LEXINGTON, Ky.—Junior Zander Teator (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) homered twice and drove in five runs, and graduate student Tristen Spalter (Sergeantsville, N.J) tossed six strong innings to help No. 30 ABCA Babson College beat Hope College 16-3 in seven innings on Friday evening at Legends Stadium. 

Babson (1-0) picked up its first win on opening day since 2022, while Hope drops to 0-3 on the year with the loss. 

Teator hit a grand slam and also tripled as part of a four-hit day, sophomore Ryan Liss (Hollywood, Fla.) was 3-for-4 with a double, a homer and three runs batted in, and senior Walter Sadowsky (Morristown, N.J.) homered and drove in a pair of runs to pace the Beavers' 17-hit attack. First-year Gabe Cushner (Harrington Park, N.J) went 3-for-4 with a run scored and graduate student Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.) and senior Justin Guest (West Windsor, N.J.) each doubled and recorded two hits in the win. 

Spalter (1-0), who needed just 64 pitches to get through six innings, struck out three and allowed two earned runs while scattering six hits in the win. 

First-year Corbin Bennetts (Jenison, Mich.) doubled twice and junior Charlie Saul (Batavia, Ill.) hit a two-run homer to lead the Flying Dutchmen. Senior Trent Johnson (Midland, Mich.) shouldered the loss after giving up 10 runs, just four of them earned, in 1.1 innings to drop to 0-2 on the season. 

The Green and White tied the game thanks to RBI singles by Savage and sophomore Dante D'Avanzo (Ashland, Mass.) in the bottom of the first following Saul's two-run shot in the top of the inning before busting the game open with an eight-run second. Liss and Cushner started the frame with back-to-back singles, senior Jack Julian (Manchester, Mass.) and graduate student Thomas Parisi (Somers, N.Y.) both reached on errors, and Teator followed with his first career home run, a grand slam down the right field line to make it 7-2. 

Guest plated Savage with an RBI single to right and scored on D'Avanzo's RBI ground out before Sadowsky capped the uprising with a solo shot to left for a 10-2 advantage. Liss produced a two-out, two-run double as part of a three-run third inning that extended the margin to 13-3 and Teator homered for the second time with two outs in the fourth as the lead swelled to 14-3. 

Liss added his first career homer, a solo blast to right, in the fifth and the Beavers tacked on another run in the sixth before graduate student Kyle Wolff (Stratham, N.H.) recorded the final three outs in relief of Spalter. 

Both teams return to action on Saturday as Babson faces 26th-ranked Transylvania at 5 p.m. after Hope faces the host-Pioneers at 11 a.m. at Legends Field. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 3-2 all-time against Hope and Friday's matchup was the first between the programs since 2018. 
•    Babson's 16 runs and 19 hits, and its 13-run margin of victory are the most in a season opener since 2013 when it defeated WPI 19-6 on March 15. 
•    The Beavers' four home runs are their most since hitting four in a 15-14 loss at Trinity (Texas) on February 24, 2024. 
•    The Green and White is now 25-4 since the start of last season when allowing five runs or fewer.