BABSON PARK, Mass.—Senior Luke D'Orsi (Jamestown, R.I.) finished with career highs of four goals and six points and classmate Bennett Smith (Lake Oswego, Ore.) matched his career high with four goals as Babson College opened the season with a 19-7 win over Wentworth Institute of Technology in non-conference men's lacrosse action on Saturday afternoon at MacDowell Field. 

Babson (1-0) has now won 10 consecutive season openers going back to 2017, while Wentworth drops to 1-1 on the year. 

Senior Braden Reilly (Reading, Mass.) scored a career-high three goals matched his career-high four points, juniors Anthony Stillwell (Weston, Mass.) and Camden Matthews (Westford, Mass.) both had two goals, and senior Jack Feeks (Georgetown, Mass.) chipped in with a goal and two assists to lead the Beavers. Senior Will Reading (Southlake, Texas) won 9-of-12 face-offs and scooped up six ground balls, graduate student Beau Burns (Washington, D.C.) won 8-of-9 face-offs and also collected six ground balls, and sophomore Andrew Almquist (Wakefield, Mass.) made seven saves in his first career start. 

Senior Jake Caraluzzi (Brookfield, Conn.) and junior Gabe Cobham (Westbury, N.Y.) both scored twice, while senior Colin Ocampo (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) recorded a goal and an assist to lead the Leopards. Junior Chuck Udra (Milford, N.H.) led all players with two caused turnovers, sophomore Tony Corrado (Southington, Conn.) and classmate Colin Blackburn (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) each picked up two ground balls, and fellow sophomore AJ Smith (Methuen, Mass.) finished with nine saves over the first three-plus quarters. 

The Green and White seized control of the contest by scoring eight times in less than seven minutes spanning the first and second quarters. Smith gave the hosts a 3-2 lead at the 2:39 mark of the first and followed up a tally by Stillwell to make it 5-2 before Matthews scored with 0:01 left in the stanza for a four-goal advantage. 

Burns won the opening face-off the second to set up D'Orsi's first goal of the game at 14:54, Smith scored two in a row and D'Orsi shook a defender along the left sideline and picked out the upper corner for another tally to make it 10-2 with 11:14 to go until halftime. Corrado stopped the run momentarily for Wentworth 28 seconds later, but the Beavers notched the final four goals of the period, which included D'Orsi beating the buzzer to complete his hat trick to make it 14-3 at the break. 

Junior Luke Wang (Simsbury, Conn.) gave Babson a 15-3 cushion just over a minute into the third quarter and sophomore Jake Murray (Riverside, R.I.) and first-year Alex Schobel (Tewksbury, N.J.) each added their first career goals in the fourth to make it 19-6 with 3:55 remaining. 

The Beavers finished with a 44-31 edge in shots, won 21-of-27 faceoffs, were 14-of-16 on clears and also had a 27-15 advantage in ground balls. The Leopards scored on two of three extra-man opportunities but were converted just 17-of-26 clears. 

Babson is back in action next Saturday at 1 p.m. when it travels to Schenectady, N.Y., to face Union, while Wentworth visits Clark on Wednesday at 4 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are now 10-0 all-time against Wentworth although Saturday's contest was the first between the programs since 2010.
•    Babson is now 20-1 at MacDowell Field dating back to the start of the 2024 campaign. 
•    The Green and White is 37-2 since the beginning of the 2023 season when scoring 14 or more goals. 
•    The Beavers have scored at least one man-up goal in six consecutive outings going back to last year.