No. 11 Men's Tennis vs. MIT
Friday, April 4 | 3:30 p.m.
Babson Tennis Courts | Babson Park, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson owns just three wins in 62 all-time matches against MIT in a series that dates back to the 1983-84 campaign. 
• The Beavers have dropped three straight matches against the Engineers going back to the 2023 NEWMAC final.
• The only win for the Green and White over MIT in the last decade was a 6-3 verdict on April 14, 2023.

LAST MEETING
• No. 29 Babson suffered a 5-0 loss to No. 21 MIT in the NEWMAC Tournament final on April 28, 2024 at the DuPont Tennis Courts in Cambridge.
• Up 3-0 after sweeping the doubles, the Engineers picked up their first singles point at number six when Shrish Choudhary posed a 6-1, 6-3 win, and Ryan Xiao was victorious at number three, 6-0, 3-6, 6-2, to clinch the victory.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 11 Babson (12-2, 3-0 NEWMAC) sailed past Coast Guard, 7-0, in a conference match on Tuesday at the Babson Tennis Courts.
• Senior Ole Lepsoe, junior Alexander Weber, and sophomores Louis Bourn and Mattias Harrell all produced points in both singles and doubles in the win. Senior Brady Anderson and first-year Sabastian Mendoza also posted wins in singles for the Beavers, and juniors Martin Mejia and Alexander Merson were on winning doubles teams for the Green and White.
• First-year Edward Wang is 18-2 overall and 9-2 in dual matches with five wins at number three singles, Mendoza (13-7) is 10-3 in dual matches, Harrell (10-2) is 7-0 in dual matches and Merson has won his last six outings to improve to 10-5 overall.
• Lepsoe and Merson are 6-2 at number one doubles, Anderson and Mendoza have gone 5-2 at number two and the pairing of Zhang and Wang is 4-3 at number three with victories in four of its last five matches. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
• MIT (5-4, 3-0 NEWMAC) has won its last two matches with NEWMAC victories over Wheaton (7-0) on March 22 and Springfield (6-1) on Wednesday in Cambridge.
• The Engineers swept the doubles against Springfield, with first-year Youngwoo Tahk and graduate student Joseph Li needing a tiebreaker at number three. MIT captured singles matches in the top five flights, with grad student Kailas Kahler, sophomore Siddharth Marathe, grad student Tim Schmedding, and juniors Jeremy Yu and Nicholas Liu all winning in straight sets.
• Kahler, the two-time NEWMAC Player of the Year, is 4-2 in dual matches this year, all at number one, while Xiao is 3-1 at number two and 5-1 overall. Marathe is 6-0 in duals, including 3-0 at number five, and Choudhary is 5-3 overall, including 3-2 at number four.
• Sophomore Grant Gallagher and first-year SangHyuk Im have played in the number one doubles slot in eight matches, going 3-5, while Adam Sun and Li are 3-3 at number two.

MOVIN' ON UP
• Already the highest-ranked team in program history, the Beavers jumped from 13th to 11th in the most recent ITA Division III poll released on Wednesday.
• The previous high for the Beavers prior to this season was 16th, earned in the first two polls of 2024. 

NEWMAC ELITE
• Babson and MIT have met in the NEWMAC Tournament final in nine of the past 11 years.
• The Engineers and Beavers were picked 1-2 in the NEWMAC preseason poll that was released prior to the start of the season.
• MIT has captured 24 conference titles and has defeated the Beavers in 20 post-season matches.

BABSON VS. THE NEWMAC
• The Beavers have won their last six NEWMAC regular season matches by a combined scored of 45-3 dating back to last season.
• The Green and White are 15-1 against conference opponents in the regular season going back to the start of the 2022-23 season.

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 10 doubles victories, Wang also is just two shy of Jon Martin's '05 single-season record of 30 combined wins set back in 2003-04.
• Additionally, Anderson (12), Lepsoe (12)and Merson (12) are just four wins away from matching the Beavers' single-season record of 16 held by Martin (2003-04), Mike Brooks '05 (2003-04), Brandon Rosenbluth '18 (2016-17) and Parker Law '23 (2022-23).

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will continue their four-match home stand on Monday with a make-up match against Salve Regina at 3:00 p.m. at the Babson Tennis Courts.