BABSON PARK, Mass.— Graduate student Joey Allen (Philadelphia, Pa.) and junior Seamus Rooney (Bay Shore, N.Y.) scored four goals apiece, senior Bennett Smith (Lake Oswego, Ore.) tallied a goal and four assists, and grad student Beau Burns (Washington, D.C.) won a whopping 20-of-21 face-offs and picked up 15 ground balls as No. 6/6 Babson College cruised past Springfield College, 21-6, in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's lacrosse game Saturday afternoon at MacDowell Field.

Babson, ranked sixth in Division III by both the US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) and USA Lacrosse Magazine, improved to 8-0 overall and 2-0 in the NEWMAC for its best start to a season since 1979. Springfield had a three-game winning streak snapped and dropped to 5-4 overall and 1-1 in conference play.

Junior Rowan Mondello (Wakefield, Mass.) added two goals and an assist, classmate Andrew Berardi (Orleans, Mass.) and grad student Patrick McAleavey (Trumbull, Conn.) scored twice each, and sophomore Grayson Ambrosh (Danvers, Mass.) and first-year Reid Vandenberg (Park City, Utah) chipped in with a goal and assist for the Beavers. Sophomore Andrew Almquist (Wakefield, Mass.) made 13 saves in goal in the victory.

Junior Bryan Stensrud (Mansfield, Conn.) and sophomore Ryan Berkel (Sudbury, Mass.) scored two goals each for the Pride and senior Brady Soldo (Shrewsbury, Mass.) finished with a goal and an assist. Sophomores Angus Oliveira (Little Compton, R.I.) and Sal Posillico (Farmingdale, N.Y.) scooped up four ground balls each and first-year goalie Joseph Grenier (Cheshire, Conn.) made 13 save in goal in the setback.

Babson came out firing with four goals in the first five minutes as McAleavey, Berardi, Rooney and Smith all scored for the Beaver and Berkel had one for the Pride. Soldo cut the margin to 4-2 for Springfield but Berardi and Rooney scored again as the Green and White took a 6-2 lead after one period. Each team scored twice in the second frame as Stensrud scored for the visitors but was answered by Allen for the Beavers, and Webb and Allen traded man-up goals to make it 8-4 at the intermission.

The Beavers pulled away in the third quarter with five of the first six goals. Junior Camden Matthews (Westford, Mass.), Rooney and sophomore Mark Brown (San Diego, Calif.) extended the lead to 11-4 before Berkel put in a man-up goal and Rooney and Allen tacked on two more as the lead swelled to 13-5. Stensrud managed one more goal for the Pride late in the third but Mondello scored for Babson 16 seconds later for a 14-6 margin after three, and blew the game open with all seven goals in the final frame.

Babson had a decisive 64-31 advantage in total shot, including 35-19 in shots on target. The Beavers had a 57-25 advantage in ground balls and won 27 of the game's 31 face-offs.

The Green and White will be back on MacDowell Field on Tuesday at 7 p.m., hosting No. 3/3 Bowdoin for a key battle between top-10 teams. Springfield returns home to host MIT in a NEWMAC battle next Saturday at 7 p.m.

GAME NOTES
• The Beavers have won eight of their last 11 games versus the Pride since 2018 but Springfield has taken 33 of the 44 career meetings in a series that dates back to the late 1970s.
• Burns' face-off performance is the best for a Babson player since Conor Maloney went 20-for-20 in a win over New England College on March 11, 2015, and Babson's 57 ground balls is the most since scooping up 59 in that same game.
• The Green and White have won 20 of the last 22 NEWMAC regular season games going back to 2024.