BABSON PARK, Mass.—Graduate student Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.), classmate Thomas Parisi (Somers, N.Y.) and first-year Gabe Cushner (Harrington Park, N.J.) finished with three hits apiece but No. 29 ABCA Babson College fell to No. 13 D3baseball.com/No. 14 ABCA Salve Regina University, 5-4, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) baseball action on Friday afternoon at Govoni Field. 

Babson, which suffered its first home loss of the year, is now 14-7 overall and 4-3 in conference play. Salve Regina has now split its last four games to improve to 16-7 overall and 5-3 in the NEWMAC. 

Cushner doubled and scored twice, Parisi reached base three times, drove in a run and scored once, and graduate student Jack Julian (Manchester, Mass.) added an RBI single for the Beavers, who finished with 10 hits. Graduate student Tristen Spalter (Sergeantsville, N.J.) shouldered the loss to drop to 2-3 on the year after giving up four earned runs on four hits over 3.2 innings. 

Senior Chrisitan Homa (Fairfield, Conn.) went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI, while junior Evan O'Rourke (Arlington, Mass.) and graduate student Tyler Petrosino (Beverly, Mass.) both singled and knocked in a run to lead the Seahawks. Fellow graduate student Brayden Clark (Beverly, Mass.) improved to 6-2 with the win on the mound, allowing four runs, just one of them earned, on eight hits while striking out five in 5.1 innings. 

Down 1-0 entering the bottom of the second, Cushner led off with a double and then scored on a throwing error on Parisi's bunt single to tie the game. Parisi, who advanced all the way to third on the play, scored on a passed ball one batter later to put the Green and White in front 2-1. 

Salve Regina answered right back in the top of the third as Homa tied the game with an RBI double to deep left center before coming around to score on an error two batters later to regain a 3-2 advantage. The Seahawks added to their lead in the fourth thanks to back-to-back RBI knocks by O'Rourke and Homa. 

Babson stranded a pair of runners in the fourth before putting together a two-run rally in the sixth. Junior Zander Teator (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) led off with an opposite-field single, Cushner reached on an error and Parisi walked two batters later to load the bases with one out. Teator raced home on a failed pick-off attempt and Julian single through the left side to plate Cushner and chase Clark from the game. 

First-year Nolan Ramanowski (Wynantskill, N.Y.) got back-to-back fly outs to strand the tying run at third and retired the first 10 batters he faced before allowing a two-out single to Savage in the ninth. Senior Justin Guest (West Windsor, N.J.) followed with a base hit to put runners on the corners, but senior Andrew Wertz (Dover, N.H.) came out of the bullpen to record the final out on a fly ball to right. 

The teams will meet again in Babson Park on Monday at 3:30 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are now 13-7 all-time against Salve Regina. 
•    Babson is now 4-3 on the year in games decided by one or two runs. 
•    Teator and Cushner both extended their hitting streaks to five games, and Savage is now tied for the team lead with multiple hits in seven outings. 
•    The Beavers are now 4-2 on the season against nationally-ranked foes.