Women's Volleyball at Wheaton
Tuesday, September 23 | 7 p.m. 
Emerson Gymnasium | Norton, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY 
•    Babson is 23-32 all-time against Wheaton in a series that dates back to 1980. 
•    The Beavers have won seven straight and 11 of their last 12 matches against the Lyons since 2013. 
•    The Green and White is 5-1 in its last five trips to Norton, which includes a four-set victory back in 2023. 

LAST MEETING
•    Lauren Gips '25 led all players with 10 kills and junior Hailey Fouche added nine kills and three blocks to help the Beavers defeat Wheaton in three sets, 25-16, 25-17, 25-14, on October 5, 2024, in Babson Park. 
•    Senior Isabella Allen contributed seven kills, junior Nora Whitehurst led all players with four blocks and classmate Zoe Ackerman handed out 32 assists for Babson, which hit .244 in the victory. 
•    Mary Caroline Mazzanti finished with five kills, Ajsa Orban contributed 13 assists and two aces, and Jackie Hochberg led all players with 13 digs in the loss for the Lyons. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (6-3, 0-0 NEWMAC) has won two consecutive matches after beating the University of New England 3-1 on Saturday. 
•    Junior Angelina Holm had nine kills and five blocks, Allen added eight kills and Ackerman finished with 34 assists and 11 digs for the Beavers, who hit a blistering .478 to pull away in the fourth set. 
•    Allen (2.86 kills/set) has recorded at least eight kills in five straight matches, junior Allison Molendyk is averaging 2.25 kills per set and Fouche is contributing 2.13 kills and 1.26 digs. 
•    Holm is averaging 1.00 blocks per set, Ackerman is handing out 7.94 assists per set and leads the squad with 28 service aces, and senior Sophia Shaw is contributing a team-best 3.65 digs per set. 

SCOUTING THE LYONS
•    Wheaton (6-6, 0-0 NEWMAC) has won back-to-back matches and is coming off a three-set sweep of Keene State on Saturday. 
•    Celina Henn led all players with nine kills, Julia Wingler contributed seven kills and a match-high six blocks, and Hochberg finished with 18 digs and three service aces for the Lyons, who hit .242 and totaled 11 aces in the victory. 
•    Henn (3.20 k/s, 2.07 d/s) is hitting .225, Sydney Lyon is averaging 2.98 kills and 2.02 digs, and Mazzanti (1.79 k/s) has recorded at least eight kills in four of her last five matches. 
•    Julia Wingler leads the team with 30 total blocks, Orban is handing out 6.38 assists per set and Hochberg is averaging 4.02 digs per set on the year. 

NEWMAC KNOWLEDGE
•    Babson has opened NEWMAC play with a win in 11 consecutive seasons (excluding 2021) going back to 2012. 
•    The Beavers have finished no worse than fourth in the conference standings in 11 straight years dating back to 2013, and last season's tie for fourth place snapped a streak of 10 consecutive top-three finishes.  
•    The Green and White was picked third behind last year's defending regular season champions MIT and reigning NEWMAC Tournament champion Smith, while Wheaton was tabbed to finish eighth. 

THE LONGEST SET
•    The Beavers set a new record for the longest game in program history when they outlasted Lasell 38-36 in the opening stanza of Friday's three-set sweep. 
•    Babson served to close out the game 10 times and Lasell had four set points in a frame that featured 20 ties and 10 lead changes, and no lead bigger than three points by either side. 
•    The 74 total points in the opening frame against Lasell eclipsed the previous mark of 66 in a 34-32 third-set victory over UMass Boston in 2001, a 34-32 fourth-set loss to Mount Holyoke in 2003 and a 34-32 third-set triumph over WPI in 2004. All three of these matches were played in an era when each set was played to 30 points. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Holm has recorded at least one block in 15 straight matches dating back to the end of the 2024 campaign, while first-year Ailsa Munro has finished with a block in five consecutive outings.
•    Ackerman has doled out 24 or more assists in all nine matches this fall.
•    Allen and Fouche have both registered seven or more kills in five consecutive outings. 
•    Shaw has at least one service ace in nine consecutive matches and 14 or more digs in four of the Beavers' last five contests. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson ranks 30th in Division III with a .228 hitting percentage and has hit better than .200 in all six of its wins on the year.
•    The Beavers are 6-2 this fall when taking the opening set of the match.
•    The Green and White is 4-1 this season and 101-4 dating back to 2019 when holding its foes to a hitting percentage of .150 or lower. 
•    Babson is 5-1 on the year when recording at least 10 service aces. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers travel to Smith on Saturday for a 1 p.m. match.