Softball at Smith 
Sunday, March 29 | 12 p.m. (DH)
Smith Softball Field | Northampton, Mass.

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 39-33 all-time against Smith in a series that dates back to 1988.
•    The Beavers have won of their last five games versus the Bears over the last two seasons and have been victorious in 11 of the last 13 matchups between the teams since 2018.
•    The Green and White has split its last two doubleheaders on the road against Smith since 2022. 
•    Babson has been victorious in game one of 18 straight regular season doubleheaders against Smith since 2005. 

LAST MEETING
•    Senior Sophia Pak went 2-for-2 with a double and four RBI, sophomore Samantha Skivo singled three times and had two RBI, and junior Ruby Madia hit her first career grand slam to help the Beavers finish off a sweep of Smith with a 20-0 five-inning win on April 11, 2025, in Babson Park. 
•    Athena Hadjipanayis '25 also provided two RBI and Pak drove in runs in both of her first-inning at-bats as Babson sent 15 hitters to the plate as part of a 10-run uprising. 
•    Elinor Washington went 2-for-3 and Bailey Gray singled and walked for the Bears, who made a season-high eight errors in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (6-8, 0-0 NEWMAC) suffered a 6-2 and 2-1 losses to Bates in its first games since returning from Florida on Wednesday. 
•    Sophomore Belle DiCampello went 2-for-3 with a double and junior Lexi Sealey had an RBI single in the nightcap for the Beavers, who got five strikeouts in a complete-game effort from junior hurler Katie Vlacich. 
•    DiCampello is batting .366 with five extra-base hits, seven runs batted in and two runs scored, Sealey is hitting .356 with five doubles, a triple, a home run, seven RBI and five runs scored, and junior Emily Walsh owns a .348 average to go along with five extra-base hits and team highs of eight RBI and 11 runs scored. 
•    First-year Anna Ziccardi (2-1, 1.12 ERA) has 18 strikeouts in 25.0 innings and is holding opposing hitters to a .217 average, Sealey is 2-0 with a 3.96 ERA in 17.2 innings pitched and first-year Anna Topel is 2-4 with a 4.34 ERA in 30.2 innings over seven starts this spring. 

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•    Smith (6-5, 0-0 NEWMAC) has split its last six games after recording a 9-1 six-inning victory to split Friday's doubleheader against Keene State. 
•    Riley Veenstra was 3-for-4 with two RBI, Ally Knutson went 2-for-3 with a triple and two runs scored, and Lily Hackett brought in the go-ahead run with an RBI single to spark a five-run fourth inning for the Bears, who got eight strikeouts over 6.0 innings from Violet Peverly. 
•    Knutson is batting .442 with nine extra-base hits, 16 RBI and 10 runs scored, Sophie Hasegawa is batting .419 with two extra-base hits, six runs batted in and 12 runs scored, and Gabbie Chinnis boasts a .407 average go along with six RBI and a team-high 15 runs scored for an offensive that is averaging better than eight runs a game. 
•    Gray (3-0, 3.00 ERA) has recorded 19 strikeouts while holding opposing hitters to a .206 average in 25.2 innings, and Peverly is 3-3 with a 3.86 ERA and 36 strikeouts in 29.0 innings pitched. 

POLL POSITION
•    After tying for second place advancing to the championship round of the conference tournament for the second year in a row, the Beavers were picked to finish third in the NEWMAC preseason coaches' poll back in February. 
•    Defending champion MIT and Springfield combined to earn 10 of 11 first-place votes to come in ahead of Babson, while WPI and Wheaton rounded out the top five. 
•    Smith was picked to come in 11th following last year's last place finish. 

SUCCESS AGAINST THE BEARS
•    Junior Charlotte Raymond is 5-for-12 (.417) with a double, a homer and seven RBI in five career games versus Smith. 
•    Pak is hitting .500 (5-for-10) with a double, four RBI and two runs scored in five games over the last two years, while junior Devin McCall went 3-for-5 with an RBI and three runs scored in last season's doubleheader sweep. 
•    Vlacich is 2-1 in three career starts against Smith and is 2-0 with a 1.55 ERA and nine strikeouts over 9.0 innings in her last two starts versus the Bears. 

BEAVER BITES
•    DiCampello had her seven-game hitting streak snapped in game one at Bates on Wednesday, but has at least one knock in eight of the last nine contests. 
•    Walsh has at least one hit in four consecutive games, while McCall has reached base safely in each of the last four outings. 
•    DiCampello and Walsh are tied for the team lead in both multi-hit games (4) and multi-RBI games (2). 
•    Ziccardi, who recorded a season-high eight strikeouts in Babson's 5-3 win over Plymouth State on March 17, has allowed two or fewer earned runs while pitching at least six innings in each of her first three starts. 
•    The Beavers have turned eight double plays through their first 14 games, which is already two more than they recorded in 41 contests last spring. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 4-1 this season and 26-7 going back to the start of the 2025 campaign when scoring the first run of the game. 
•    Babson is 5-0 on the year and 25-1 since the beginning of last year when leading after five innings. 
•    The Green and White is 2-2 this season in games decided by two runs or fewer. 
•    The Beavers are 5-1 this spring when scoring at least three runs. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson will play its first home games of the season when it welcomes Framingham State to Alumni Field on Tuesday.