No. 21/24 Baseball vs. Trinity
Wednesday, April 2 | 3:30 p.m.
Govoni Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 8-12 all-time against Trinity in a series that dates back to 1992.
•    The Beavers and Bantams have split their last 12 games dating back to 2005, while includes the Green and White winning two out of three against Trinity in the 2019 NCAA regionals. 
•    Wednesday's contest will be the first played between the programs in Babson Park since 2000. 

LAST MEETING
•    Connor Gill '19 went 4-for-5 with two RBI and Brian McHale '19 was 2-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored to help Babson defeat Trinity, 10-3, in the deciding game of the NCAA Tournament Hartford Regional on May 19, 2019, in Hartford, Conn.
•    Eric Jaun '19 and Matthew Valente '20 both drove in a pair of runs, Nicholas Browne '19 doubled twice and Jordy Allard '21 allowed just two earned runs over 6.0 innings to improve to 8-0 for the Beavers. 
•    Brett Stevenson went 3-for-4 and Ben Reinisch, Alex Rodriguez and Tyler Buckley all drove in a run for the Bantams, who took an early -2-0 lead before giving up six runs in the fifth inning. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 21 D3baseball.com/No. 24 ABCA Babson (11-5) is coming off a 13-1 seven-inning loss at MIT on Tuesday afternoon. 
•    Junior Walter Sadowsky went 2-for-3 with a home run and graduate student Tanner Santos and senior Justin Guest both contributed a single and a stolen base for the Beavers, who stranded seven runners on base over the first five innings before the Engineers broke the game open. 
•    Sophomore Ryan Liss is batting .351 with three homers, six doubles, 19 RBI and 13 runs scored, Sadowsky is hitting .321 with two homers, 13 RBI and 12 runs scored, and Guest checks in at .311 with a home run, six doubles, eight RBI and 12 runs scored. 
•    First-year Chase Burrows is 3-0 with a 2.20 earned run average and a 0.86 WHIP in 16.1 innings pitched, senior Luke McClintock (0-0, 3.00 ERA) is holding opposing hitters to a .136 average in five relief appearances and junior Zander Teator (0-0, 3.86 ERA) has three saves and has recorded eight strikeouts in. 7.0 innings out of the bullpen this spring. 
 
SCOUTING THE BANTAMS
•    Trinity (6-10) has dropped two straight games and is coming off a 21-9 loss at Bowdoin last Friday. 
•    Andrew Park went 3-for-4 with a home run and four runs batted in, Brett Stone was 2-for-3 with two RBI and Cole Mascolo doubled and knocked in a run for the Bantams, who finished with six stolen bases and took an early 7-4 lead before allowing five runs in the sixth and nine more in the seventh. 
•    Dylan Schnitzer is batting .333 with two doubles, two triples, three homers and 17 runs batted in, Timothy Domizio is hitting .327 with a homer, five doubles and 11 RBI, and Stone enters the day with a .314 average to go along with a pair of triples, seven RBI and six runs scored. 
•    Drew McGowan (1-1, 4.50 ERA) has recorded nine strikeouts and is holding opposing batters to a .209 average in 10.0 innings pitched, Andrew Castaneda (0-0, 1.80 ERA) has allowed just two hits in 5.0 innings and Peter Murphy (0-0, 4.26 ERA) is tied for second on the team with eight relief appearances on the year. 

RUNNING INTO THE RECORD BOOKS
•    Santos, who swiped three bags in Saturday's game-one win over Emerson, matched the Beavers' program record of 55 stolen set by Steve Tahmoush '08 from 2005-08 in Tuesday's loss at MIT.
•    Santos, who is 6-for-6 in steal attempts this season, is the only player in Babson history to record at least 20 stolen bases in two different seasons after setting a career high with 23 in 2023 and finishing with 21 last spring. 

STRONG STARTS
•    Sophomore Jason Finkelstein and junior James Clark combined to strike out 15 batters while giving up just three hits and issuing one walk over 13.0 innings in Saturday's sweep of Emerson. 
•    Clark, who struck out seven to improve to 2-0 with his first career shutout, allowed just a first inning single before retiring the next 16 batters he faced in a dominating performance as the Beavers were 12-1 winners in Saturday's opener against the Lions. 
•    Finkelstein recorded a season-high eight strikeouts and gave up no runs on two hits over 6.0 innings to improve to 1-0 on the year in game two. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Sadowsky, who now has multiple hits in four starts this spring, extended his hitting streak to 10 games on Tuesday at MIT. 
•    Liss owns an eight-game hitting streak and is batting .379 (11-for-29) with two homers, three doubles and 16 runs batted in during this stretch. 
•    Liss and Guest lead the Green and White with six multi-hit games apiece. 
•    Santos has reached base safely in 11 consecutive outings, while graduate student Brant Savage was plunked for the fifth time this year to extend his on-base streak to nine games in a row.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 4-0 at home this season and have gone 25-3 at Govoni Field since the start of the 2024 campaign. 
•    Babson is 10-0 on the year when allowing five runs or fewer. 
•    The Green and White has at least one extra-base hit in all 16 games this spring and is 11-3 when it records at least two. 
•    The Beavers are 6-2 when scoring the first run of the game this season. 

UP NEXT 
•    Babson travels to Worcester for a doubleheader against Clark on Saturday beginning at 12 p.m.