BABSON PARK, Mass.— Seniors Nolan Dion (Marshfield, Mass.) and Brendan Kennedy (Georgetown, Ont.) registered two points apiece and classmate Nate Mueller (Rogers, Minn.) made 25 saves in goal as No. 9 Babson College knocked off Keene State College, 3-1, in a Little East Conference men's ice hockey contest Saturday afternoon inside the Babson Skating Center.

With the victory, Babson extended its winning streak to four games and improved to 14-2-2 overall and 9-1-1 in the LEC. Keene State, which is in its second year as a varsity program, has lost eight in a row to slip to 5-12-0 overall and 1-10-0 in conference play.

Dion tallied a goal and an assist and Kennedy chipped in with a pair of assists for the Beavers. Senior Cam Joslin (Cohasset, Mass.) and junior Jimmy Fallon (Milton, Mass.) also scored for the Green and White, and seniors Ryan Murphy (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.) and Ian Driscoll (Middleton, Mass.) and sophomore Evan Brown (Little Silver, N.J.) produced one assist each in the victory.

Sophomore Peter Unger (Stamford, Conn.) scored the lone goal for the Owls with assists from junior Marcus Chrisafideis (Marlborough, Mass.) and sophomore Thor Hansen (Hawthorne, N.J.). Sophomore Ben Skelton (Roanoke, Va.) made 25 saves in goal in the setback.

The Beavers took an early lead with a pair of first-period goals. Joslin opened the scoring less than two minutes after the opening face-off when he redirected a pass in the high slot from Dion just inside the blue line and the puck got pas Skelton just inside the left post at the 1:51 mark.

The Green and White doubled the lead with a power play goal at 13:18. Dion teed up a one-timer slap shot from the left point off a feed from Kennedy that put the hosts up 2-0.

Keene State, which outshot Babson 8-7 in the opening frame, needed just 20 seconds into the second period to get on the scoreboard with a power play goal. Chrisafideis made a nice move around a Babson defender at the blue line to create a 2-on-1, then fed Unger on the right, who ripped a one-timer past Mueller to cut the margin in half.

Babson got the goal back and regained the two-goal midway through the second period. Brown sent a diagonal pass from the right point to Driscoll at the left face-off dot, and he sent the puck back across the crease to Fallon near the right post, and Fallon buried his team-leading 11th goal of the season at 10:53.

The hosts outshot the Owls 15-5 in the second period but couldn't get another shot past Skelton. The Owls returned the favor, outshooting the Beavers 13-6 in the third period, but the results were the same as Mueller and Skelton denied all shots over the final 29 minutes.

The Beavers finished with a slim 28-26 advantage in shots on goal. With just three penalties called in the game, Babson was 1-for-1 and Keene State was 1-for-2 on the power play.

Babson plays its next three games on the road, beginning on Saturday with an LEC game at Southern Maine. Keene State returns home to host New England College on Friday and Plymouth State on Saturday.

GAME NOTES
• Babson has won both games against Keene State in an all-time series that started back in November in Keene, N.H.
• Fallon has scored goals in back-to-back games and has 11 on the season, exceeding the nine goals he scored in his first two seasons combined.
• Brown has five assists in his last three games and leads the LEC with 19 assists in 18 games.
• The Green and White are 7-2-2 at the Babson Skating Center this season with five of the seven wins by either one or two goals.