BABSON PARK, Mass. — Junior
Penny Baroni (Dennis, Mass.) scored three goals and added an assist for her third straight game with a hat trick as No. 17 Babson College shut down Ithaca College, 7-0, in non-conference field hockey action on Senior Day Sunday afternoon at MacDowell Field.
With the victory, the Beavers extended their winning streak to four games and improved to 12-6 overall, while Ithaca winds up its season with a 10-7 record.
Seniors
Grace Mullaney (Boxford, Mass.) and
Helen DiGiovanni (Harwich, Mass.), sophomore
Kayla Rice (Walpole, Mass.) and first-year
Kate Schneider (Walpole, Mass.) all scored for the Beavers, and juniors
Charlotte Roe (Wayne, Pa.) and
Taylor Shoflick (Greenwood Village, Colo.) along with first-year
Julia Krepelka (Arlington, Mass.) chipped in with one assist each. First-year goalie
Carly Spinner (Lafayette Hill, Pa.) earned the win in her first collegiate start and sophomore
Madison Tibbals (Gorham, Maine) made one save between the pipes in the second half.
Senior Maeve Clark (Beverly, Mass.) made three saves in 36 minutes of action in the Ithaca goal and classmate Abby Cannon (East Amherst, N.Y.) did not allow a goal in her 24 minutes in the crease.
The Green and White took control of the game from the start, scoring three goals in the opening stanza. Baroni got the party started on a penalty corner in the fifth minute, taking a pass from Krepelka on the left side of the shooting circle and lifting a shot over a sliding goalie for a 1-0 lead.
Mullaney and Schneider notched goals 48 seconds apart later in the quarter. Mullaney tipped a shot by Baroni from the right side into the back of the net in the 14th minute and Schneider buried a shot amid a scrum in front of the goal in the 15th minute to give Babson a 3-0 lead after one period.
After a scoreless second quarter, the Beavers started to pull away in the third. Baroni notched her second of the game on a penalty corner four minutes into the third quarter, blasting a shot from the left side inside the near post. She rounded off her hat trick when a Babson pass bounced off someone's foot and ended up on Baroni's stick in front of the net and she whacked a shot inside the right post to make it 5-0.
Rice produced her first goal of the season early in the fourth quarter, firing home a rebound after Clark made a stop on a shot by Baroni. DiGiovanni rounded out the scoring in the 51st minute with a goal from the left off a feed from Shoflick.
Babson finished with a 20-2 advantage in total shots and 11-2 in shots on target, and had an 8-1 margin in penalty corners.
The Beavers wrap up the regular season with a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) match-up at Wheaton on Saturday at noon in Norton, Mass.
GAME NOTES
• Sunday's game was the first career meeting between Babson and Ithaca.
• Babson has allowed five or fewer shots on goal in 15 of 18 outings this season, and have conceded three of fewer shots on goal 13 times.
• Baroni is the 11th Beaver in program history to reach 20 goals in a season, and she and
Helen DiGiovanni (15) are the first Babson teammates with at least 15 goals each since
Caroline DiGiovanni '26 (19) and Jessica Evans '25 (15) in 2024.
• The Green and White recognized the seven seniors prior to the game, a class that has produced an overall record of 74-14 with three NEWMAC regular season and three tournament championships, three NCAA Tournament appearances and Division III Final Four berths in 2023 and 2025.
