BABSON PARK, Mass.—Sophomore Rylie Rosenberg (New Rochelle, N.Y.) scored a career-high 23 points to lead four players in double figures as second-seeded Babson College cruised to a 92-68 win over the seventh-seeded Coast Guard Academy in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament quarterfinal on Wednesday night inside Staake Gymnasium. 

Babson, which has won nine of its last 10 games, improves to 18-8 overall and advances to the conference semifinals for the 16th time in the last 17 tournaments. Coast Guard sees its season come to a close at 13-13. 

Rosenberg knocked down a career-high seven three-pointers and finished 8-of-13 from the field to go along with four assists, while sophomore Julia St. Laurent (Greenland, N.H.) scored 14 points on 6-of-10 shooting for the Beavers. Senior Allessia Carlo (Carmel, N.Y.) added 12 points, first-year Alyssa Hopps (Quincy, Mass.) contributed 10 points and eight rebounds, and graduate student Emily Flynn (Hanover, Mass.) and senior Chloe Perreault (Danbury, Conn.) chipped in with nine points apiece. Perrault tied for game-high honors with eight boards, while Flynn finished with seven caroms and handed out five dimes. 

Sophomore Olivia Wright (Midloathian, Va.) scored 11 of her team-high 17 points in the third quarter and also provided five steals, senior Taylor Lynch (Madison, Ind.) finished with 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting and classmate Dorothy Stotts (Edina, Minn.) chipped in with 13 points to pace the Bears. 

The Green and White scored on eight of its first 12 possessions to race out to a 19-11 advantage and got a third three-pointer from Rosenberg and a bucket inside by Hopps to up its lead to 24-13 with 31 seconds left in the opening stanza. Rosenberg and Carlo buried back-to-back triples to give the Beavers a 30-15 edge, their largest of the first half, with 8:10 to go in the second quarter before Coast Guard answered with an 8-1 spurt that cut the deficit to 31-23 at the 5:59 mark. 

Carlo answered with a hoop, Rosenberg splashed in her fourth triple of the half and Perreault canned a trifecta from the right wing to extend the margin back to 15 less than a minute before the break, and Babson scored on its first six possessions of the third quarter to build a 54-35 advantage on two free throws by Perreault. The Bears responded with a 14-6 run to get as close as 60-49 on a three-point by sophomore Colleen Finnegan (Dover, Pa.) with 3:03 to go in the quarter but were unable but Rosenberg and Flynn answered with three-pointers and sophomore Alessa Mendoza (Yonkers, N.Y.) hit a mid-range pullup as the hosts stretched their cushion back to 70-55 going to the fourth. 

The Beavers put the game away early in the fourth with points on seven of their first nine possessions, and took their first 20-point lead of the night at 86-66 on a layup by sophomore Mary Kate Flynn (Hanover, Mass.) with 3:51 remaining. 

Babson shot a season-best 56.9 percent from the field and 11-of-18 from three-point range (61.1 percent) while outscoring Coast Guard 46-20 in the paint. The Beavers also finished with a 42-21 advantage on the glass. The Bears shot 44.4 percent from the field in the loss. 

Babson will now host third-seeded Clark in a NEWMAC Tournament semifinal on Friday at 5 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers, who snapped a two-game losing streak in the series, are 41-12 all-time against Coast Guard and 5-0 all-time in the conference playoffs. 
•    Babson's 92 points are its most since putting up 101 in a win over Mount Holyoke back on January 25, 2023. 
•    The Green and White is 26-5 all-time in the conference quarterfinals dating back to the formation of the NEW 6 in 1986.
•    The Beavers are now 111-1 when scoring 80 or more points going back to 2008.