No. 18 Men's Lacrosse at Coast Guard
Saturday, April 26 | 3 p.m. 
Cadet Memorial Field | New London, Conn. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 7-3 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to 2015.
•    The Beavers have won three straight and four of their last five meeting against the Bears going back to the 2021 NEWMAC Tournament final. 
•    Five of the 10 games played between the squads have been decided by three goals or fewer. 

LAST MEETING
•    Jared Rainville M'24 finished with four goals and one assist and graduate student Jacob Tauss scored three times to help the Beavers defeat Coast Guard, 13-7, on April 27, 2024, in Babson Park. 
•    Grey Sunderland '24 and James Turco M'24 won 16-of-24 face-offs and picked up 17 ground balls, senior Max Mallett contributed a goal and three assists, and Bryan Hanley '24 made 11 saves for Babson, which built an early 7-1 lead and opened the second half with a five-goal run to pull away. 
•    Eric Key (4g,1a) and Ryan Hunter (3g,2a) combined for 10 points, Jack Bragaw led all players with three caused turnovers and Matt Reheuser and Dustin Miller combined for 20 saves for the Bears, in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 18 USILA Babson (11-4, 5-1 NEWMAC) has won five of its last six games and is coming off a 19-3 rout of Clark last Saturday. 
•    Sophomore Sam Sisk scored three times, graduate student Justin Greene, junior Luke D'Orsi and sophomore Seamus Rooney all contributed two goals, and senior Brendan Maher finished with four ground balls and one caused turnover for the Beavers, who led 15-1 at halftime. 
•    Rooney (24-21-45) ranks fifth in the league in assists and eighth in points, sophomore Camden Matthews (28-7-35) leads the team with a .452 shooting percentage, Sisk (17-10-27) has six goals over the last three games, and junior Bennett Smith (13-12-25) is first on the team with five man-up goals. 
•    Junior Will Reading has won .527 percent of his face-offs (144-of-273), graduate student leads the defense with 44 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers, and senior goalkeeper Alex Fascilla ranks first in the league among qualified goalkeepers in both goals against average (8.71) and save percentage (.584) in 15 starts this spring. 

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•    Coast Guard (8-5, 3-3 NEWMAC) snapped a three-game losing streak with a 12-4 win at Emerson last Saturday. 
•    Eric Key scored four times, Ezekiel Crhsitian contributed two goals and one assist, and Mason Tucker won 14-of-14 face-offs and led all players with eight ground balls for the Bears, who built a 9-1 lead midway through the third quarter and were successful in killing off all five of the Lions' extra-man opportunities.
•    Key (36-20-56) is third in the conference in points and fourth in goals, Christian (31-18-49) owns a 13-game scoring streak and ranks fifth in the NEWMAC in points, and Ryan Hunter (24-19-43) is seventh in the conference in assists and 10th in points. 
•    Tucker ranks 11th in Division III winning .688 percent of his face-offs (179-of-260) in addition to ranking 28th in ground balls per game (8.31), Oliver Bolton leads the defense with 37 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers, and Dustin Miller owns a 9.74 goals against average and a .513 save percentage in 10 starts on the year. 

WHAT'S AT STAKE
•    Babson is locked into the second seed in next week's NEWMAC Tournament and will host a semifinal contest against either MIT or Salve Regina, who are currently tied for third place at 4-2, next Thursday. 
•    Coast Guard will be the fifth seed in next week's tournament and will travel to either MIT or Salve Regina for a quarterfinal on Tuesday. 

IN THE CLEAR
•    Babson enters Saturday's regular season finale ranked second in Division III with a .912 clearing percentage. 
•    The Beavers have converted 127-of-135 clears (94.1 percent) in league play and have gone 94-of-97 for a .969 conversion rate over their last four contests against Clark, Salve Regina, Emerson and Wheaton. 

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    Graduate student Topher Bower ranks third in program history with 87 assists and is ninth all-time with 152 points. 
•    Smith is sixth on the Beavers' all-time list with 72 assists, while Reading is one of six players in Babson history to win more than 200 face-offs. 
•    Graduate student Sammy Kalishman's 167 ground balls rank 12th all-time, Maher is 14th with 150 ground balls, and Fascilla is tied for fourth place all-time with 22 wins and is currently eighth with 380 saves, all but three of which have come over the last two seasons.

SPREADING OUT THE SCORING
•    Four players have contributed at least 10 points and 25 different players have scored a goal in the Beavers' first six NEWMAC games. 
•    Sisk and Rooney have each produced 17 points, Matthews leads the Green and White with 13 goals on 26 shots and Greene has contributed nine goals and three assists from 12 points. 
•    Babson, which has outscored its last four conference foes 64-24, has assisted on 48.2 percent of its goals in NEWMAC play. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Rooney enters Saturday's contest riding a 15-game points streak and has finished with at least one goal 13 times this spring.
•    The Beavers rank first in NEWMAC play in ground balls per game (35.67) and are second in scoring offense (14.17), scoring defense (7.83) and face-off winning percentage (.572). 
•    The Green and White has outscored its first six conference foes 51-28 in the first half. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 8-0 this season and 23-1 over the last two seasons when winning at least half the faceoffs. 
•    Babson is 7-0 on the year when leading after the first quarter. 
•    The Green and White 11-0 when scoring at least 10 goals and 7-0 when allowing eight goals or fewer.
•    The Beavers are 8-0 this season when recording at least eight caused turnovers. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson will host a NEWMAC Tournament semifinal on Thursday at 7 p.m.