NEW LONDON, Conn.—Graduate student Joe Carrea (Cranford, N.J.) and sophomore Chase Burrows (Cream Ridge, N.J.) both pitched eight strong innings to help the Babson College baseball team sweep the Coast Guard Academy in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) doubleheader at Nitchman Field on Sunday afternoon. 

The Beavers won the opener 5-2 and followed it up with a 9-6 victory in game two to extend its winning streak to four games while improving to 8-7 overall and 2-1 in league play. Coast Guard has dropped four of its last five games to slip to 6-9 overall and 0-3 in the NEWMAC. 

Game 1: Babson 5, Coast Guard 2
Carrea (1-0) recorded the longest outing of his career, striking out five and allowing two runs on eight hits. Junior Ryan Liss (Hollywood, Fla.) homered and drove in two runs, first-year, sophomore Gabe Cushner (Harrington Park, N.J.) doubled and walked, and first-year Bobby Christensen (Scotch Plains, N.J.) knocked in a pair of runs for the Beavers. 

Junior Gus Barrido (Tampa, Fla.) was 3-for-4 with a double for the Bears. Senior Raymond Priddy (Chico, Calif.) gave up five runs, just one of them earned, on five hits over 4.1 innings and slipped to 1-2 on the year with the loss. 

Coast Guard took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first as junior Carson Cho (Haymarket, Va.) drew a leadoff walk, Barrido doubled to put a pair of runners in scoring position and junior Nate Stafford (Jupiter, Fla.) followed with a two-run single down the right field line. Liss homered to left center to cut the deficit in half in the top of the second, Christensen brought home graduate student Ryan Grace (Concord, Mass.) to tie it up in the third, and the Green and White took advantage of a pair of errors to take the lead for good in the fifth. 

Junior Dante D'Avanzo (Ashland, Mass.) reached on an error and later scored on an RBI single by sophomore Ben Valente (Newton, Mass.) to make it 3-2, Valente scored on an error two batters later and Christensen capped the rally with an RBI ground out that brought home Grace for a three-run lead. 

Carrea got inning-ending double plays in both the third and sixth, and retired the final five batters he faced before handing the ball to senior Zander Teator (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), who worked around a single and a walk with a pair of strikeouts to record his third save. 

Game 2: Babson 9, Coast Guard 6
Burrows was superb allowing just one run on six hits while recording a career-high seven strikeouts to improve to 3-0 on the year with the victory. Cusher went 4-for-5 with two runs batted in, Grace and senior Ryan Hvozdovic (Hillsborough, N.J.) both doubled and finished with two hits apiece, and Teator homered and knocked in a pair of runs to lead the Beavers' 13-hit attack. 

First-year Anthony DiClemente (Stafford, Va.) and classmate Peter Karloutsos (Ridgefield, Conn.) both went 2-for-2 with an RBI, while fellow rookie Yadisson Karbalaieasghar (Coral Springs, Fla.) singled twice to lead Coast Guard. 

Cushner staked the Green and White to a 2-0 lead with RBI singles in both the second and third innings, and the Beavers busted the game open with a four-run fourth that included two hits, three walks and an error. Teator delivered a two-run blast to left after sophomore Brooks Saft (New Hope, Pa.) worked a leadoff walk to make it 4-0, D'Avanzo raced home on an infield single by Liss and Christensen drove in Valente with sacrifice fly pushing the margin to 6-0. 

The Bears got on the board in the sixth thanks to an RBI ground out by sophomore Max Van Auken (Franklinville, N.J.), but Hvozdovic answered with an RBI double in the top of the seventh and Grace tacked on a pair of important insurance runs with a two-out, two-run double in the top of the ninth to give Babson a 9-1 edge. 

The hosts batted around in their final at-bat and brought the potential tying run to the plate, but Beavers' sophomore Graydon Vyse (Glastonbury, Conn.) struck out junior Reed Beighau (Essex, Conn.) on three pitches to end the game. 

Sophomore John DiMarsico (Severna Park, Md.) shouldered the loss to drop to 2-1 on the year after allowing six runs, three of them earned, over 3.1 innings. 

Both teams return to action at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday as Babson travels to Wheaton, while Coast Guard hosts Clark. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are now 69-27 all-time against Coast Guard and have won 17 of the last 22 games between the teams since 2016. 
•    Each of the seven games between the squads since 2024 have been decided by three runs or fewer. 
•    The Green and White is 8-0 this season and 53-1 since 2024 when leading after seven innings. 
•    Valente extended his hitting streak to six games with a knock in both contests on Sunday, while Grace has reached base safely in all 15 games this spring.