Baseball vs. WPI
Saturday, April 19 | 12 p.m. (DH)
Govoni Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 57-25 all-time against WPI in a series that dates back to 1983. 
•    The Beavers had their seven-game winning streak snapped in game one of last year's doubleheader, but has won 12 of their last 14 contests versus the Engineers since 2018. 
•    The Green and White has gone 9-1 against WPI at Govoni Field going back to 2018. 

LAST MEETING
•    John Nowak M'24, senior Jack Julian and sophomore Alexander Wilson finished with four hits apiece and combined to drive in eight runs to help the Beavers beat WPI 19-4 in eight innings in game two of a doubleheader in Babson Park on April 21, 2024.
•    Luke Tanner M'24 finished 3-for-5 with a double, a triple, a homer and three RBI, and Ike Kiely '24 singled twice and knocked in a pair of runs for the Beavers, who racked up 20 hits and had nine different players drive in a run.  
•    Andrew Cash hit a two-run homer and L Keblin recorded an RBI double for the Engineers, who defeated the Beavers 4-3 in the opening game of the twin bill behind eight shutout innings from Owen Radcliffe. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (17-8, 4-4 NEWMAC) has won three consecutive games and is coming off a 16-6 seven-inning victory over UMass Dartmouth on Thursday afternoon. 
•    Junior Chris Basile doubled, tripled and drove in a career-high five runs, sophomore Jack Moses had four RBI and senior Justin Guest went 2-for-4 with a double, two walks, and RBI and four runs scored for the Beavers, who got at least one hit from all nine starters. 
•    Junior Zander Teator is batting .383 with three homers, six doubles, 19 RBI and 15 runs scored, Guest has raised his average to .358 with 11 doubles, two home runs, 13 RBI and 25 runs scored, and sophomore Ryan Liss is hitting .313 with four home runs, six doubles, 23 RBI and 23 runs scored. 
•    Junior Jason Finkelstein is 2-0 with a 3.77 ERA and 20 strikeouts in 28.2 innings pitched, graduate student Tristen Spalter (2-3, 5.74 ERA) has 22 strikeouts against just eight walks in 31.1 innings, and the bullpen duo of Teator (4 saves, 2.53 ERA, 10.2 IP) and senior Luke McClintock (1-0, 1.80 ERA, 10 IP) have combined to hold opposing hitters to a .168 average this spring. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    WPI (12-16, 1-7 NEWMAC) snapped its seven-game losing streak by finishing off a 19-8 win over Emerson on Thursday that was suspended due to weather on Tuesday afternoon. 
•    Cash, Tommy Burns, Jonathan Lattimer and Jacob Wiberg all homered and combined for 10 hits and 15 RBI in support of Dominic Monico, who allowed two runs over 4.2 innings of relief to improve to 2-3 on the year with the win for the Engineers. 
•    Burns is batting .418 with nine doubles, four home runs, 10 stolen bases, 27 RBI and 33 runs scored, Cash is hitting .373 with eight doubles, four homers, 28 RBI and 19 runs scored, and Lattimer boasts a .345 average to go along with three doubles, two homers and 23 runs batted in. 
•    Luke Blandino is 2-2 with a 4.85 ERA and 29 strikeouts in 29.2 innings pitched, DC Brown is 1-4 with a 6.67 earned run average to go along with 35 strikeouts in 27.0 innings, and Brian Riley is 3-2 with 22 strikeouts over 25.2 innings in 10 appearances on the season. 

THE GUEST LIST
•    In four games this week, Guest is batting .625 (10-for-16) with four doubles, three RBI and seven runs scored. 
•    He has multiple hits and at least one run scored in four straight games, and has at least one double in each of the last three outings. 
•    In addition to his work at the plate, Guest had a season-high three stolen bases in Thursday's win and has swiped four bags in four games this week. 

PROVIDING RELIEF
•    The trio of junior Connor Doan, classmate Vinnie Purpura and sophomore Tristan Pearl have combined to go 3-0 with a 0.82 ERA and a 0.82 WHIP in 11.0 innings of work out of the bullpen this week.
•    Doan struck out two and gave up just two hits over 4.2 scoreless innings to earn the win against Lasell on Tuesday, Pearl allowed one run over 3.0 innings in his first appearance of the year to pick up his second career victory on Wednesday at Tufts, and Purpura tossed 3.1 shutout innings that included three strikeouts to improve to 2-2 with the win over UMass Dartmouth on Thursday. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Liss and graduate student Tanner Santos has both reached base safely in 19 straight games, while Teator owns an 11-game on-base streak entering Saturday's twin bill.
•    Guest has a hit in five straight outings and has reached base safely in 13 consecutive games, while Julian and Wilson have both reached safely in seven contests in a row. 
•    Senior Walter Sadowsky has at least one hit in 11 consecutive starts, although he lost his 11-game hitting streak in a sixth-inning pinch-hit appearance on Thursday.  

BEAVER BITES
•    Babson has 32 hit batsmen over the last 11 games, which includes getting plunked a season-high seven times at Tufts on Wednesday. 
•    Julian and Guest both swiped three bags and the Beavers' 10 stolen bases on Thursday against UMass Dartmouth are their most since finishing with 10 in a 2014 win over Roger Williams. 
•    The Beavers have at least one extra-base hit in all 25 games this season and have worked at least one walk in 38 consecutive outings going back to April 27 of last year. 
•    The Babson pitching staff has allowed just 12 extra-base hits over the last nine games. 
•    The Green and White has allowed five runs or fewer in 10 of its last 12 outings. 
•    The Beavers have played error-free baseball in back-to-back games in wins over Tufts and UMass Dartmouth for the first time this season.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson is 8-2 this season and 29-5 since the start of the 2024 campaign at Govoni Field. 
•    The Beavers are 15-0 on the year when leading after six innings. 
•    The Green and White is 12-3 this spring when allowing five or fewer runs. 
•    The Beavers are 4-4 in games decided by one or two runs this season.

UP NEXT
•    Babson travels to Wheaton on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.