Men's Soccer vs. No. 22 Tufts
Tuesday, September 30 | 4 p.m. 
Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 9-10-3 all-time against Tufts in a series that dates back to 1965. 
•    The sides have split their last five matches going back to 2019, which includes three consecutive draws. 
•    The Beavers and Jumbos have finished deadlocked after 90 minutes in four consecutive matches including the 2021 contest that Tufts won in overtime before it was abolished in the regular season. 
•    Babson and the Jumbos have combined to score just three goals over their last five meetings. 

LAST MEETING
•    In a battle of unbeaten sides, Babson and Tufts traded goals over the final 10-plus minutes and finished in a 1-1 draw on October 1, 2024, in Medford, Mass.
•    The Beavers took a 1-0 lead on junior Alexander Yablonovskiy's marker in the 80th minute but Xavier Canfin headed home a corner kick from Liam Gerken for the equalizer in the 89th minute. 
•    Walker White '25 made four saves for the Green and White, while Nikola Antic turned away three shots for the Jumbos, who finished with a 16-11 edge in shots. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (5-3-2) snapped a three-game skid by opening NEWMAC play with a 3-1 win at Springfield on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Senior James Modiano's corner kick was headed in by a Pride defender to open the scoring in the eighth minute, junior Huey Miller notched his first career goal in the 28th minute and classmate Will Lloyd tacked on a late insurance marker for the Beavers, who got six saves from sophomore goalkeeper JB Montague. 
•    Yablonovskiy (4-1-9) scored in last Tuesday's 2-1 loss at Amherst, first-years Will Boecher (2-3-7) and Connor Hanrahan (3-0-6) have combined for 13 points, and Lloyd (2-1-5) has a point in three straight matches. 
•    Montague (4-1) has started six games and owns a 1.09 goals against average and a .818 save percentage to go along with two shutouts, while senior Derek Polanco (1-2-2) has a 1.11 goals against average and a .722 save percentage in five appearances. 

SCOUTING THE JUMBOS
•    No. 22 Tufts (5-1-2) extended its unbeaten streak to six games with a 1-1 draw against Wesleyan on Saturday. 
•    Henry Brown headed home a service from Canfin in the 11th minute before the Cardinals pulled in the 73rd minute of a game that featured just three shots on target. 
•    Brown (4-0-8) and Henry Perkins (3-2-8) have combined for seven goals, Canfin (2-2-6) is one of three players tied for the team lead in assists, and Gianluca Fallone (2-1-5) and Ben Ortman (2-1-5) both scored twice in a season-opening win over MIT. 
•    Antic (5-1-2) has started all eight matches and boasts a 0.79 goals against average to go along with a .600 save percentage and two shutouts for Tufts defense that has allowed more than three shots on goal just once this fall. 

BEAVERS VS. THE NESCAC
•    No. 22 Tufts is the last of three NESCAC foes Babson will face this season after beating Wesleyan 1-0 on September 6 and losing at No. 13 Amherst 2-1 last Tuesday. 
•    The Beavers are 3-3-5 against the NESCAC in 11 matches since 2023, which includes a 2-1-2 mark at Hartwell-Rogers Field. 

HISTORY LESSON
•    Babson, which recorded the program's 700th win back on September 14 at Oglethorpe, captured the NCAA's first Division III national championship 50 years with a 1-0 win over Brockport State on November 30, 1975. 
•    The national title was the first in Babson history and the first of three in six seasons for the Beavers, who also captured back-to-back championships in 1979 and 1980. 
•    Only Messiah (11), UNC Greensboro (5), which moved to Division I in 1991, and Tufts (4) have won more Division III national championships than Babson's three. 
•    Head coach Jon Anderson '75 and Bob Hartwell and Bill Rogers, for which Babson's home field is named, have accounted for 681 of the program's 701 victories. Anderson ranks second among active coaches and 13th all-time on the Division III list with 476 wins, Hartwell went 118-34-14 from 1967-77 and Rogers was 87-23-15 from 1978-84. 

HOME FIELD SUCCESS
•    Despite having its 22-game unbeaten streak snapped in a 2-1 loss to Brandeis on September 20, the Beavers have been superb at Hartwell-Rogers Field over the last four seasons. 
•    The Green and White is 30-3-7 in its last home 40 games going back to September 3, 2022, and has not dropped back-to-back matches at Hartwell-Rogers Field since falling to Rutgers-Newark and William Paterson on September 3-4, 2016. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Lloyd and first-year Blake Miller are the only players to be part of the starting XI in each of the first 10 games for Babson, which has started 22 different players on the year. 
•    Babson's victory on Saturday at Springfield was its 10th in a row against a NEWMAC foe and extended its conference unbeaten streak to 33 matches. 
•    The Green and White has scored 10 of its 15 goals this season in the second half including seven beyond the 74th minute. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 5-1 this season and 22-1-3 since the start of the 2024 campaign when scoring the opening goal of the game. 
•    Babson is 3-0-1 this fall and unbeaten in its last 16 matches when scoring two or more goals. 
•    The Green and White is 22-1-8 when conceding one goal or fewer dating back to the start of last season.
•    Since 2021, the Beavers are 30-2-2 when leading at halftime. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson hosts Clark on Saturday at 1 p.m.