton was 6-0 with a 4.11 ERA and 64 strikeouts in a team-high 70.0 innings, and Matt Armstrong finished 3-1 with nine saves and a 3.64 ERA in 23 relief appearances. 

SCOUTING THE YELLOW JACKETS
•    No. 13 D3baseball.com/No. 11 ABCA Baldwin Wallace (1-1) followed up a 6-1 loss to Wittenberg on Sunday with a 22-3 rout of Hope on Monday afternoon. 
•    Matt Terzola went 3-for-4 with five RBI and three runs scored, Mally Kilbane homered and John Panstares added a late grand slam for the Yellow Jackets, who recorded 18 hits and took advantage of 14 walks by the Flying Dutchmen. 
•    The Yellow Jackets return five players that started at least 35 games from a team that finished 36-10 after reaching the NCAA Tournament last spring led by Joey Marousek, who batted .351 with nine doubles, 35 RBI, 23 stolen bases and 39 runs scored. 
•    Kilbane hit .349 with 15 doubles, three homers, 34 RBI and 44 runs scored and Dennis Ritlinger-Nirider batted .328 with 12 doubles and 15 runs batted in. 
•    Tyler Walker (9-1, 3.31 ERA) and Vince Dolcemaschio (7-2, 4.23 ERA) both made 12 starts in 2024, while Jake Heatherington went 5-1 with eight saves, a 2.55 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 42.1 innings out of the bullpen. 

POLL POSITION
•    Coming off last year's NEWMAC Tournament championship, the Beavers were picked to finish second behind defending regular season champions Salve Regina in the preseason coaches' poll. 
•    Babson received three first-place votes while the Seahawks, who reached the College World Series last year, collected six in a league that had four teams finish with at least 24 wins in 2024. 

RECORD-SETTING SAVAGE
•    Savage set a new single-season program record with 22 doubles last year while finishing with career highs in batting average (.333), hits (58), slugging percentage (.598) and total bases (104). 
•    He enters the 2025 campaign ranked fourth in Babson history with 20 home runs, which is eight shy of the program record set by Ted Dziuba '06 from 2003-06, and 11th on the career doubles list with 32. 

EXPERIENCE ON THE MOUND
•    In addition to bringing back three of its top starting pitches, head coach Matt Noone returns an experienced relief corps. 
•    Senior Luke McClintock made a career-high 19 appearances last spring going 1-2 with a 2.50 ERA in 36.0 innings, while classmate Matt Milone (1-0, 3.27 ERA) tossed five shutout innings in his only start and held opposing hitters to a .253 average  in 22.0 innings of work in 2024. 
•    Graduate student Kyle Wolff went 1-0 with a 1.42 ERA over seven appearances out of the bullpen and junior Connor Doan is coming off a season that saw him finish 2-0 with a 4.34 earned run average over eight appearances, which included going 7.0 innings in a pair of starts. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Santos finished second on the team with 16 multi-hit games and third on the squad with nine multi-RBI games last season. 
•    Guest was plunked 13 times and finished second on the team with a .436 on-base percentage in 2024. 
•    Over the final 33 games of last season, Teator went 4-0 with a 0.95 ERA, a 0.58 WHIP and held opposing hitters to a .111 average in 19.0 innings pitched. 
•    Graduate student shortstop Jack Julian committed just one error in 72 chances over the final 15 games of last season.
•    Julian and Guest both enter the season with three-game hitting streaks and Savage reached base safely in the final five games of the 2024 campaign. 

 EARLY CHALLENGES
•    In addition to opening the season against a pair of teams that reached the NCAA Tournament to open the season in Lexington, the Beavers are set for a challenging slate of opponents in central Florida from March 14-20. 
•    Babson's seven opponents combined for a .651 winning percentage last year and each finished with at least 25 victories. 
•    Coe and No. 21/23 Rowan both won a pair of games in their respective NCAA regionals, No. 24 Rhodes is off to a 9-1 start this spring and Scranton, which beat the Beavers last season in Florida, is coming off a 30-win campaign. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers went 22-3 last season when scoring the first run of the game. 
•    Babson went 24-4 when allowing five runs or fewer in 2024. 
•    The Green and White was 25-1 last spring and is 46-2 over the last two seasons when leading after seven innings. 
•    The Beavers were 13-4 in games decided by one or two runs last season. 

UP NEXT
•    Following its three-game trip to Lexington, Babson travels to Salem State for a doubleheader on March 8 beginning at 12 p.m.