Women's Soccer vs. No. 5 MIT
Saturday, October 17 | 1 p.m. 
Roberts Field | Cambridge, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY 
•    Babson is 25-17-7 all-time against MIT in a series that dates back to 1985.
•    The Beavers have dropped nine of their last 10 matches versus the Engineers with the lone victory coming back in 2023 in Babson Park. 
•    Four of the last seven games have been decided by a single goal, which includes Babson's 1-0 loss in its last visit to Roberts Field in the 2024 NEWMAC Tournament semifinals. 
•    The Green and White is seeking its first win in Cambridge over the Engineers since 1999. 

LAST MEETING
•    Madeline Seebeck scored in the 24th minute and Amara Ukomadu added a pair of second-half goals just over two minutes apart to help MIT defeat the Beavers, 3-0, on October 18, 2025, in Babson Park. 
•    Ukomadu put away a feed from Shreya Kalyan in the 64th minute and Andrea Cummings and Skye Williams assisted on her insurance marker in the 66th minute for the Engineers, who got one first-half save from Ava Muffoletto. 
•    Sophomore goalkeeper Maisie Creamer finished with four saves and classmate Lindsey Cassady cleared away a scoring chance by the visitors in the 57th minute for Babson, which was outshot 14-5 in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (6-5-3, 3-0-3 NEWMAC) has lost just once going back to September 13 and is coming off a 4-2 win over Salve Regina on Tuesday afternoon. 
•    Junior Lillian McAughan provided two goals and one assist for a career-high five points, classmate Josie Lee added a goal and assist in the second half, and senior Priscilla-Rose Men-Martin converted a late penalty kick for the Beavers, who scored three times in the span of 16 minutes after the Seahawks pulled even in the 66th minute. 
•    Men-Martin (7-1-15) is fifth in the conference in goals, McAughan (4-2-10) and sophomore Izzy Lee (4-1-9) have combined to score five times in league play, and the trio of senior Janiya Ocampo (2-2-6), Cassady (1-2-4) and Josie Lee (1-2-4) are among five players tied for the team lead in assists. 
•    Senior Callahan Cottone (6-5-2) ranks second in the NEWMAC in goals against average (0.84) and fifth in save percentage (.810) to go along with three shutouts, while Creamer (0-1-1) owns a 1.15 goals against average and a .792 save percentage in nine appearances this fall. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    No. 5 MIT (12-2-1, 6-0 NEWMAC) has won three consecutive games after routing Clark 5-0 on Wednesday night. 
•    Molly Mascardo and Ayla Sumer made it 2-0 in the 16th minute, Arianna Chin scored in the 74th minute and Cummings and Arianna Doss each provided two assists for the Engineers, who tacked on two more goals over the final eight minutes and got six saves from Maddy Noll. 
•    Claire Zhang (9-2-20) ranks second in the conference in goals and points, Doss (5-9-19) is first in the league in assists and tied for third in points, and Cummings (5-3-13) and Sumer (4-3-11) are both tied for the team lead with two game-winning goals apiece. 
•    Noll is 10-1-1 in 13 starts and leads the NEWMAC in goals against average (0.38), save percentage (.886) and shutouts (6) to lead an MIT defense that is tied for second in Division III with 11 clean sheets. 

MEN-MARTIN NAMED NEWMAC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
•    Men-Martin was tabbed as the league's offensive player of the week for the first time in her career after recording her third brace of the season in last Saturday's 7-0 rout of Mount Holyoke. 
•    She scored twice in a span of just over 15 minutes, notching her first goal in the 18th minute and scoring again in the 33rd minute to give the Beavers a 3-0 advantage. 

BEAVERS' BEST NEWMAC STARTS
•    Babson is unbeaten through its first six conference games for the second consecutive season and seventh time since 2008. 
•    The Beavers started 5-0-1 in 2010, 2014 and 2025, were 6-0 in 2011 and have now gone 3-0-3 over their first six NEWMAC matches three times (2008, 2015, 2026). 
•    The last time the Green and White earned a result in its first seven conference games came in 2015 when it started 5-0-3. 

BEAVER BITES
•    McAughan became the third Babson player to record a brace this season in Wednesday's win over Salve Regina joining Ocampo, who had two goals and one assist in last Saturday's victory over Mount Holyoke, and Men-Martin, who has scored twice in victories over Springfield, Framingham State and Mount Holyoke.
•    Izzy Lee has at least one point in five of Babson's last nine games dating back to September 19.
•    Sophomore Izzy Reidy recorded her first assist of the season and the second of her career in Wednesday's triumph over Salve Regina.
•    Cottone, Izzy Lee and senior center back Claudia Baiter are the Beavers' only players to start all 14 matches this fall. Going back to the end of the 2024 campaign, Baiter has started 37 straight games. 
•    Over the last nine matches, Cottone has conceded just four goals while stopping 25 of 29 shots for a .862 save percentage. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson is 4-1-3 in its last eight NEWMAC road games going back to September of last season.
•    The Beavers are 5-0-1 this season and 18-1-4 when scoring the first goal of the match over the last three years. 
•    The Green and White is 6-1-3 when ahead or tied at halftime but just 0-4 when it trails after 45 minutes. 
•    Since the Beavers defeated MIT 2-1 on October 18, 2023, in Babson Park, the Engineers have gone 39-0-1 versus NEWMAC foes. 
•    Babson has conceded one goal or fewer in 10 of 14 matches and is tied for second in the conference with six clean sheets. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers return home to take on Smith on Wednesday at 3 p.m.