Baseball vs. Wheaton
Tuesday, March 24 | 3:30 p.m. 
Govoni Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 39-58 all-time against Wheaton in a series that dates back to 1998.
•    The Beavers swept last year's regular season series and have won six of their last seven games against the Lyons going back to 2024, which includes four victories by either one or two runs. 
•    The teams have split their last 40 games going back to 2016 and 15 of the contests have been decided by one or two runs. 
•    The Green and White has won four straight games versus Wheaton at Govoni Field. 

LAST METTING
•    Brant Savage '24 M'25 went 3-for-4 with a grand slam and six runs batted in to help the Beavers defeat Wheaton, 17-10, on April 29, 2025, in Babson Park. 
•    Senior Zander Teator was 2-for-4 with a double and four RBI, while Justin Guest '25 and junior Ryan Liss both finished with three hits and scored four runs apiece for Babson, which scored multiple runs in five different innings thanks to 17 hits and jumped out to a 9-1 lead in the fourth. 
•    Casey Wensley, Timmy Wagner and Kevin Matos all homered and combined to drive in nine runs for the Lyons, who cut an eight-run deficit to just 11-9 in the sixth. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (4-6, 0-0) won its final two games in Florida and is coming off a 9-3 victory over Franklin & Marshall on Thursday. 
•    Sophomore Ben Valente went 3-for-4 with two RBI, two runs scored and two stolen bases, classmate Dylan Drazka doubled and knocked in two runs, and Teator went 2-for-5 with two RBI for the Beavers, who opened a 4-0 lead in the fifth and put the game away with five more runs in the eighth inning. 
•    Graduate student Ryan Grace is batting .385 with three home runs, three doubles, 15 RBI and 10 runs scored, Drazka is hitting .385 with a double, eight RBI and five runs scored, and first-year Bobby Christensen boasts a .346 average to go along with a pair of extra-base hits, three RBI and four runs scored. 
•    Sophomore Chase Burrows is 2-0 in three starts with an 8.27 earned run average over 16.1 innings, junior James Clark (1-2, 6.55 ERA) allowed just one earned run over 5.0 innings last Thursday against Franklin & Marshall, and graduate student Joe Carrea (0-0) boasts a 1.08 ERA and a 0.48 WHIP while striking out 10 over 8.1 innings this spring. 

SCOUTING THE LYONS
•    Wheaton (8-3, 0-0 NEWMAC) has split its last four games after rallying for a 4-3 11-inning victory to split Saturday's doubleheader against Nichols. 
•    Robbie Lamond went 3-for-5 with a double and the game-winning RBI in the bottom of the 11th, and Brayden Lewis doubled and knocked in a pair of runs for the Lyons, who tied the game on Declan Bush's solo homer to lead off the ninth inning. 
•    Collin Lewis is batting .375 with two home runs, four doubles, 12 RBI and 15 runs scored, Lush is hitting .372 with two homers, two doubles, 11 RBI and eight runs scored, and Lewis owns a .359 average to go along with two doubles, a home run, 12 runs batted in, five stolen bases and eight runs scored. 
•    Aiden Cardoza is 2-1 with a 2.57 ERA and eight strikeouts in 14.0 innings, Braden Young (1-1, 3.24 ERA) and Josh Fischer (1-0, 0.00 ERA) have combined for 13 strikeouts and a 0.59 WHIP in 13.1 innings out of the bullpen, and Evan Yakavonis (0-0) has a 5.00 ERA and nine strikeouts against just one walk in 9.0 innings pitched this spring. 

POLL POSITION
•    Despite losing the opening round of last year's conference tournament, Babson was picked to finish third in the NEWMAC preseason coaches' poll earlier this month. 
•    The Beavers totaled 51 points coming in just five points behind second-place Coast Guard, while No. 4/6 Salve Regina, the reigning NEWMAC Tournament and regular season champions, claimed seven of nine first-place votes to finish atop the poll with 63 points. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Senior Owen Stephens achieved a rare feat in last Wednesday's win over Rutgers-Newark by legging out an inside the park home run in the ninth inning for the first four-bagger of his career. 
•    Drazka owns a .471 on-base percentage and has yet to strikeout in 34 plate appearances this spring. 
•    Grace leads the team with four multi-hit and five multi-RBI games in his first 10 starts, has had at least one hit in nine of the contests and enters Tuesday's conference opener having reached base in all 10 outings on the year. 
•    Drazka and Liss, who is second on the team with two home runs, both have three multi-hit and multi-RBI games this spring. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Sophomore Ian Laforest enters the week with a four-game hitting streak and Drazka has at least one knock in three straight contests. 
•    Senior Ryan Hvozdovic has reached base safely each of his four starts this spring, while Christensen has been on base in three straight games. 

GOVONI FIELD SUCCESS
•    Babson went 11-4 at home last season and is 32-7 inside the friendly confines of Govoni Field since the start of the 2024 campaign. 
•    Going back further to 2022, the Beavers are 57-15 at home. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson is 4-1 this season and 24-4 going back to the start of the 2025 campaign when scoring six or more runs. 
•    Since the start of the 2024 season, the Beavers are 49-1 when leading after seven innings. 
•    The Green and White is 3-2 this spring and 24-8 over the last two years when recording at least two extra-base hits. 
•    Babson is 2-0 this season in games decided by a single run. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers host Suffolk at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday.