No. 20 Men's Lacrosse vs. UMass Boston
Tuesday, April 1 | 7:00 p.m.
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson is 17-3 all-time against UMass Boston in a series that dates back to 1978.
• The Beavers have won nine straight games and 16 of the last 17 matchups against the Beacons. 
• The teams will meet for the fourth straight season on Tuesday and just the sixth time since 2003.

 LAST MEETING
• Jared Rainville M'24 scored six goals and matched his season high with nine points as No. 14 USILA/No. 9 USA Lacrosse Babson scored 13 times in the second half to pull away for an 18-6 win over visiting UMass Boston on April 2, 2024, at rainy MacDowell Field.
• Christian Brofft '24 and sophomore Seamus Rooney tallied three goals and an assist each and junior Bennett Smith added a goal and four assists for the Beavers. Graduate student Topher Bower chipped in with three assists in the win. James Turco M'24 (10-of-13) and Grey Sunderland '24 (9-of-14) dominated the face-offs, and senior Alex Fascilla finished with 14 saves in goal.
• Greg Wolff '24 led the Beacons with two goals and an assist. Graduate student Justin McCullough caused three turnovers and picked up four ground balls and classmate Patrick Carey had a team-high five ground balls. Sophomore James Boldy had a busy night in goal, making 17 saves in the setback.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 20 USILA Babson (7-3, 2-1 NEWMAC) pulled away from Wheaton for a conference win on Saturday, 16-10, at MacDowell Field.
• Sophomore Sam Sisk registered a career-high six points on four goals and two assists and Babson closed the game with a 5-0 run. Rooney scored three goals, fellow sophomore Camden Matthews and graduate student Justin Greene added a pair of goals each, and junior Will Reading won 13-of-18 face-offs. Senior Brendan Maher caused three turnovers, and first-year Andrew Almquist made seven second-half saves to earn his first career win in goal.
• Rooney (18-16-34) has at least one goal in nine of 10 games this season, Matthews (24-4-28) leads the team in goals, and Smith (11-10-21) has a team-high five man-up goals. Sisk (10-7-17), Greene (13-3-16) and sophomore Anthony Stillwell (13-2-15) are offensive threats and Bower (4-11-15) is second on the team in assists.
• Graduate Student Tripp Clark (15 CTs, 40 GBs) and senior Brendan Maher (10 CTs, 19 GBs) anchor a defense that allows just 9.3 goals per game. Fascilla (6-3, 9.06 GAA, .568 sv. pct) ranks 39th in Division III in goals against average.

SCOUTING THE BEACONS
• UMass Boston (8-1, 2-0 LEC) extended its winning streak to four games with a 13-7 victory over Plymouth State on Friday evening in Plymouth, N.H.
• Senior Shane McGonagle (3g), graduate student Sean Daly (2g, 1a) and first-year Jack Schartner (2g, 1a) each tallied three points, and junior Matt Hutchings and grad student Seth Libby added two goals apiece for the Beacons, who outscored PSU 8-1 in the second half. Senior Sean Cullagh had five caused turnovers, junior Holden Kuzniar scooped up a team-high four ground balls, and Boldy made eight saves in the win.
• The Beacons boast a balanced offense with Hutchings (21-6-27), Schartner (16-6-22) and Libby (15-5-20, 3 GWG) all with at least 20 points, and first-year Cole Allan (6-9-15) leads the team in assists. Junior Jack DiFalco-Wheeler (52-91, .571) and first-year Jack Baker (42-58, .734) are standout face-off specialists.
• Carey is having an outstanding season with 22 caused turnovers and 45 ground balls, and McCullough and Cullagh have 15 CTs each. Boldy (7-1, 6.96 GAA, .591 sv. pct) has started all nine games and ranks third in Division III in goals against average.

FRIENDLY CONFINES
• Babson is 5-1 at MacDowell Field this spring and is 14-1 going back to the start of last season.
• The Beavers have outscored their six opponent 83-55 at home this season.

FAMILIAR FACE
• UMass Boston's Tyler Low, now in his 15th season as head coach of the Beacons, enjoyed a solid four-year career at Babson, where he played 36 games as a defender for the Beavers.
• Low was a captain for the Beavers as a senior in 2009, when he established career highs for games played (16) and ground balls (28).
• The Beacons have gone 51-16 over the past four seasons under Low, with three Little East regular season titles and back-to-back tournament crowns in 2021 and 2022.

SUCCESS AT THE X
• Reading has won 29-of-44 face-offs over his last three games (.659) and first-year Beck Trafton has captured 19-of-31 in his last four outings.
• The Beavers, who have a .508 face-off percentage, are 5-0 this season and 20-1 over the past two seasons when winning at least 50 percent of the face-offs.

BUSY BEAVERS
• Sisk has eight goals and seven assists for 15 points in his last four games after recording just two goals in his first 10 career outings.
• Rooney has at least two points in seven games this season and at least four points in five of the 10 contests.
• Matthews has multi-goal games in eight of his 10 outings this spring.
• Smith has a point in 16 consecutive appearances dating back to last year.
• Greene has 12 of his 16 points (10g, 2a) in his last four outings.

CLIMBING THE CHARTS
• Bower sits in 10th place on Babson career scoring list with 146 points (61 goals, 85 assists), and he is third on the all-time assist list.
• Smith (44g, 70a, 114pts) has moved up to sixth place on the program's career assists list.
• Maher is sixth all-time with 65 caused turnovers, and graduate student Sammy Kalishman is 13th on Babson's career list with 152 ground balls.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• Babson is 6-0 this season when scoring at least 14 goals in a game and 7-0 when reaching double digits in scoring.
• The Beavers are 5-1 this season and 31-2 over the past three seasons when leading at halftime.
• The Green and White are 16-0 over the past three seasons when holding the opponents to eight goals or less.

UP NEXT
• Babson resumes NEWMAC play at Emerson on Friday at 7 p.m.