No. 10 Men's Soccer at Oglethorpe
Sunday, September 14 | 1 p.m.
Oglethorpe Soccer, Lacrosse, Track and Field | Atlanta, Ga.
SERIES HISTORY
• Babson and Oglethrope will meet for the first time on Sunday afternoon in Atlanta.
SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 10 Babson (3-0-2) extended its unbeaten streak by rallying for a 2-2 draw with Covenant on Friday night.
• First-year
Will Boecher finished with a goal and an assist and classmate
Connor Hanrahan tied the game in the 83rd minute for the Beavers, who got three second-half saves from senior
Derek Polanco after falling behind 2-0 less than 19 minutes into the match.
• Senior
Alexander Yablonovskiy (3-1-7) has registered a point in four of the first five games to start the year, Hanrahan (3-0-6) and Boecher (2-2-6) have both registered one game-winning goal, and senior
James Modiano has scored once on the year.
• Polanco (1-0-2) owns a 0.80 goals against average and a .778 save percentage in two starts, while sophomore
JB Montague (2-0) has a 1.20 goals against average and a .750 save percentage to go along with one clean sheet in three starts.
SCOUTING THE STORMY PETRELS
• Oglethorpe (3-2-1) has won three of its last four games and is coming off a 4-1 victory over Belhaven on Wednesday night.
• Anthony Rouse tied the game in the 31st minute, Stanley Etienne scored the go-ahead marker in the 56th minute and Jackson Biggs and Nick Krull scored late goals for the Stormy Petrels, who got three assists from Owen VanMarter and four saves from goalkeeper Sebastian Lewis.
• VanMarter (4-5-13) has produced at least one point in five of the team's first six games, Biggs (2-1-5) has scored twice his last three outings and Ethan Martinez (1-3-5) and Angelo Nkosi (1-3-5) are tied for second on the team in assists and are two of nine players with at least one goal on the year.
• Lewis has started all six matches and owns a 1.27 goals against average to go along with a .731 save percentage and 19 saves.
GEORGIA ON MY MIND
• Friday's match versus Covenant was the Beavers' first in the state of Georgia in program history and the first against a member of the Collegiate Conference of the South (CSS).
• The Green and White also will face its first Southern Athletic Association (SAA) foe on Sunday when it takes on Oglethorpe.
• The weekend trip to Atlanta marks the furthest Babson has traveled in the regular season since flying to Chicago for games against Chicago and Aurora on September 6-7, 2008.
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
• Friday's draw against Covenant marked the first time that Babson has rallied from two goals down to pull even in regulation since the first round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament when it scored twice just over seven minutes apart to pull even with SUNY Oneonta before falling in overtime, 3-2.
• The Beavers also came back from a 2-0 deficit to draw 2-2 with MIT before losing to MIT in penalty kicks in the 2012 NEWMAC Tournament final, and beat Bridgewater State 3-2 in OT after doing down 2-0 early in the 2012 regular season.
COMING THROUGH IN THE CLUTCH
• After scoring the go-ahead goal four times in the 74th minute or later last season, the Beavers have produced four markers over the final 16 minutes over their last two games.
• Hanrahan and Boecher scored 97 seconds apart to give Babson a 2-0 lead in the 77th minute and Modiano followed with an 89th-minute tally in Tuesday's 3-1 win at Gordon, while Hanrahan netted the game-tying goal with 7:00 remaining on Friday against Covenant.
STREAKING BEAVERS
• Babson is unbeaten in 16 consecutive matches (13-0-3) going back to October of last season, which is the program's longest run without a loss since going unbeaten in 20 straight games back in 2011.
• The Green and White is 5-0-2 over its last seven games away from home.
• The Beavers also are unbeaten over their last 14 matches (7-0-7) in the month of September.
NUMBERS TO KNOW
• Babson is 3-0 when leading or tied at halftime this year and 0-0-2 when trailing.
• Seven of the Beavers' nine goals this season have been scored in the second half.
• The Green and White is 11-1-8 versus non-conference foes going back to the start of last season.
• Babson conceded two goals in Friday's draw with Covenant for just the third time in its last 38 contests.
UP NEXT
• The Beavers will wrap up their four-game road trip against Roger Williams on Wednesday night in Bristol, R.I.