WORCESTER, Mass.— Graduate student Joey Allen (Philadelphia, Pa.) tallied five first-quarter points with two goals and three assists as No. 5/8 Babson College built a 7-0 lead and then never looked back on the way to an 18-5 victory over Clark University to earn a share of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's lacrosse regular season title Friday evening at the Granger Athletic Complex.

Babson, ranked fifth in Division III by the US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) and seventh by USA Lacrosse Magazine, has won five of its last six games to improve to 13-2 overall and 6-0 in the NEWMAC. Clark has dropped three in a row to fall to 1-13 overall and 0-6 in the conference.

Allen finished with two goals and five assists, senior Braden Reilly (Reading, Mass.) scored a career-high four goals, and junior Camden Matthews (Westford, Mass.) had a goal and two assists as a dozen different players tallied at least one goal for the Beavers. Sophomore Beck Trafton (Miami Beach, Fla.) won 8-of-17 face-offs, graduate student Hugh Curran (Needham, Mass.) and first-year Ryan Barsi (Piedmont, Calif.) combined for seven caused turnovers and seven ground balls, and sophomore Andrew Almquist (Wakefield, Mass.) made 13 saves on 17 shots in the first three quarters between the pipes.

Senior Thomas Michaud (Tyngsboro, Mass.) scored twice, sophomore Michael Berman Annunziata (Rye Brook, N.Y.) had a pair of assists, and senior Patrick O'Rourke (Newton, Mass.) won 13-of-19 face-offs and scooped up seven ground balls for the Cougars. Senior Lucas Cuda (Salinas, Calif.) had two caused turnovers and five ground balls, and first-year Luca Palleschi (East Rockaway, N.Y.) finished with 11 saves in the Clark goal in the setback.

The Beavers took control of the game with seven unanswered goals in the first quarter. Reilly notched three of the first six goals, and grad student Patrick McAleavey (Trumbull, Conn.) and senior Bennett Smith (Lake Oswego, Ore.) added one each as the Green and White took a 7-0 lead into the second quarter. McAleavey and Reilly kept the scoring parade going early in the second quarter with back-to-back strikes, and Matthews, who assisted on Reilly's marker, tacked on one of his own as the lead ballooned to 10-0 midway through the stanza.

The Cougars showed signs of life with a pair of goals, one each from sophomore Maxwell Biondi (Cranston, R.I.) and Michaud. The Beavers got those back when senior Luke D'Orsi (Jamestown, R.I.) scored with two minutes to go in the half and sophomore Chase Wightman (Little Compton, R.I.) added one with seven seconds left to make it a 12-2 margin at the intermission.

Senior Jackson Simon (Bellevue, Wash.) and Michaud exchanged goals early in the third quarter before the Beavers put the game out of reach with the next four goals of the third quarter, one each from D'Orsi, juniors Theo Breton (Fremont, N.H.) and Ethan Swenson (Phoenix, Ariz.) and first-year Cash McCoy (Englewood, Colo.). Clark senior Brett Newman (Cheshire, Conn.) scooped up the ensuing face-off after McCoy's goal and came down and beat the buzzer with a goal with five seconds on the clock to close out the quarter with Babson up by a dozen.

Each team potted one goal in the final frame, which came just 11 seconds apart. Junior Eric Aswad (Needham, Mass.) scored for the Cougars and sophomore Mark Brown (San Diego, Calif.) answered 11 seconds later.

Babson will conclude its regular season next Saturday when it travels to Cambridge to face MIT at 1 p.m. Clark wraps up its campaign next Saturday at Emerson at 7 p.m. in Boston.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is 27-3 all-time against Clark in a series that dates back to 1994 and has won the last six games since 2021 after Clark won three out of four from 2017-19. 
• The Green and White have beaten nine of their first 10 unranked opponents by at least 10 goals this season. 
• The Beavers are 30-5 in regular season NEWMAC games going back to the shortened 2021 season.
• Almquist registered his 13th win of the season, which ties the single-season program record for goalie wins that he now shares with Will Parducci (2023) and Alex Fascilla (2025).