No. 24 Women's Volleyball vs. Mount Holyoke
Saturday, October 17 | 1 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY 
•    Babson is 24-16 all-time against Mount Holyoke in a series that dates back to 1988. 
•    The Beavers have won 15 straight matches in the series and have lost to the Lyons just once in 20 contests going back to 2006.
•    The Green and White has been victorious in 10 straight matches versus Mount Holyoke inside Staake Gymnasium since 2007. 

LAST MEETING
•    Sophomore Liberty May recorded 14 kills, junior Angelina Holm hit .522 and added 13 kills and four blocks as the Beavers defeated Mount Holyoke in four sets, 25-13, 25-20, 23-25, 25-16, in a NEWMAC Tournament quarterfinal on November 11, 2025, in Babson Park. 
•    Senior Zoe Ackerman handed out 47 assists, classmate Hailey Fouche contributed nine kills and nine digs, and sophomores Devon Burke and Ailsa Munro both added eight kills for Babson, which finished with a .347 hitting percentage in the victory. 
•    Elle Rimando led all players with 17 kills, Madeline Barton added 14 kills and Sadie Duffrin handed out 36 assists to go along with nine digs for the Lyons, who were making their first NEWMAC Tournament appearance since 2006. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 24 Babson (14-4, 5-1 NEWMAC) has won back-to-back matches in five sets after rallying past WPI, 23-25, 25-20, 22-25, 25-17, 15-10, on Wednesday night in Worcester. 
•    Fouche led all players with 16 kills, first-year Julia Garcia matched her season high with 13 kills, Ackerman provided 50 assists and five service aces, and first-year Sara Arango registered a career-high 31 digs for the Beavers, who finished with a season-high 17 service aces and hit .381 in the decisive fifth set. 
•    Fouche ranks sixth in the NEWMAC in both kills per set (3.09) and hitting percentage (.299), Burke is averaging 2.47 kills per set and Munro (2.35 k/s, 0.76 blocks/set) ranks fourth in the league with a .330 hitting percentage. 
•    Holm (1.69 k/s, 0.90 b/s) ranks sixth in the conference in blocks, Ackerman (10.19 a/s, 1.81 d/s) ranks eighth in Division III in assists per set and junior Sabina Frosk is averaging a team-high 3.98 digs per set. 

SCOUTING THE LYONS
•    Mount Holyoke (9-5, 2-3 NEWMAC) has won two straight and five of its last six matches after sweeping Nichols (25-13, 26-24, 25-19) on Thursday night. 
•    Eliza Vest led a balanced attack with eight kills, Layla Abdullah and Ellie Molina added seven kills apiece, and Melina Cudiamat handed out 26 assists to go along with 10 digs and three service aces for the Lyons, who recorded their third-highest hitting percentage (.209) of the season in the victory. 
•    Vest (3.04 k/s, 2.44 d/s) has posted five double-doubles, Molina is averaging 2.62 kills per set and Abdullah (2.26 k/s, 0.80 b/s) is hitting a team-best .244 and ranks ninth in the league in blocks. 
•    Cudiamat is dishing out 8.48 assists per set, while Kyra Staples is averaging a NEWMAC-best 5.02 digs per set. 

ACKERMAN EARNS NEWMAC RECOGNITION
•    After totaling 179 assists, averaging 10.53 assists per set and helping the Beavers hit .223 as a team in four matches, Ackerman was tabbed as the NEWMAC Offensive Co-Athlete of the Week on Tuesday. 
•    She finished with at least 37 assists in all four matches, which includes a season-high 50 against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and 45 versus Pomona-Pitzer as the Beavers split a pair of five-set matches last Saturday. 

RISING IN THE RECORD BOOKS
•    Thanks to Wednesday's 50-assist, five-ace performance, Ackerman now ranks second in program history in both statistical categories. She passed Kathleen Lynch '13 for second place with 3,654 assists and also moved past Alyson Yablonskie '03 with her 222 service aces. 
•    Fouche has moved up to 12th all-time with 854.0 points and enters Saturday's match just one kill shy of becoming the 12th player in Babson history to reach 700 career kills. 

TRENDS TO WATCH
•    Munro is averaging 3.09 kills and 0.81 blocks per set while hitting .358 over the last five matches. 
•    In five conference matches this fall, Frosk is averaging 4.94 digs per set. 
•    Ackerman has handed out at least 45 assists in four consecutive matches and is averaging 10.11 assists per set during this stretch. 
•    Fouche has provided at least 11 kills in four straight matches and 15 of 18 contests this fall. 
•    Over the last four matches, Arango has totaled 82 digs and is averaging 4.32 digs per set. 
•    Garcia has recorded 13 kills in back-to-back matches to go along with a .339 hitting percentage. 
•    In five appearances going back to October 3 at Coast Guard, first-year Maya Foley is averaging 1.09 kills and 1.27 blocks per set.  

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Ackerman has handed out 30 or more assists in nine consecutive matches. 
•    Fouche has recorded double-digit kills in four straight matches and has produced at least one block in 12 consecutive outings.
•    Holm has contributed at least one block in 14 straight matches, while Munro owns a streak of 12 consecutive matches with a block. 
•    Frosk has 11 or more digs in each of her last eight matches, which includes 19 or more in three straight going back to Babson's October 6 win over Emerson. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers have finished with at least 45 kills and 65 digs in four consecutive matches for just the third time going back to 2017. 
•    Babson has hit .200 or better in six of its last seven matches and is 68-2 when finishing with a hitting percentage of at least .200 over the last four seasons. 
•    The Green and White is 10-1 on the year when it records more blocks than its opponents. 
•    The Beavers are 37-3 over the last three seasons when serving up 10 or more aces. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson travels to No. 3 MIT next Tuesday at 6 p.m.