Saturday, March 22 | No. 13/16 Women's Lacrosse at Smith | 1 p.m. | Northampton, Mass.
Sunday, March 23 | No. 13/16 Women's Lacrosse at No. 15/18 Trinity | 1 p.m. | Hartford, Conn. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    Babson continues its four-game road trip with a trip to western Massachusetts to face Smith on Saturday, which is followed by battle of nationally-ranked foes at Trinity in Hartford, Conn., on Sunday afternoon. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. Smith
•    Babson is 27-13 all-time versus the Pioneers in a series that dates back to 1987.
•    The Beavers have won 21 consecutive games in the series dating back to 2001 by an average of more than 11 goals per game. 
•    Senior Kathryn Blake (3g, 5a) finished with a career-high eight points and Nicole Darveau '24 and senior Jessica Evans both scored four times to help the Green and White cruise past Smith 20-3 in last year's meeting on March 23 in Babson Park. 

vs. Trinity
•    Babson is 3-6 all-time against the Bantams in a series that dates back to 2002. 
•    The Beavers snapped a three-game losing streak in the series last March. 
•    Senior Clare Connolly scored five times and led all players with 12 draw controls, Evans provided three goals and three assists, and senior Kathleen Murphy made eight saves as the Green and White scored eight of the game's first nine goals and led 16-4 in the fourth quarter of a 16-7 victory over Trinity on March 24, 2024, in Babson Park. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 13 IWLCA/No. 16 USA Lacrosse Babson (2-1, 1-0 NEWMAC) has won back-to-back games after easing past Roger Williams 15-6 on Tuesday afternoon. 
•    Senior Michaela Downer put up a career-high six points on four goals and two assists, Blake added three goals and two assists and Connolly scored four times to go along with five draw controls for the Beavers, who held the Hawks scoreless for a stretch of more than 23 minutes in the second and third quarters. 
•    Blake (10-2-12) and Downer (7-2-9) have combined for 15 goals over the last two games, senior Amelia Novitch (5-4-9) and graduate student Ellie Hilsabeck (4-4-8) are tied for the team lead in assists, and Connolly (6-0-6) leads the Green and White with 21 draw controls. 
•    Senior Eileen Manning leads the defense with seven ground balls and six caused turnovers, while Murphy owns a 9.03 goals against average and a .510 save percentage to go along with a team-high 12 ground balls in three starts. 

SCOUTING THE PIONEERS
•    Smith (5-3, 1-0 NEWMAC) has won two straight games after defeating Worcester State 17-10 on Tuesday in Puerto Rico. 
•    Kyra Hawk scored five goals, Carolina Sanders contributed four goals and 10 draw controls, and Sadie Tschider added three goals and three assists for the Pioneers, who raced out to a 7-0 lead and were up 12-4 at the half. 
•    Tschider (20-16-36) leads the NEWMAC in points and assists, Hawk (22-11-33) has recorded seven multi-goal games this spring and Sanders (18-4-22) is first on the team with 37 draw controls and nine caused turnovers. 
•    Leigh Hillmanno and Layna Fitzgerald (16-3-19) have both scooped up 12 ground balls, Darci DeAngelis and Yasmin Grant both have eight caused turnovers, and Brooke Testa and Shannon Houtenville have combined for a 12.41 goals against average and a .431 save percentage on the year. 

SCOUTING THE BANTAMS
•    No. 15 IWLCA/No. 18 USA Lacrosse Trinity (3-2), which hosts Williams on Friday night, snapped a two-game losing streak with a 12-10 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Tuesday in California. 
•    Alex Lesko scored four times, Kelsey Restivo added three goals and Brooke Kurtz contributed a goal and three assists for the Bantams, who got 11 saves from Olivia Aguirre and won despite losing 22 of 25 draws. 
•    Restivo (14-1-15) has scored goals over the last two games, Kurtz (3-11-14) produced at least four points three times this spring and Lesko (10-2-12) has three multi-goal games. 
•    Emily Ambrozy, who leads the team with nine caused turnovers, and Ivy Armentrout are tied for the team lead with 11 draw controls, Samantha Hark has picked up 11 ground balls and the duo of Aguirre (1-0) and Ali Macdougall (2-1) have posted an 11.25 goals against average and a .443 save percentage. 

QUICK ON THE DRAW
•    Connolly averaged 10.60 draw controls per game in 2024 to lead Division III for the second year in a row, reaching double digits in 13 of Babson's 20 games.
•    Connolly ranks second (228 in 2023) and fourth (212 in 2024) in Division III history in single-season draw controls, joining Kelly McGinniss of Lycoming (239 in 2019) and Holly Hite of Merdith (222 in 2019) in the top four. 
•    Her program-record 537 career draw controls rank eighth in Division III history, exactly 100 behind all-time leader Emily Wadds of Wittenberg, who secured 637 from 2016-19.

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Evans has scored at least one goal in 30 consecutive games dating back to 2023. 
•    Novitch has recorded at least one point in 18 straight outings, which includes scoring a goal in the last 10 contests going back to last season. 
•    Connolly has finished with at least five draw controls in 30 straight games.
•    Manning has at least one caused turnover in four straight and 13 of the last 15 games, and has picked up a ground ball in five consecutive outings and 17 of the last 18 contests going back to last year.

DOMINATING DEFENSE
•    After allowing 17 goals to No. 1 Middlebury in its season opener, Babson has given up just nine goals over its last two games while registering 12 caused turnovers against both Coast Guard and Roger Williams. 
•    Over their last 19 games going back to March 23 of last season, the Beavers have conceded more than nine goals just four times with two of the contests coming against top-five opponents in Middlebury this season and No. 5 Salisbury in the third round of last year's NCAA Tournament. 

LIFE ON THE ROAD
•    This weekend's contests are part of a four-game road trip for the Beavers, which began at Roger Williams on Tuesday. 
•    Babson is 17-4 away from home dating back to March 30, 2023, which includes a perfect 4-0 mark in NEWMAC road contests. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers have won 55 of their last 56 games when allowing 10 goals or fewer. 
•    Babson is 19-1 going back to the start of last season when leading at the end of the third quarter. 
•    The Green and White has won its last 22 games versus NEWMAC foes, a streak that dates back to April 2, 2023.
•    Since the start of the 2024 campaign, the Beavers are 15-0 when winning the ground ball battle. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson concludes its four-game road trip with a visit to Mount Holyoke on Wednesday at 6 p.m.