Men's Soccer vs. Coast Guard
NEWMAC Tournament Semifinal
Friday, November 6 | 1 p.m. 
Hartwell-Rogers Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 45-9-9 all-time against Coast Guard in a series that dates back to 1968. 
•     The Beavers are unbeaten in nine consecutive matches versus the Bears (7-0-2) since 2018. 
•    The Green and White has won five straight games in the series at home going back to 2018 while outscoring Coast Guard 17-1.
 
POSTSEASON HISTORY 
•    Babson and Coast Guard will meet in the NEWMAC semifinals for the second consecutive season and sixth time overall in the conference playoffs on Friday afternoon. 
•    The Beavers are 4-0-1 all-time against the Bears in the conference tournament with victories in the 2025 (3-1) and 2008 (3-0) in the NEWMAC semifinals, a 3-0 triumph in the 1991 Constitution Athletic Conference (CAC) semifinals, and also advanced on penalty kicks following a 0-0 draw in the 2000 NEWMAC semifinals. 
•    Each of the five previous matches have been played on Hartwell-Rogers Field. 

LAST MEETING
•    Junior Christian Gardner scored in the 27th minute and graduate student Drew Stephans added an insurance marker in the 73rd minute as the Beavers defeated Coast Guard, 2-0, on October 31 in Babson Park. 
•    Gardner and sophomore Connor Hanrahan each collected an assist, and first-year goalkeeper Braeden Condit made three saves for Babson, which finished with a 21-9 edge in shots. 
•    Samuel Linkous made seven of his nine saves over the first 45 minutes for the Bears. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Top-seeded Babson (10-2-5) extended its unbeaten streak to a season-best seven games and finished league play without a loss for the sixth time in the last eight seasons with last Saturday's 2-0 victory over Coast Guard. 
•    Senior Alexander Yablonovskiy (5-5-15) is tied for first in the conference in assists and fourth in points, Hanrahan (4-1-9) has one game-winning goal and senior McKenzy Pierre (3-2-8) has produced a goal and an assist in league play. 
•    Gardner (2-2-6) and senior Will Lloyd (2-2-6) have combined to score three game-winning goals, Stephans (1-3-5) is second on the team in assists, and sophomore Adam Stetson (2-1-5) and senior Ben Cosentino (2-0-4) both scored in the Beavers' October 24 victory at WPI. 
•    Condit has started the last six matches for the Green and White going 4-0-2 with a 0.50 goals against average and a .824 save percentage to go along with three shutouts. 

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•    Fourth-seeded Coast Guard (9-6-3) advanced to the NEWMAC semifinals for the fourth year in a row after rallying for a 2-1 win over fifth-seeded Emerson in Tuesday night's quarterfinals. 
•    Elliot Belton tied the game with his first goal of the season in the 66th minute, Naveen Jayaram banged him a rebound for the go-ahead goal in the 72nd minute and Linkous made four saves for the Bears, who conceded the opening marker of the game in the 36th minute. 
•    Cole Miller (8-4-20) ranks first in the conference in points and is tied for first in goals, Andres Villasana (3-2-8) has produced a pair of game-winning markers, Jayaram (3-0-6) has scored twice against league foes and Kai Trager (2-2-6) is tied for second on the squad in assists. 
•    Linkous is 8-3-3 in 14 starts this fall with a 0.96 goals against average and a .814 save percentage to go along with four clean sheets. 

TOURNAMENT TESTED
•    Yablonovskiy produced two goals and three assists in four postseason games last season, has scored five times in 13 career postseason games, and has recorded a point in three straight NEWMAC Tournament matches going back to the 2024 final.
•    Lloyd has played every minute of Babson's last eight postseason matches going back to the start of the 2024 NCAA Tournament, and has been in the starting XI in 11 of 13 career postseason contests. 
•    Pierre provided a goal and an assist in last year's NEWMAC semifinal win over Coast Guard, senior Huey Miller collected his first career postseason assist in last season's win over the Bears, and Hanrahan scored his first career postseason goal in the Beavers' 1-0 triumph over SUNY Oneonta in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last November. 

NEWMAC TOURNAMENT TRENDS
•    The Beavers have won 17 conference titles going back to 1990, which includes five of the last six NEWMAC crowns going back to 2019. 
•    After capturing back-to-back NEWMAC titles in 2024 and 2025, the Green and White is looking to claim its third consecutive title for the first time since winning three straight from 2008-10. 
•    The Beavers are 18-4-1 in their last 23 conference semifinal matches and have advanced to seven consecutive NEWMAC finals since 2018.
•    Babson is 11-0-1 in its last 12 NEWMAC Tournament matches going back to 2019 and has not lost a conference tournament game since falling to Springfield 1-0 in the 2018 final. 
•    The Beavers have won nine consecutive conference playoff games on Hartwell-Rogers Field since suffering a 2-1 OT loss to Wheaton in the 2016 semifinals. 

RISING IN THE RECORD BOOKS
•    Yablonovskiy scored the 25th goal of his career on October 28 at Wheaton and is now tied for 11th place on the Beavers' all-time goals list. 
•    He also ranks third in school history with 63 career points and is one of 10 players in Babson annals with at least 25 goals and 13 assists. 
•    Babson head coach Jon Anderson '75 has won 491 career games, ranks second among active coaches in Division III, and has moved into fourth place among all active NCAA coaches in victories behind only Tony Tocco of Division II Rockhurst (757 wins), Paul McGinlay of Division III Trinity (Texas) (599 wins), and John Rootes of Division II Lynn (517 wins).
•    Anderson's 103 draws also rank third in NCAA history behind only Dave Masur of St. John's (120) and George Kuntz of Cal St. Fullerton (113). 

WHEN 90 MINUTES ISN'T ENOUGH
•    No overtime was played during regular season contests for the fourth consecutive season, but all postseason matches will feature two 10-minute sudden-death overtime periods if a game is deadlocked at the end of regulation. 
•    If the game remains tied after both overtime sessions, a winner will be decided by penalty kicks.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 26-2-2 at home against NEWMAC foes since 2021.
•    Babson is unbeaten in 11 straight matches versus conference foes going back to November of last year.
•    The Green and White 8-0-2 this fall and 35-1-5 over the last three seasons when scoring the opening goal of the game. 
•    The Beavers are 9-0-5 this season when conceding one or zero goals. 
•    Babson is 9-1-2 over the last two seasons in the month of November. 
•    The Green and White has outscored its opponents 17-7 in the second half this season with 10 of its goals coming in the 73rd minute or later. 

UP NEXT
•    The winner of Friday's semifinal will face either second-seeded Wheaton or third-seeded MIT in Sunday's NEWMAC final.