No. 23 Women's Volleyball vs. Endicott
Friday, October 30 | 7 p.m. 
Staake Gymnasium | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 14-9 all-time against Endicott in a series that dates back to 1980.
•    The Beavers have won three straight and seven of their last nine matches versus the Gulls since 2017.
•    The last 10 matches between the teams going back to 2016 have been decided in either four or five sets. 
•    The Green and White has won four consecutive matches against Endicott inside Staake Gymnasium, which includes four-set victories in both 2023 and 2024. 

LAST MEETING
•    Sophomore Ailsa Munro led four players in double figures with 12 kills and also recorded a match-high seven blocks to help Babson defeat Endicott in four sets, 25-19, 25-27, 25-18, 27-25, on October 10, 2025, in Beverly, Mass. 
•    Senior Hailey Fouche, junior Angelina Holm and Isabella Allen '26 all finished with 10 kills and three blocks, senior Zoe Ackerman handed out 48 assists and Sophia Shaw '26 chipped in with a team-high 16 digs for the Beavers, who erased a 19-12 deficit to close the match out in the fourth set. 
•    Hadley Helenbrook led all players with 13 kills, Kelsey Sanborn hit .500 and finished with 10 kills and four blocks, and Hannah Maguire contributed 40 assists and 11 digs for the Gulls, who had 16 attack errors over the final two sets. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 23 AVCA/No. 18 NPI Babson (19-5) has won two straight and seven of its last eight matches after sweeping Salve Regina, 25-17, 25-15, 25-19, on Tuesday night. 
•    First-year Lia Gonzalez led a balanced attack with eight kills, Holm provided seven kills and three blocks, and Ackerman dished out 30 assists and was one of seven players to register at least four kills for the Beavers, who hit .371 as a team in the victory. 
•    Fouche is averaging 2.97 kills per set to go along with a .295 hitting percentage, Munro (2.46 k/s, 0.96 b/s) ranks 30th in Division III with a .356 hitting percentage and leads the team in blocks, and sophomore Devon Burke is contributing 2.46 kills per set. 
•    Holm (1.71 k/s, 0.94 b/s) is hitting .275, Ackerman (10.35 a/s) ranks fourth in Division III in assists per set and leads the team with 59 service aces, and junior Sabina Frosk is contributing 4.13 digs per set. 

SCOUTING THE GULLS
•    Endicott (15-6) has won two straight and three of its last four matches after rallying for a four-set (23-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-15) victory over Hartford on Tuesday night. 
•    Helenbrook finished with 15 kills and 13 digs, Ava Grace Dresback contributed 10 kills, 13 assists and four aces, Jacquelyn Marion had nine kills and four blocks, and Sienna Sellitto dished out 21 assists for the Gulls, who recorded 17 service aces in the win. 
•    Helenbrook is averaging 3.21 kills and 3.17 digs per set, Dresback is contributing 2.50 kills per set, and Lincoln Abramaitys (2.32 k/s) is hitting .246. 
•    Jacquelyn Marion (2.20 k/s, 0.76 b/s) leads the squad with 53 total blocks, Maguire is handing out 9.05 assists per set but has missed the last five matches, and Tess Bartholomew is averaging a team-best 3.64 digs per set. 

ACKERMAN, MUNRO SWEEP NEWMAC WEEKLY AWARDS
•    After helping Babson to its second top-10 win of the season against MIT followed by capturing two of three matches at the New England Challenge, Ackerman was tabbed as the league's offensive player of the week while Munro was selected as the conference's defensive player of the week on Monday. 
•    Ackerman averaged 11.06 assists, including a season-high 56 in Friday's five-set victory over Middlebury, and 0.88 aces per set while helping the Beavers hit .213 as a team. 
•    Munro finished with 23 total blocks and averaged 1.44 blocks per set while also making her presence felt offensively, averaging 2.63 kills per set to go along with a .397 hitting percentage. 

ACKERMAN SETS ACES RECORD, CAREER ASSIST MARK IN SIGHT
•    Ackerman matched her season high with six service aces in the loss to Tufts and added four more in Saturday's sweep of Williams to become the program's all-time leader with 242 aces. 
•    She broke the previous record of 240 aces set by Michelle Malone '02 from 1998-2001. 
•    Ackerman also enters Friday's match ranked second in Babson history with 3,810 assists, which is just 102 behind all-time leader Elizabeth Cameron '20, who became the program's first Hall of Fame inductee last month. 

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    Fouche now ranks 10th in Babson history with 750 kills and is in 11th place all-time with 913.5 points. Additionally, she is one of five players in program history that has surpassed 700 kills and 200 blocks for her career. 
•    Ackerman is 10 assists shy of joining Elizabeth Cameron '20 and Kathleen Lynch '13 as the only setters in program history to hand out more than 900 assists in three different seasons. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Over the last 11 matches, Munro has registered double-digit kills eight times and is averaging 2.95 kills and 1.15 blocks per set while hitting .389 over this stretch. She also has at least four blocks in eight of her last nine outings. 
•    Frosk is averaging 4.70 digs per set over the last 13 matches and has finished with at least 18 digs eight times during this stretch. 
•    Holm recorded a season-high 16 kills in last Friday's win over Middlebury and has at least one block in 20 straight matches. 
•    Ackerman has handed out 30 or more assists in 15 consecutive matches going back to September 22. 
•    Fouche has provided at least seven kills in 22 of 24 matches this fall while finishing in double figures 17 times.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson has won 15 straight non-conference matches inside Staake Gymnasium dating back to September 7, 2024, and is 9-1 overall at home this season.
•    The Beavers are 18-1 this fall and 151-6 dating back to the start of the 2018 campaign when hitting .200 or better. 
•    The Green and White is 12-0 this year and 24-3 over the last two seasons when recording more digs than its opponents. 
•    The Beavers, who have recorded 11 seasons of at least 20 wins since head coach Eric Neely arrived in 2011, need one more victory to reach the mark for the ninth consecutive season

UP NEXT
•    Babson returns to NEWMAC play next Tuesday when it travels to Worcester, Mass., to face Clark at 7 p.m.