Softball vs. MIT
Saturday, April 4 | 12 p.m. (DH) 
Alumni Field | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 47-32 all-time against MIT in a series that dates back to 1988.
•    The Beavers and Engineers have split their last three regular season doubleheaders since 2023, which includes three of the six games being decided by either one or two runs.
•    The Green and White also is 3-3 versus MIT at Alumni Field since 2022. 

LAST MEETING
•    Layla Thiessen went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and MIT scored twice over each of the first three innings on the way to defeating Babson, 7-3, in the NEWMAC Tournament final on May 11, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. 
•    Ava Ladd came through with a two-run single in the second, Maggie Feng and Delaney Benevides each drove in a run in the third, and Caroline Langmeyer retired nine of the 10 batters she faced over the final three innings for the Engineers, who captured their third consecutive NEWMAC championship.
•    Sara Moore '25 went 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI, senior Sophia Pak singled three times and scored a run, and junior Charlotte Raymond drove in two runs with a third-inning single for the Beavers. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Babson (9-9, 1-1 NEWMAC) has won three of its last four games after finishing off a sweep of Tuesday's doubleheader against Framingham State with a 3-0 victory. 
•    Raymond, junior Devin McCall and sophomore Belle DiCampello each recorded an RBI single in the bottom of the first and junior Katie Vlacich struck out six and gave up just three hits over six shutout innings for the Beavers, who rallied for a 5-2 win over the Rams in game one of the twin bill.
•    DiCampello is batting .357 with six extra-hits, 13 RBI and three runs scored, junior Emily Walsh is hitting. 333 with five extra-base hits, eight runs batted in and 15 runs scored, and junior Lexi Sealey enters the weekend with a .298 average to go along with six doubles, a triple, one home run, nine RBI and seven runs scored. 
•    First-year Anna Ziccardi is 4-1 with a 1.46 earned run average and 22 strikeouts over 33.2 innings pitched, classmate Anna Topel is 2-4 with a 4.37 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 33.2 innings, and Vlacich is 1-4 with a 4.78 ERA and 22 strikeouts in 26.1 innings of work this spring. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    MIT (15-3, 3-1 NEWMAC) has won three of its last four games and salvaged a split of its opening conference doubleheader by beating Emerson 6-1 last Sunday. 
•    Thiessen went 2-for-3 with a double, Lauren Sundquist hit a two-run homer and Emily Watson struck out three and allowed just one run on two hits in a complete-game effort for the Engineers, who bounced back from a 7-5 eight-inning loss to the Lions in game one. 
•    Thiessen is batting .450 with two doubles, 13 stolen bases, five RBI and 11 runs scored, Holland Poe is hitting .407 with four doubles, 14 RBI and 16 runs scored, and Ladd boasts a .404 average to go along with nine extra-base hits, 16 RBI and 15 runs scored for an offense that is averaging nearly eight runs per game. 
•    Sharona Huang is 2-1 with a 1.96 earned run average over 25.0 innings, Sarah Blackett (6-1, 2.38 ERA) has recorded four shutouts in seven starts while recording 53 strikeouts in 47.0 innings, and Watson is 4-0 with a 4.30 ERA in 29.1 innings pitched over eight appearances this spring. 

STREAKING BEAVERS
•    Walsh has reached base safely in eight consecutive games, McCall owns a seven-game on-base streak and sophomore Maddy DeLong has reached at least once in five straight outings going back to March 21. 
•    DiCampello recorded two hits in each of Babson's wins over Framingham State and enters Saturday's twin bill riding a three-game hitting streak. 
•    Vlacich has allowed two earned runs or fewer in each of her last three starts and boasts a 1.53 earned run average to go along with 14 strikeouts and just four walks over her last 18.1 innings. 
•    The Green and White has recorded at least one double in six consecutive outings. 

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. 

HOME SWEET HOME
•    The Beavers went 10-3 at Alumni Field last spring and closed the year by winning three straight and five of their last six contests. 
•    Since the start of the 2024 campaign, Babson is 24-7 at home, which includes a 19-5 record NEWMAC foes. 
•    The Green and White also finished 3-2 in one-run games at Alumni Field in 2025. 

BABSON TRENDS
•    The Beavers turned eight double players over their first 12 games of the season, which is already two more than all of the 2025 campaign. 
•    Walsh is batting .421 (8-for-19) with runners in scoring position and leads the team with eight two-out RBI.
•    DiCampello is 8-for-20 (.400) with runners in scoring position, has six two-out RBI and leads the Green and White with four multi-RBI games. 
•    The Beavers' pitching staff has allowed just three home runs this season and none over the last 11 games. 
•    Pak was 6-for-12 (.500) with an RBI and a run scored, while Raymond batted .346 (4-of-11) with two RBI and two runs scored in four games against MIT last season.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 8-1 when scoring at least three runs this season and 6-1 when they score first. 
•    Babson is 8-0 on the year when leading but just 1-8 when trailing after four innings.
•    The Green and White is 6-1 this spring and 29-8 going back to last year when recording more hits than its opponents. 
•    The Beavers are 3-3 in games decided by one or two runs this year. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson is back at Alumni Field on Tuesday when it hosts UMass Boston in a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.