Baseball at No. 4/4 Salve Regina
NEWMAC Tournament | Game 6
Saturday May | 9:30 a.m.
Reynolds Field | Newport, R.I.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Tuesday, May 5
Game 1: No. 3 Babson 14, No. 6 Clark 6
Game 2: No. 4 MIT 12, No. 5 Springfield 11

Friday, May 8
Game 3: No. 1 Salve Regina 13, No. 4 MIT 6
Game 4: No. 3 Babson 3, No. 2 Wheaton 2

Saturday, May 9 
Game 5: No. 2 Wheaton vs. No. 4 MIT, 9:30 a.m. (at the University of Rhode Island)
Game 6: No. 3 Babson at No. 1 Salve Regina, 9:30 a.m.
Game 7: Winner Game 5 vs. Loser Game 6, 1:30 p.m. (at the University of Rhode Island)

Sunday, May 10 | at highest remaining seed
Game 8: Winner Game 6 vs. Winner Game 7, 11 a.m.
Game 9: if necessary, 2 p.m. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 14-9 all-time against Salve Regina in a series that dates back to 1986.
•    The Beavers have dropped five of six regular season meetings to the Seahawks since they joined the NEWMAC prior to the 2024 campaign, but were 14-12 winners back in April to split the regular season series. 
•    The Green and White is 1-3 over its last four games at Reynolds Field. 

POSTSEASON HISTORY
•    Babson is 3-0 all-time in the postseason versus Salve Regina, which includes an 8-1 victory in the only NEWMAC Tournament contest between the teams back in 2024. 
•    The Beavers also defeated the Seahawks twice in the 2017 NCAA Regional in Harwich, Mass. 

LAST MEETING
•    Junior Ryan Liss hit a go-ahead grand slam as part of a six-run eighth-inning uprising to help the Beavers rally for a 14-12 win over then-No. 3/4 Salve Regina on April 14 in Babson Park. 
•    Senior Owen Stephens, junior Dante D'Avanzo and first-year Bobby Christensen all homered, while senior Zander Teator, classmate Ryan Hvozdovic and sophomores Ben Valente and Colin Chou finished with two hits apiece for Babson, which trailed 9-3 going to the bottom of the fifth.
•    Williams homered twice, Jake Harring went 3-for-5 with home run and five RBI and Dylan Cimini also went deep as part of a four-hit day for the Seahawks, who pounded out 17 hits in the loss. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Third-seeded Babson (23-15) has won four in a row and eight of its last nine games after rallying to defeat second-seeded Wheaton 3-2 on Friday afternoon
•    Valente had an RBI single, Teator went 2-for-4 and drove in the tying and go-ahead runs in the top of eighth inning before recording the final three outs of the game for the Beavers, who got six strikeouts over 8.0 innings from junior Jason Finkelstein in the win. 
•    Valente is batting .371 with eight extra-base hits, 16 stolen bases, 30 RBI and a team-high 43 runs scored, Grace is hitting .368 with 11 doubles, nine home runs, 27 walks, 40 RBI and 40 runs scored, and D'Avanzo owns a .323 average to go along with six doubles, a homer, 27 RBI and 19 runs scored. 
•    Graduate student Joe Carrea is 3-2 with a 4.97 ERA and 40 strikeouts over 41.2 innings pitched this spring, classmate Chase Burrows is 4-1 with a 5.63 ERA and 26 strikeouts against just six walks in 40.0 innings, and Teator has recorded six saves while striking out 18 batters in 10.0 innings over 11 appearances out of the bullpen this season. 

SCOUTING THE SEAHAWKS
•    Top-seeded and fourth-ranked Salve Regina (35-4) has won eight consecutive games and opened the NEWMAC Tournament with a 13-6 victory over fourth-seeded MIT on Friday. 
•    Elliot Hamilton was 3-for-5 with a double and three RBI, Evan O'Rourke doubled and knocked in three runs as part of a two-hit day, and Williams was 3-for-4 with two walks, an RBI and a run scored for the Seahawks, who finished with 15 hits and jumped out to a 5-0 lead through four innings. 
•    Danny Rogers, who owns a 17-game hit streak, is batting .449 with 13 extra-base hits, 35 RBI and 47 runs scored, Hamilton is hitting .390 with 11 doubles, four homers, 34 RBI and 42 runs scored, and Williams owns a .381 average to go along with 13 homers, 11 doubles, 22 stolen bases, 58 RBI and 59 runs scored. 
•    Nolan Romanowski is 10-0 with a 2.75 ERA and 61 strikeouts against just 10 walks in 75.1 innings pitched, Ethan Santerre (2-0, 0.00 ERA) boasts a 0.71 WHIP and has 14 strikeouts in 12.2 innings over eight relief appearances, and James Keating is 3-0 with a 2.20 ERA and 20 strikeouts over 16.1 innings out of the bullpen. 

BABSON IN THE POSTSEASON
•    Babson claimed its seventh conference title (1996, 1997, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2018, 2024) by winning three consecutive elimination games in the 2024 NEWMAC Tournament. 
•    The Beavers have reached the championship round in seven of the last nine conference tournaments dating back to 2016. 
•    Babson has now opened NEWMAC Tournament play with a win in five of the last six seasons and seven times in 10 tries since 2016. 
•    In each of its last three NEWMAC championships (2017, 2018, 2024), the Green and White has defeated Wheaton twice in the conference tournament. 

LEAGUE LEADERS
•    Grace ranks third in the NEWMAC in OPS (1.145), fourth in RBI (40) and fifth in home runs (9), total bases (87), walks (27) and slugging percentage (.654). 
•    Teator ranks second in the conference having been hit by a pitch 16 times, Drazka is tied for fifth in walks (25) and eighth  in the league in stolen bases (18), while Valente is eighth in the NEWMAC with 43 runs scored. 
•    Liss is tied for the conference lead with a career-high four triples 
•    Finkelstein ranks first among all qualified pitchers holding opposing hitters to a .187 average and hits allowed per nine innings (6.02), is tied for third in wins (4) alongside Burrows and ranks eighth in strikeouts (38). 
•    Teator is second in the NEWMAC with five saves and Carrea ranks seventh with 40 strikeouts. 

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    Teator matched the Beavers' single-season hit by pitch record set by Travis Jonasson '12 in 2011 and was equaled by Justin Guest '25 last spring. 
•    Teator struck out the side in the ninth inning of Saturday's 4-3 game one win over WPI to become the first pitcher in program history to record five or more saves in three consecutive seasons. His 17 saves are second on Babson's career list behind only Matt Cuneo '18, who registered 20 from 2015-18. 
•    Grace's nine home runs are tied for fifth on the program's single-season list and are the most since Brant Savage '24 M'25 hit 11 back in 2023. 
•    Finkelstein's 15 career wins are tied for sixth on the Babson's career list, while his 130 strikeouts are tied for 10th all-time. 

STRONG STARTING STUFF
•    Over the final six games of the regular season dating back to its April 25 doubleheader against Clark, Babson's starting pitchers have gone 5-0 with a 2.66 ERA, a 0.89 WHIP and 42 strikeouts against just 11 walks over 44.0 innings. 
•    Finkelstein and graduate student Joe Carrea both gave the Green and White 8.0 innings while combining for 17 strikeouts the April 25 sweep of Clark, senior Connor Doan fanned three and gave up four runs in his longest outing of the season (7.0 IP) last Sunday at Keene State, and Vyse recorded the longest outing of his career going 8.0 innings and striking out five on Tuesday versus Springfield. 
•    Finkelstein gave up two earned runs to go along with seven strikeouts over 7.0 innings in game one last Saturday at WPI, while Carrea recorded a career-high 10 strikeouts over 6.0 innings in game two versus the Engineers. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Valente enters Friday's contest with a 13-game hitting streak and has reached base safely in 29 consecutive starts dating back to March 15. 
•    D'Avanzo has at least one hit in 12 straight outings and owns a 17-game on-base streak, while Teator owns a six-game hitting streak and has reached base safely in 16 consecutive outings. 
•    Grace leads the Green and White with 15 multi-hit and 13 multi-RBI games, while Valente is second on the squad with 12 multi-hit and nine multi-RBI outings this spring. 
•    Chou, who hit his first career home run on Saturday at WPI, finished the day with four RBI, while Drazka and Teator both walked five times over two games versus the Engineers. 
•    D'Avanzo has at least one RBI in 10 of the last 11 games, Drazka has scored 16 runs over the last eight contests and Teator has a double in six of his last 11 outings. 
•    The Beavers finished with one error or fewer in each of their final six regular season games. 

TWO BALL
•    Babson ranks third in Division III in doubles plays per game (1.03) and is fourth nationally with 39 double plays on the year. 
•    The Beavers have turned a double play in four straight games and have at least one twin killing in 14 of their last 18 contests dating back to April 9. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers are 19-5 this spring when scoring at least six runs. 
•    Babson is 15-2 when allowing five runs or fewer. 
•    The Green and White is 16-1 on the year when its starting pitcher goes at least 6.0 innings. 
•    The Beavers are 15-2 when recording more hits than its foes and 16-2 when they finish with 10 or more hits. 
•    Babson is 22-2 this spring when leading after seven innings. 
•    The Green and White is 7-5 in games decided by either one or two runs. 

UP NEXT
•    The winner will advance to Sunday's NEWMAC Tournament final, while the loser will travel to the University of Rhode Island in Kingston to face either third-seeded Wheaton or fourth-seeded MIT in an elimination game beginning at approximately 1:30 p.m.