Women's Soccer at Clark
Wednesday, October 7 | 7 p.m. 
Granger Field | Worcester, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson is 21-12-5 all-time against Clark in a series that dates back to 1994.
• The Beavers have won four of their last five matches against the Cougars and are 5-2-1 in the last seven dating back to 2017.
• The Cougars edged the Green and White 1-0 in the last game at Granger Field in 2024, breaking Babson's streak of 4-0-1 at Clark from 2011-22.
• Babson has conceded just four goals to the Cougars over the last eight fixtures between the sides going back to 2017. 

LAST MEETING
• Junior Josie Lee scored her team-leading fourth goal of the season in the 78th minute to break a 1-1 tie and Babson held on to defeat Clark, 2-1, on October 8, 2025, at Hartwell-Rogers Field.
• Junior Lillian McAughan also scored for the Green and White, and classmate Alexa Pesiridis and sophomore Izzy Reidy registered assists. Sophomore keeper Maisie Creamer made her first career start in goal and finished with four saves in the victory.
• Junior Solimar Rivera scored for the Cougars with an assist from classmate Georgia Louis. Senior Ava Lepro made four saves in goal in the setback.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• Babson (4-4-2, 1-0-2 NEWMAC) extended its unbeaten streak to five games with a 1-1 draw against conference foe WPI on Saturday afternoon at Hartwell-Rogers Field.
• Sophomore Izzy Lee scored in the sixth minute and visiting WPI equalized midway through the second half. Sophomore Sarah Hogan collected her first career assist and Creamer made four second-half saves in relief of senior goalkeeper Callahan Cottone, who started and stopped one shot over the first 45 minutes. 
• Senior Priscilla-Rose Men-Martin (4-1-9) and Izzy Lee (4-1-9) share the team scoring lead, accounting for eight of Babson's 16 goals on the season. McAughan (2-1-5) has all five of her points in the last four games while sophomore Lindsey Cassady (0-2-2) and junior Mack Feeney (0-2-2) share the team lead in assists.
• Cottone (4-3-1, 2 SO) is third in the NEWMAC with a 0.83 goals against average in 10 starts, while Creamer (0-1-1) has a 1.25 GAA off the bench and has split two shutout victories with Cottone.

SCOUTING THE COUGARS
• Clark (5-3-0, 1-2-0 NEWMAC) has alternated wins and losses over its last four games following a 2-1 conference setback at Emerson on Saturday in Boston.
• Rivera scored her fourth goal of the season in the 34th minute to tie the score before Clark conceded the winning goal in the 72nd minute. Louis had a team-high three shots in the setback and senior Gabrielle Huryn finished with three saves between the pipes.
• Louis (6-3-15) and Rivera (4-4-12) give the Cougars a solid duo in the scoring department, combining for 31 career markers. Junior Selene Hammad (1-6-8) is second in the NEWMAC in assists, and sophomore Kory Lloyd (3-2-8), first-year Caroline Knecht (3-2-8) and junior Madeleine Reeves (3-1-7) are all scoring threats for the Red and White.
• Huryn (3-3, 1.82 GAA) has been in goal for 495 minutes with three starts while Lepro (2-0, 1.60 GAA) has logged 225 minutes in five starts, and the two have combined for a pair of clean sheets.

STREAKING BEAVERS
• Babson has outscored its opponents 14-2 in its five-game unbeaten streak with three clean sheets.
• The Green and White have at least 15 shots in all five games, outshooting their foes 110-36, including 48-17 in shots on target.
• The streak is the longest for the Beavers since beginning the 2025 campaign with a 3-0-4 mark.

BABSON VS. THE NEWMAC
• Going back to the start of the 2022 campaign, the Green and White are 28-9-9 versus league foes, which includes an 13-4-6 road record over the last five seasons.
• The Beavers went 7-3-1 and finished fourth in the league standings a year ago and set a single-season program record with eight conference wins in 2023.
• Babson was picked to finish third when the NEWMAC released its preseason coaches' poll back in August.

BEAVER BITES
• After going pointless in her first five games, Izzy Lee owns a five-game point streak with four goals and an assist in that stretch. 
• Men-Martin has a team-leading two multi-goal games, scoring twice against both Springfield and Framingham State.
• Seven different players have scored at least one of Babson's 16 goals this season, and 13 players have at least one point.
• Seniors Claudia Baiter and Cottone and Izzy Lee are the only three Beavers to start all 10 games, Men-Martin, fellow seniors Caroline Sutherland and Jadyn Mapura, and Cassady have been in the starting XI nine times, and 19 players own at least one start.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• The Green and White are 4-0-1 this year and 17-1-4 over the last three seasons when scoring the first goal of the game. 
• The Beavers are 4-0-1 this season and 31-0-5 since 2022 when taking the lead into the second half. 
• Going back to the start of last year, Babson is 12-3-6 when conceding one goal or fewer.

UP NEXT
• Babson plays its next three games at home, beginning Saturday with a Senior Day affair against Mount Holyoke at 12 p.m. at Hartwell-Rogers Field.