No. 19/30 Baseball at the RussMatt Invitational 
Friday, March 14 | vs. Milwaukee School of Engineering | 9 a.m. | Davenport, Fla.
Saturday, March 15 | vs. No. 20 Rhodes, 9:30 a.m. | vs. Coe, 1 p.m. | Auburndale, Fla. 
Sunday, March 16 | vs. No. 17/23 Rowan, 6:30 p.m. | Winter Haven, Fla. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    The Babson baseball team heads to central Florida for seven games over six days beginning on Friday morning. 
•    After opening with MSOE on Friday, the Beavers face a pair of nationally-ranked squads in Rhodes and Rowan in addition to Coe, which won 31 games and advanced to the NCAA Tournament La Crosse (Wis.) regional final last season. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. MSOE: first meeting
vs. Rhodes: Babson is 0-1 all-time against the Lynx after suffering a 4-2 loss in Winter Haven, Fla, on March 14, 2015. 
vs. Coe: first meeting
vs. Rowan: The Beavers are 0-1 versus the Profs and Sunday's matchup will be the first since suffering a 12-2 loss back in 2011. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 19 D3baseball.com/No. 30 ABCA Babson (3-0) wrapped up an undefeated trip to Lexington, Ky., with a 5-4 win over then-No. 13/11 Baldwin Wallace back on March 2. 
•    Junior Chris Basile and first-year Gabe Cushner recorded two hits apiece, graduate student Thomas Parisi doubled, walked twice and scored a pair of runs, and first-year Chase Burrows allowed just one run over 3.2 innings out of the bullpen for the Beavers, who took the lead for good with a three-run seventh inning. 
•    Cushner is 6-for-10 at the plate with a double and two runs scored, junior Zander Teator is hitting .500 (4-for-8) with two homers, a triple, five RBI and five runs scored, and sophomore Ryan Liss is batting .385 (5-for-13) with two doubles, a home run and three runs batted in. 
•    Graduate student Tristen Spalter (1-0) allowed two earned runs over 6.0 innings in Babson's February 28 victory over Hope, junior James Clark (1-0) gave up three runs over 6.0 innings in the win over No. 26 Transylvania on March 1 and Teator recorded a pair of saves in two relief appearances. 

SCOUTING THE RAIDERS
•    MSOE (2-3) has dropped three straight games after suffering a 5-1 loss to Wisconsin-Platteville to conclude a three-game series last Sunday.  
•    JJ Jackson struck out nine over six shutout innings and Christian Bosque went 3-for-4 with a run scored for the Raiders, who were limited to just four hits and allowed all five runs over the final two innings. 
•    Camden Hoier is batting .400 (6-for-15) with a triple, four RBI and three runs scored, Jordan Skolmar is hitting .368 (7-for-19) with a homer, two doubles, four RBI and four runs scored, and Bosque owns a .33 average to go along with a pair of extra-base hits, seven stolen bases and five runs scored. 
•    Kellen Pate (1-1, 3.37 ERA) has nine strikeouts and is holding opposing hitters to a .150 average in 10.2 innings over two starts, Zach Brzezinski (0-0) has a 3.60 ERA in a pair of starts and Elias Lopez has gone 1-0 with a 3.86 earned run average in two appearances out of the bullpen. 

SCOUTING THE LYNX
•    No. 20 ABCA Rhodes (12-6) has dropped its last four games after suffering an 8-1 loss to Roger Williams on Tuesday in Winter Haven, Fla. 
•    Quinn Blackman went 2-for-3 with a run scored, Myles Kruger knocked in a run and Corbin Kinder doubled for the Lynx, which got eight strikeouts over five innings from Reid Lampert. 
•    Brandon Trichell is batting .370 with three homers, two doubles, 12 RBI and 15 runs scored, Blackman is hitting .333 with four doubles, two home runs and a team-high 17 runs batted in, and Ben Burkhart has gone deep six times to go along with four doubles, 15 RBI and 16 runs scored this spring. 
•    Zac Sohosky is 3-1 with a 4.18 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 23.2 innings over four starts, Mick Arney is 3-1 with one save and a 4.40 ERA in nine relief appearances, and Reid Manti is 1-1 with two saves and a 2.81 earned run average in 16.0 innings on the year. 

SCOUTING THE KOHAWKS
•    Coe (3-1) bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 9-8 victory at Washington University in St. Louis on Monday. 
•    Mitchell Eckardt and Jake Brosius both drove in a pair of runs, Jack Allison homered as part of a two-hit day and Ryan Thoreson went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored for the Kohawks, who went in front for good with a three-run eighth inning. 
•    Austin Gomez is 5-for-8 (.625) at the plate with three doubles and five runs batted in, Thoreson is hitting .438 (7-for-16) with three extra-base hits, three RBI and five runs scored, and Allison boasts a .429 average (6-for-14) with three RBI and a team-high six runs scored in four starts. 
•    Caden Richards (1-0), Ethan O'Donnell (0-0) and Jack Walsh (1-0) each tossed five shutout innings in their first starts of the year, Xander Cloudy (0-0, 1.69 ERA) has seven strikeouts in 5.1 innings out of the bullpen and Drew Osterman has recorded a pair of saves in two relief appearances. 

SCOUTING THE PROFS
•    No. 17 D3baseball.com/No. 23 ABCA Rowan (4-1) has won three straight games after completing a sweep of last Saturday's doubleheader at McDaniel with a 9-2 victory. 
•    Eric Sabato singled three times, Nick Struble went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI and two runs scored, and Steven Maiers struck out six over five shutout innings for the Profs, who scored four times in the top of the first. 
•    Struble is batting .500 (5-for-10) a triple and five runs batted in, Brayden Davis is hitting .364 (8-for-22) with three doubles, a home run, five RBI and five runs scored, and Phil Sedalis owns a .360 average (9-for-25) with two homes, seven RBI and six runs scored. 
•    Zach Coluccio (0-0) has eight strikeouts and has not allowed an earned run over 7.0 innings, Maiers (1-0, 0.90 ERA) has 10 strikeouts in 10.0 innings over two starts and Mike Shannon is 2-0 with a 2.53 ERA and 14 strikeouts over 10.2 innings of work in his first two starts on the mound this spring. 

TEATOR PICKS UP CONFERENCE, NATIONAL AWARDS
•    After throwing a pair of shutout innings and recording two saves last weekend at Transylvania, Teator was selected as the NEWMAC Pitcher of the Week on Monday and earned a spot on the D3baseball.com Team of the Week on Wednesday. 
•    He worked around an error to record the final three outs in Saturday's 5-3 win over the host Pioneers and finished with a strikeout and a walk in a scoreless ninth inning on Sunday to secure the Beavers' 5-4 victory over Baldwin Wallace. 

RECORD-SETTING SAVAGE
•    Graduate student Brant 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 33.

IMPRESSIVE OPENING ACT
•     Six different players recorded at least one multi-hit game in Babson's wins over Hope, Transylvania and Baldwin Wallace and Cushner, Savage and Liss all finished with multiple hits in a pair of outings. 
•    Teator, Liss, senior Walter Sadowsky and sophomore Dante D'Avanzo all recorded a multi-RBI game as seven different players drove in at least one run with six finishing with at least two RBI.
•     The Beavers' relief corps allowed just one earned run and just a pair of extra-base hits while striking out four and holding opposing hitters to a .211 average over 9.0 innings of work last weekend. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Savage and Cushner both have a hit in three straight games, Savage has reached base safely in eight consecutive starts and Teator has reached safely in seven straight outings going back to last season. 
•    Teator has not allowed a run spanning 14.1 innings of work over his last 11 appearances out of the bullpen. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 27-4 going back to the start of last season when allowing five runs or fewer. 
•    Babson is 2-0 this season and 24-4 dating back to the start of the 2024 campaign when recording more hits than its opponents. 
•    The Green and White is 27-3 since the start of last season when its pitching staff allows two extra-base hits or fewer.
•    Babson outscored its opponents 9-2 from the fifth inning on in its three victories last weekend. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers will conclude their trip to Florida with games against Scranton on Tuesday, Rutgers-Camden on Wednesday and Amherst on Thursday.