BABSON PARK, Mass.— Senior Danny Cavanagh (Warwick, R.I.) tallied a career-high four points on two goals and two assists, junior Sean Senier (Melrose, Mass.) added a career-high three points on a goal and two assists, and 11 different players notched at least one point as No. 9 Babson College defeated Western Connecticut State University, 7-2, in Little East Conference men's ice hockey action Friday evening inside the Babson Skating Center.

With the victory, Babson has won three in a row and six of its last seven to improve to 13-2-2 overall and 8-1-1 in the LEC. WestConn, which is in its first year as a varsity program, has dropped eight in a row to slide to 1-16-0 overall and 0-10-0 in conference play.

Seniors Egan Schmitt (Schuylerville, N.Y.) and Mike Stevens (Massapequa, N.Y.), junior Jimmy Fallon (Milton, Mass.) and first-year Luke Corrigan (Hudson, Mass.) scored goals for the Beavers. Seniors Will Holland (Charlotte, N.C.) and Charlie Andriole (Branford, Conn.) and sophomore Evan Brown (Little Silver, N.J.) contributed two assists apiece, and senior Brendan Kennedy (Georgetown, Ont.) and junior CJ Beals (Chelmsford, Mass.) chipped in with one assist each. Junior Mason Rosado (Weddington, N.C.) finished with 18 saves in goal to record the victory.

Sophomore Phil Parker (Rehoboth, Mass.) led the Wolves with a goal and an assist and first-year Scott McNulty (Williamstown, N.J.) scored once in the setback, while sophomores Victor-Antoine Fortier (Sherbrooke, Que.) and Jack Graham (Burnaby, B.C.) and first-year Francis Rose (Clarkston, Mich.) each had assists. First-year Liam Lane (Castle Rock, Colo.) made 31 saves in goal in the first 40 minutes and classmate Malte Hedlund (Skelleflea, Sweden) came on and made 10 saves in the third period.

The Beavers jumped on top with a pair of goals just 58 seconds apart in the opening period. Schmitt opened the scoring with a power play goal at 6:15, collecting a loose puck in the slot after a shot from the point by Andriole was blocked and firing a shot inside the left post. Senier doubled the lead at 7:13, tucking a shot inside the left post from the left circle after a cross from the right boards by Cavanagh to make it 2-0.

The hosts pulled away with three unanswered goals in the middle frame. Kennedy slid a nice pass from behind the net to Stevens in the slot and Stevens beat Lane between the pads at 3:19 for a 3-0 margin.

Babson caught WestConn on a line change in the middle of the period that created an odd-man rush, and Brown sent a pass from the right circle to Fallon on the far post and Fallon finished off his team-leading 10th goal of the season at 8:31.

Cavanagh produced Babson's first short-handed goal of the season late in the second period. With WestConn on the man advantage, Senier dumped the puck out of the defensive zone and Cavanagh gained possession in the neutral zone and went in on a breakaway, beating Lane with a backhander at 17:44 to make it a five-goal advantage heading into the third period.

The Beaver lead ballooned to a half dozen in the third period on the strength of Corrigan's first career goal. Cavanagh created a WestConn turnover with a steal below the goal line and flipped a pass to Corrigan in front, and Corrigan moved to his right to create a shooting lane and fired a shot top shelf at 8:29 to make it 6-0. Cavanagh tacked on a power play goal after a feed from Senier at the bottom of right circle, deking a defender before lifting a backhander under the cross bar at 14:34.

The Wolves would not go home empty-handed and came alive with two goals in the final three minutes. Fortier sent a long diagonal pass from his own zone to send Parker in on the Babson goal and he beat Rosado glove side inside the right post to break up the shutout at 17:32, and McNulty rounded out the scoring with a power play goal at 19:27, converting a crossing pass from Parker from the left circle.

The Beavers outshot the Wolves 48-20 and had a 47-23 advantage in face-offs. Babson was 2-of-4 on the power play while scoring a shorthander and holding WestConn to one goal on four attempts with a man-advantage.

Both teams return to the ice for LEC games on Saturday at 4 p.m., as the Green and White host Keene State and WestConn visits Southern Maine.

GAME NOTES
• Babson leads WestConn 2-0-0 in an all-time series that started back in November in Danbury, Conn.
• The 14 goals for Babson in two games against the Wolves this season came from 11 different players, with Cavanagh scoring three times and Fallon notching a pair.
• Rosado had held WestConn scoreless for more than 117 minutes this season until the two late goals.
• The Green and White are 13-0-1 this season when scoring at least three goals.