BABSON PARK, Mass.—Graduate students Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.) and Tanner Santos (Bethany, Conn.) both had two hits and combined to drive in six runs as No. 20 D3baseball.com/No. 29 ABCA Babson College defeated visiting MIT, 9-5, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) baseball action on Tuesday afternoon at Govoni Field. 

With the win, Babson improves to 8-3 overall and is 1-0 in conference play. MIT, which had its three-game winning streak snapped, slips to 5-9 overall and 0-1 in the NEWMAC. 

Savage homered and drove in a season-high four runs, while Santos singled twice and had two RBI in support of graduate student Tristen Spalter (Sergeantsville, N.J.), who improved to 2-1 after striking out three and allowing four runs over 7.0 innings for the Beavers. Graduate student Thomas Parisi (Somers, N.Y.), senior Justin Guest (West Windsor, N.J.) and sophomore Ryan Liss (Hollywood, Fla.) all doubled, and graduate student Jack Julian (Manchester, Mass.) and senior Walter Sadowsky (Morristown, N.J.) drove in a run. 

Graduate student Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, Colo.) went 3-for-5 with a home run and two RBI, senior Reed Tubbs (Pflugerville, Texas) singled three times and drove in a pair of runs, and graduate student CJ McCarthy (Pawling, N.Y.) hit a solo homer to pace the Engineers' 10-hit attack. Senior Brian Rapanan (Gurnee, Ill.) suffered the loss after giving up six earned runs in 1.2 innings and is now 1-1 on the season. 

Down 1-0 after Schoenfeld led off the game with a homer to right, the Green and White busted the game open with a seven-run second inning. Sadowsky tied the game with a sacrifice fly, Parisi brought home Liss with a double to deep right and Santos ripped a two-run single to right that brought home two more runs for a 4-1 lead. 

Santos stole second to put a pair of runners in scoring position and Savage blasted a three-run homer to left to make it 7-1. McCarthy homered to right to start the top of the fourth but Julian walked and stole second to start the bottom of the frame before coming home on Savage's one-out single to center as the Beavers regained a six-run advantage. 

Tubbs pulled the Engineers within 8-4 on his two-out, two-run single in the top of the seventh, and they loaded the bases down five in the top of the ninth thanks to a single by Tubbs and back-to-back walks. Babson junior Zander Teator (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) escaped major damage though, retiring the next three batters he faced while allowing just an RBI ground out by Schoefeld to close out the victory. 

Babson is back in action on Wednesday when it hosts Suffolk at 3:30 p.m., while MIT hosts Mitchell on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 63-41-1 all-time against MIT and have won six of the last seven games between the teams.
•    Babson has now won seven consecutive home openers and is 22-3 at Govoni Field going back to the start of last season. 
•    All nine Babson starters reached base safely in the game and eight different players scored a run in the victory. 
•    The Green and White is now 7-0 this season when allowing five runs or fewer.