Women's Soccer at Springfield | Saturday, September 20 | 1 p.m. | Brock-Affleck Field | Springfield, Mass. 
vs. Hamilton | Sunday, September 21 | 12 p.m. | Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    The Babson women's soccer team will travel to Springfield for its NEWMAC opener on Saturday before returning to Hartwell-Rogers Field for its final non-conference home match of the season on Sunday versus Hamilton. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. Springfield
•    Babson is 8-19-6 all-time against Springfield in a series that dates back to 1998.
•    The sides have split their last four meetings with one win apiece and a pair of draws since 2021. 
•    The Beavers are 2-1-4 on the road versus the Pride over the last decade, which includes a 1-1 draw in 2023 and a 0-0 2OT stalemate back in 2021. 

vs. Hamilton
•    First meeting

LAST TIME OUT VS. SPRINGFIELD
•    Elisa Diletizia '25 scored a pair of goals including the game-winner in the 87th minute as the Beavers defeated Springfield, 3-2, on October 30, 2024, in Babson Park. 
•    Diletizia scored 61 seconds into the match and Laura Lukowicz '25 made it 2-0 in the 14th minute for the Beavers, who got three saves from Nora Ryan '25 and went in front for good on Diletizia's second goal with 3:59 remaining in the contest. 
•    Merideth Healy scored in the 20th minute and Olivia Raucci tied the game in the 85th minute for the Pride, which finished with a 14-11 edge in shots.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (1-0-3) remained unbeaten with a 0-0 draw against Endicott on Tuesday afternoon. 
•    Senior Cleo Grignard and junior Callahan Cottone each made a save for the Beavers, who finished with an 11-4 edge in shots while keeping their second consecutive clean sheet. 
•    Junior Mack Feeney and sophomore Josie Lee have each scored once on the year, while first-year Autumn Simon has one assist for the Green and White. 
•    Cottone (0-0-1) has started all four matches and boasts a 0.40 goals against average and a .900 save percentage, while Grignard (1-0-2) has stopped all nine shots she has faced in 135 minutes of action over three matches this fall.

SCOUTING THE PRIDE
•    Springfield (1-4-0) picked up its first win of the season by blanking Framingham State 2-0 on Wednesday night. 
•    Katie McFerran and Kaitlyn Suller both provided a goal and an assist and Mallory Forgatch finished with five saves for the Pride, which scored twice in the first 26 minutes and recorded season highs in both shots (17) and corner kicks (11). 
•    McFerran (3-1-7) and Suller (2-1-5) have combined for all five of the team's goals, while Olivia Beach, Peyton Knott and Kayla McGrath have each contributed an assist. 
•    Forgatch (1-3) has started five of Springfield's first six games and owns a 2.67 goals against average and a .745 save percentage to go along with one shutout. 

SCOUTING THE CONTINENTALS
•    Hamilton (2-2-1) is unbeaten over its last three games and defeated Utica, 1-0, on Wednesday afternoon. 
•    The Continentals held a 31-1 edge in shots including 13-1 on goal and scored the go-ahead marker in the 81st minute when Maddie Buck's cross was misplayed by a Pioneers' defender for an own goal. 
•    Diana Baffor (1-1-3) has the team's lone game-winning goal, while Sarah Flood, Isabel Harvey and Maddie Ledbury have all tallied once over the first five matches. 
•    Nieve Tonna (1-2-1) has made four starts and owns a 1.25 goals against average and a .800 save percentage. 

FEENEY EARNS NEWMAC WEEKLY HONOR
•    After scoring her first collegiate goal in Saturday's win over Rowan, Feeney was selected as the league's offensive player of the week on Monday. 
•    She is the Beavers' first NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week selection since October 23, 2023, when Jordyn Ferrantino '25 was recognized. 

COMFORTS OF HOME
•    The Beavers are unbeaten over their last seven games (6-0-2) at Hartwell-Rogers Field dating back to October 12 of last season while outscoring their opponents 14-3. 
•    In 16 games going back to October 18, 2023, the Green and White is 11-3-3 at home with a pair of wins over nationally-ranked foes. 

NEWMAC KNOWLEDGE
•    Babson, which advanced to the conference tournament semifinals last season, received one first-place vote and was picked to finish second while Springfield came in third when the NEWMAC released its preseason coaches' poll back in August. 
•    The Beavers went 5-3-3 and finished fourth in the league standings in 2024 after setting a single-season program record with eight wins in 2023.
•    Going back to the start of the 2022 campaign, the Green and White is 23-8-7 versus league foes, which includes a 6-4-3 road record over the last two seasons.

BEAVER BITES
•    Junior center back Claudia Baiter and junior midfielder Priscilla-Rose Men-Martin enter the weekend as the only two players to play all 90 minutes in each of Babson's first four games. 
•    Grignard made a career-high six saves in last Saturday's 1-0 win over then-No. 7 Rowan. 
•    The Beavers earned 14 corner kicks in their 1-1 draw at Union on September 6 but have attempted just one in each of their last two matches. 
•  Men-Martin will have the opportunity to play against her sister, Hamilton first-year Elaina-Rose Men-Martin, when the Beavers and Continentals meet on Sunday. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 8-0-3 going back to the start of last season when scoring the first goal of the match. 
•    Babson is 9-2-8 since the start of the 2024 campaign when it goes into halftime tied or with the lead. 
•    Going back to last year, 11 of the Beavers' last 13 games have been decided by one goal or finished deadlocked. 
•    The Beavers are 3-0-6 in their last eight games in the month of September. 

UP NEXT 
•    Babson hosts Coast Guard next Saturday at 1 p.m.