No. 29 Baseball vs. No. 13/14 Salve Regina
Monday, April 14 | 3:30 p.m. 
Govoni Field | Babson Park, Mass.

WHAT TO KNOW
•    After being forced to split up Saturday's scheduled doubleheader due to rain, Babson and Salve Regina will wrap up their regular season series on Monday afternoon.

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 13-7 all-time against Salve Regina in a series that dates back to 1986. 
•    The Beavers dropped both regular season matchups last April before defeating the Seahawks in the NEWMAC Tournament. 
•    Friday's contest was the first played between the teams in Babson Park since 2002. 

LAST MEETING
•    Christian Homa went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI and Brayden Clark allowed just one earned run over 5.1 innings to help No. 13/14 Salve Regina defeat the 29th-ranked Beavers, 5-4, on Friday afternoon. 
•    Evan O'Rourke and Tyler Petrosino each knocked in a run and Nolan Romanowski retired the first 10 batters he faced before handing the ball to Andrew Wertz to get the final out for the Seahawks. 
•    First-year Gabe Cushner went 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, graduate student Thomas Parisi was 2-for-3 with an RBI and classmate Jack Julian added an RBI single for Babson, which put runners on the corners with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 29 ABCA Babson (14-7, 4-3 NEWMAC) has won two straight games after defeating Suffolk, 9-4, on Wednesday afternoon. 
•    Julian went 2-for-3 with three RBI, junior Zander Teator doubled and drove in three runs, and sophomore Ryan Liss sparked a five-run eighth inning with a first-pitch homer to right field for the Beavers, who saw six relievers combine to allow just one run over the final six innings. 
•    Teator is batting .417 with three home runs, five doubles, 16 RBI and 12 runs scored, Liss is hitting .324 with four homers, six doubles, 21 RBI and 17 runs scored, and senior Justin Guest enters the week with a .304 average to go along with seven doubles, two homers, 10 RBI and a team-high 18 runs scored. 
•    First-year Chase Burrows is 4-0 with a 2.17 ERA and is holding opposing hitters to a .178 average in 29.0 innings, sophomore Jason Finkelstein (2-0, 3.33 ERA) has won back-to-back starts and has 18 strikeouts in 24.1 innings, and junior James Clark is 2-1 with a 4.23 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 27.2 innings pitched.

SCOUTING THE SEAHAWKS
•    No. 13 D3baseball.com/No. 14 ABCA Salve Regina (16-7, 5-3 NEWMAC) followed up Tuesday's loss to Clark by defeating MIT 5-2 in a game suspended back on March 28 on Wednesday. 
•    Brandon Grover went 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI, Nate Ruehs went 2-for-2 with and RBI and Kyle Carozza struck out nine while giving up two runs, both unearned, over 7.0 innings for the Seahawks, who led 2-0 in the fourth inning when the game was paused. 
•    Shane Williams is batting .342 with five doubles, two triples, 20 RBI and 18 runs scored, Hunter Yaworski is hitting .343 with two homers, three doubles and 10 runs batted in, and Homa owns a .330 average to go along with 10 doubles, two triples, 19 RBI and 22 runs scored. 
•    Carozza (5-0, 2.41 ERA) has fanned 39 in 33.2 innings,  the duo of Jason Arrigo (2-0, 0.00 ERA) and Andrew Wertz (3 saves, 0.79 ERA) have combined for 41 strikeouts while holding opposing batters to a .154 average over 27.0 innings of work, and James Keating is 1-1 with a 3.21 ERA in 14.0 innings on the year.

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Senior Walter Sadowsky has a hit in 11 consecutive games dating back to March 15, while graduate student graduate student Tanner Santos has reached base safely in each of his 16 starts this spring. 
•    Liss has been on base in 15 consecutive games and Cushner, who is batting .417 with a .491 OBP this season, has reached successfully in all 14 of his starts to begin the year. 
•    Teator, who had his four-game streak of extra-base hits snapped on Friday, has reached base safely in each of his last eight starts. 

CALL TO THE 'PEN
•    Senior Luke McClintock, who picked up his first win of the year on Wednesday with a scoreless eighth inning against Suffolk, boasts a 0.78 WHIP and has held opposing hitters to a .125 average in eight relief appearances. 
•    Teator (0-0, 2.79 ERA) is second in the NEWMAC with four saves, while both junior Connor Doan (1-0) and first-year Bobby Burk (0-0) have not allowed an earned run on the year. 
•    Burrows struck out two and allowed just one hit over 4.2 innings in Friday's loss to Salve Regina and has allowed just one earned run 18.2 innings out of the bullpen this spring.  

BEAVER BITES
•    Liss, Guest and graduate student Brant Savage lead the team with seven multi-hit games, Cushner has six and Santos has recorded at least two hits five times this spring. 
•    Sadowsky, Liss, Teator and Savage tied for the team lead with four multi-RBI games. 
•    Burrows ranks second in Division III in walks per nine innings (0.31), third in WHIP (0.69) and 11th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (10.00). 
•    Finkelstein is 2-0 with a 1.38 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 13.0 innings over his last two starts. 
•    Prior to Friday, the Beavers had been plunked at least twice in six consecutive outings and had been hit 16 times during this stretch. 
•    Santos became Babson's all-time leader passing Steve Tahmoush '08 with the 56th of his career in last week's win over Trinity.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 13-2 on the year when allowing five runs or fewer. 
•    Babson is 9-3 this season when recording more hits than its opponents. 
•    The Green and White is 4-3 this season and 17-7 since the start of last year in games decided by one or two runs. 
•    The Beavers are 4-2 this season against nationally-ranked foes and 6-1 at Govoni Field. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson will host Lasell on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.