No. 11 Men's Tennis
vs. Wheaton | Wednesday, April 16 | 3:30 p.m. 
vs. Salve Regina | Thursday, April 17 | 3:30 p.m. 
Babson Tennis Courts | Babson Park, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    Babson will continue its stretch of three matches in three days when it hosts Wheaton on Wednesday and Salve Regina on Thursday in Babson Park. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. Wheaton
•    Babson is 24-10 all-time against the Lyons in a series that dates back to 1996.
•    The Beavers have won 13 straight matches in the series and 16 of their last 18 contests against Wheaton dating back to 2008. 
•    Senior Ole Lepsoe and sophomore Mattias Harrell were two of six players to record victories in both singles and doubles as the Green and White cruised to a 9-0 triumph over Wheaton last April. 

vs. Salve Regina
•    Babson is 8-4 all-time against Salve Regina in a series that dates back to 2001. 
•    The Beavers have won their last five matches against the Seahawks, which includes last year's 9-0 victory that included both singles and doubles wins from Harrell and junior Martin Mejia in the first matchup between the programs as conference foes. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 11 Babson (14-2, 4-0 NEWMAC) has won three straight matches after defeating 36th-ranked Brandeis, 5-2, on Tuesday afternoon in Waltham, Mass.
•    Junior Alexander Merson and first-year Sebastian Mendoza were winners in both singles and doubles, and Harrell and senior Wesley Zhang recorded straight-set singles victories for the Beavers. 
•    First-year Edward Wang is 18-4 overall and 5-3 at number three singles, Mendoza is 15-7 overall and 12-3 in dual matches, and Merson has won eight consecutive matches to improve to 12-5 on the year. 
•    Merson and Lepsoe are 8-2 at number one doubles, Mendoza and senior Brady Anderson have gone 7-2 at number two and Zhang and Wang own a 4-3 mark at number three this spring. 

SCOUTING THE LYONS
•    Wheaton (3-9, 2-3 NEWMAC) snapped a four-match skid with a 7-0 win over Salve Regina last Friday. 
•    Jaime Galligo, Pablo Munoz, Jake Murry, Calvin Van Dyke and Paul Berteaux all recorded victories in both singles and doubles for the Lyons, who did not drop a game in doubles while winning all six singles matches in straight sets. 
•    Galligo is 7-5 at number one singles and is riding a three-match winning streak, Munoz is 4-5 at number three singles and Murray has gone 4-4 this spring at fourth and fifth singles. 
•    Galligo and Munoz are 1-1 at number one doubles, and Van Dyke and Murray have gone 3-6 at number two as Wheaton has dropped all nine matches when trailing after doubles on the year. 

SCOUTING THE SEAHAWKS
•    Salve Regina (0-9, 0-4), which faces Clark on Wednesday, is coming a 7-0 loss to Emerson on Sunday night. 
•    Jacob Faulise and Samuel Middleton picked up the Seahawks' only victory of the match, defeating Connor Leung and Filippo Nocchi 6-4 at number one doubles. 
•    Salve Regina, which has dropped 27 consecutive matches dating back to April 23, has trailed after doubles in every contest this season. 
•    The team's lone point in singles against conference foes came back on March 22 when Alexander Colon rallied for a 3-6, 7-6 (9-7), 10-8 victory at number three singles in a 6-1 loss to Coast Guard. 

BEAVERS SWEEP NEWMAC WEEKLY HONORS
•    Anderson was selected as the singles player of the week and duo of Lepsoe and Merson garnered doubles team of the week recognition as Babson swept the NEWMAC weekly awards for the third time this spring back on April 7. 
•    Anderson went 2-0 at number two singles, which included a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5) victory over MIT's Ryan Xiao, while Lepsoe and Merson won both their matches at number one doubles to help the Green and White take sole possession of first place in the league standings. 

RISING UP THE RECORD BOOKS
•    Wang's 18 singles wins are one shy of the program's single-season record set by David Weisman '98, who finished a perfect 19-0 back in 1998 on the way to capturing the program's only NCAA Division III singles title. 
•    Coupled with his 11 doubles victories, Wang also is just one shy of Jon Martin's '05 single-season record of 30 combined wins set back in 2003-04.
•    Additionally, Anderson (14), Lepsoe (14) and Merson (14) are just two wins away from matching the Beavers' single-season record of 16 doubles wins held by Martin (2003-04), Mike Brooks '05 (2003-04), Brandon Rosenbluth '18 (2016-17) and Parker Law '23 (2022-23).

PLAYOFF PUSH
•    Babson is the lone unbeaten in the NEWMAC standings entering the final week of regular-season play and can earn at least a share of its second title in three years with victories over Wheaton and Salve Regina. 
•    MIT (4-1) and Springfield (4-1), which hosts the Beavers on Saturday, have joined the Green and White in clinching a spot in next week's NEWMAC Tournament, while Wheaton (2-3, Emerson (2-3) and Clark (2-3) are currently tied for the league's final two playoff spots. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson's 14 wins are tied for the second most in single-season program history alongside the 2014-15, 2018-19 and 2023-24 squads, and are just three away from the program record of 17 victories set back in 2022-23. 
•    The Beavers have won 10 consecutive matches at both number four and number five singles dating back to March 16. 
•    The Green and White is 13-0 this season when leading after doubles. 

UP NEXT
•    Following its midweek home matches, Babson travels to Springfield on Saturday at 11 a.m.