No. 10 Men's Soccer vs. Covenant (Ga.)
Friday, September 12 | 6 p.m.
Oglethorpe Soccer Field | Atlanta, Ga.

WHAT TO KNOW
• Babson heads to Atlanta for a pair of non-conference games, beginning on Friday with a 6 p.m. kickoff against Covenant (Ga.).
• The Beavers will match up against host Oglethorpe (Ga.) on Sunday at 1 p.m. to wrap up the trip.

SERIES HISTORY
• First career meeting

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 10 Babson (3-0-1) remains unbeaten on the season after posting a 3-1 victory over Gordon on Tuesday evening in Wenham, Mass.
• First-year Will Boecher recorded his first career points with a goal and an assist and junior James Modiano and first-year Connor Hanrahan both added goals in the win.  Junior Alexander Yablonovskiy contributed an assist for the Beavers, and sophomore goalkeeper JB Montague made two saves to win his second consecutive start. 
• Yablonovskiy (3-1-7) extended his points streak to four games and is tied for second in the NEWMAC this fall in goals and points. Hanrahan (2-0-4) has scored in two of his first four collegiate games and Boecher (1-1-3) is third on the team in scoring.
• Senior Derek Polanco (1-0-1, 1.00 GAA) and Montague (2-0-0, 0.50 GAA) have each started two games in goal for the Green and White. 

SCOUTING THE SCOTS
• Covenant (2-1-1) earned a 1-1 draw against No. 4 Washington & Lee in its last outing last Friday in Lexington, Va.
• Junior Jackson Bostrom scored from distance to tie the match in the 82nd minute for the Scots and sophomore Henry Parker and first-year Sam Conrad were credited with assists. Senior Eli Honeycutt tallied a career-high nine saves in the deadlock.
• Bostrom (2-1-5) has the early team lead in scoring, and Parker and senior Whitt Tisdale have a goal and an assist apiece. Sophomores Lyndon Tucker and Jonathan Welsh each have one goal, and Honeycutt has a 1.29 goals against average with 15 saves in four starts this fall.
• The Scots finished 12-3-3 last season after suffering a 2-0 loss to Belhaven (Miss.) in the championship game of the Collegiate Conference of the South Tournament.

HELLO ATLANTA
• Friday's game is the first in the state of Georgia in the history of the Babson's men's soccer program.
• The trip to Atlanta is the furthest Babson has traveled for road games since playing at Chicago and Aurora (Ill.) back on September 6-7, 2008.
• Friday's game against Covenant will be Babson's first against any member of the Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS).

QUALITY DEPTH
• The Beavers have 17 players who have started at least one game this season, with senior Liam Goldstein, juniors Will Lloyd and Yablonovskiy, sophomores Henry Bacon and Maxi Martinez, and first-year Blake Miller the only ones who've been in all four starting line-ups.
• Modiano and Boecher have gotten the starting nod in three outings, and seniors Joao Araujo and Polanco, juniors Ted Rosenfeld and Ben Cosentino, and Montague were in the starting XI twice each.

STREAKING BEAVERS
• With the win over Gordon, Babson is unbeaten in its last 15 games (13-0-2) dating back to last season.
• The current unbeaten streak is the Beavers' longest since 2011 when the Green and White bounced back from an 0-2 start by going 20 straight matches without a loss (16-0-4) on the way to reaching the NCAA Tournament sectional semifinals.
• The Beavers are unbeaten over their last five road matches going back to last year (4-0-1) and are 12-1-11 away from home dating back to September 14, 2023.

BEAVER BITES
• Yablonovskiy is the first Babson player to score a goal in each of the team's first three games since Eric Anderson '13 produced four goals over the first three outings of the 2012 campaign.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• The Beavers are 20-0-3 since the start of last season when scoring the opening goal of the match. 
• The Green and White has limited 34 of its last 36 opponents to one goal or fewer going back to October 14, 2023. 
• Babson is unbeaten in its last 14 fixtures (9-0-5) in the month of September going back to 2023. 

UP NEXT
• Babson will kick off against Oglethorpe (Ga.) on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Atlanta.