No. 3 Men's Lacrosse vs. Massachusetts Maritime
NCAA Tournament | Second Round
Saturday, May 9 | 12:00 p.m.
MacDowell Field | Babson Park, Mass.

WHAT TO KNOW
•  Babson College will be the home site for NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Tournament games for the second year in a row when it hosts two games on Saturday and one on Sunday at MacDowell Field.
• The No. 3 Beavers will meet Massachusetts Maritime in a second-round game at 12 p.m. on Saturday, followed by No. 15 Hamilton vs. No. 20 St. Lawrence at 3 p.m. The two winners will meet in a third-round match-up on Sunday at 3 p.m.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Saturday, May 9 | Second Round
No. 3 Babson (16-2) vs. Massachusetts Maritime (16-2), 12 p.m. 
No. 15 Hamilton (9-7) vs. No. 20 St. Lawrence (11-6), 3 p.m.
Sunday, May 10 | Regional Final
Second Round winners, 3 p.m. 

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson is 28-1 all-time against Massachusetts Maritime in a series that dates back to 1978.
• The Beavers have won 23 in a row over the Buccaneers with the most recent meeting coming in 2019.
• Many of the games in the series were when both schools were members of the now-defunct Pilgrim Lacrosse League from 2003-2013, which became part of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) in 2014.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
NCAA Tournament Appearance: 6th
Best NCAA Finish: 2025 quarterfinals 
• Babson (16-2), ranked third in Division III by the USILA, earned a fourth straight NCAA berth by defeating MIT, 15-9, in the NEWMAC tournament final last Saturday at MacDowell Field.
• Graduate students Joey Allen (3g, 3a) and Patrick McAleavey (4g, 1a) combined for seven goals and four assists, tournament Most Outstanding Player Tyee Ambrosh caused two turnovers and collected a pair of ground balls, and top-seeded and Babson scored six unanswered goals while holding MIT scoreless for a 21-minute stretch in the second half. Senior Jack Feeks tallied two goals and two assists and senior Bennett Smith scored twice, while grad student Mason Dorr had a pair of caused turnovers and joined sophomore Mark Brown with five ground balls apiece. Sophomore goalie Andrew Almquist made 11 saves for his 13th double-digit save performance while also scoring his first career goal.
• Allen (40-24-64) is in the top five in the NEWMAC in goals, assists and points, Smith (25-28-53) is third in the league in assists and sixth in points, and senior Braden Reilly (21-23-44), juniors Camden Matthews (29-11-40) and Seamus Rooney (25-9-34) and McAleavey (26-4-30) give the Beavers six players with at least 20 goals and 30 points. Grad student Beau Burns has won 74.1 percent of his face-offs (169-228) and leads the team with 124 ground balls and sophomore Beck Trafton (.467) has won 71-of-152 face-offs.
• Ambrosh (19 CT, 31 GB) and Dorr (18 CT, 41 GB) have combined for 37 caused turnovers and 72 ground balls. Juniors Ryan St. Onge, Ellis McDonald and Bruno Batty anchor a Beaver defense that ranks 18th in Division III conceding 8.06 goals per game. Almquist (8.29 GAA,.613 sv. pct., 225 svs) leads the NEWMAC in GAA, save percentage and total saves.

SCOUTING THE BUCCANEERS
NCAA Tournament Appearance: 1st
• Mass. Maritime (16-2), coming off its first Little East Conference (LEC) championship last Saturday with a 13-10 triumph over Western Connecticut, recorded a 28-17 victory over Husson in a first-round game on Wednesday in its first career appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
• Sophomore James Sullivan (8g, 2a) registered a career-high 10 points, senior Daniel Kane (3g, 4a) added seven points, and classmate Ryan McDonough (3g, 1a) and sophomore Chilton Cabot (1g, 3a) chipped in with four points for the Buccaneers, who produced a season-high offensive output with their fifth 20-plus goals performance. Sophomore Cole Jenkins won 31-of-35 faceoffs and scooped up 18 ground balls, first-year Colin Fitzsimmons won 11-of-14, and senior Seamus Buckley and sophomore Will Dykeman each caused three turnovers. First-years Nicholas Hall (2) and Jonathan Visser (3) combined for just five saves in goal in the win.
• Kane (43-39-82) and Sullivan (55-21-76) give the Buccaneers a strong 1-2 punch on offense, junior Quinn Mucha (36-20-56) is a 50-point scorer, and Cabot (29-21-50) and McDonough (24-14-38) are offensive threats as well. Jenkins has won 68.9 percent of his face-offs (237-of-344) and Fitzsimmons has won 64.3 percent (81-of-126).
• Sullivan is second in the LEC with 46 caused turnovers and Buckley has forced 22 miscues. Hall (9.33 GAA, .553 sv. pct, 156 svs) has started 16 of the 18 games in goal for the Buccaneers while Visser (10.06 GAA, .582 sv. pct, 39 svs) has made seven appearances with two starts.

BABSON IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT 
• After competing in just one NCAA Tournament appearance (1979) in the first 50 years of the program, the Beavers are making their fifth NCAA Tournament appearance in the last six seasons and the sixth in program history, posting a 3-5 record in their first five showings.
• The Green and White routed Western Connecticut in the opening round last season in Babson Park, 24-4, before falling to No. 5 Wesleyan in the second round, 16-7, in Middletown, Conn.
• Babson defeated No. 19 Denison in the second round of the 2024 tournament, 12-10, before falling to No. 2/3 RIT, 23-16, in the third round in Rochester, N.Y.
• The Green and White defeated Williams, 16-10, in the second round of the 2023 championships for the program's first NCAA Tournament win before falling to RIT, 20-9, in the third round.
• The first NCAA appearance for Babson was back in 1979, when the Beavers fell to Maryland-Baltimore County in the Division II tourney, 22-7, in Baltimore.

TOURNAMENT TESTED
• Smith and Tyee Ambrosh have each played in six NCAA Tournament games, with Smith scoring 10 goals and five assists and Ambrosh collecting six ground balls and causing four turnovers.
• Matthews (6g, 3a), Feeks (1g ,1a),  and juniors Luke Wang (4g, 3a) and Rowan Mondello (1a) have all appeared in four NCAA Tournament games, while Batty (4 GB, 1 CT), St. Onge (2 GB, 2 CT) and senior Will Reading (32-58 FO, 15 GB, 1g) have seen action in three NCAA games.
• Rooney (6g, 6a) has played in two NCAA games, Reilly (2g, 2a) has played in one game, and Almquist (1 GA, 5 svs) has seen action in roughly 10 minutes off the bench in two games.

SMITH, ALMQUIST, COACHES RECEIVE MAJOR AWARDS AS 10 BEAVERS NAMED ALL-NEWMAC
• Smith was named Athlete of the Year, Almquist was tabbed Defensive Player of the Year, and Rocky Batty and his assistants were named Coaching Staff of the Year when the NEWMAC announced its postseason awards on Thursday. 
• Smith and Almquist were joined on the All-Conference First Team by Allen, Burns, Dorr, Ambrosh, St Onge, and Bruno Batty, while McAleavey and Rooney were Second Team honorees.
• It was the third All-Conference selections for Smith and Rooney and the others were recognized for the first time in their respective careers.

COMMON OPPONENTS
• There are four common opponents on the 2026 schedules for Babson and Mass Maritime: 
 

Opponent	Babson	Mass. Maritime
Wheaton	W, 19-8	L, 17-10
Clark	W, 18-5	W, 18-11
UMass Boston	W, 18-5	W-OT, 16-15; W, 15-10
Salve Regina	W, 16-6	W, 17-9

MACDOWELL MENACES
• The Beavers bring a 8-2 home record into the weekend with wins in 18 of their last 21 home games dating back to last season.
• The Green and White have won 27 of their last 30 home games going back to the start of the 2024 campaign.
• In the 10 home games this season, Babson has outscored its opponents 155-71.
• Since 2016, the Beavers have won 11 consecutive postseason home games, 10 in the NEWMAC Tournament in addition to last year's NCAA first-round contest.

BETWEEN THE PIPES
• Almquist has been outstanding in the crease for the Beavers in his first year as the starter, posting double-digit saves in 13 of his 18 games.
• The Babson sophomore is ranked seventh in Division III in save percentage (.613) and 15th in goals against average (8.29).
• Almquist owns the single-season program record with 16 wins this season in goal, and his 225 saves is second on the program's single-season saves list.

CLIMBING THE CHARTS
• Smith (77-103-180) became the third player in program history to record 100 assists and is in sixth place on the Babson career scoring list with 180 points.
• Rooney has moved up to 13th on the program's career goal scoring list with 91 goals, and is also tied for 14th with Spencer Low (2013-16) on the career points list with 139.
• Burns has produced 169 face-off wins this year, which ranks seventh on the Babson single-season face-off wins list, and his 124 ground balls are third-most in a season in program history.
• Tyee Ambrosh has moved into a tie with Cam Spofford (2011-14) and John Clausing (2011-13) for 15th place all-time with 40 caused turnovers.

BEAVER BITES
• Smith has multiple points in 16 of 18 games this season, and he is the only Beaver who has points in all 16 games.
• Allen has at least three points in 10 of his last 11 games and at least one point in 16 of his 17 appearances.
• Rooney brings a 34-game point streak into the weekend dating back to the start of last season.
• Matthews has three points in six of his last eight games and 11 of his 17 outings. McAleavey has points in 17 of his 18 games this spring.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• The Green and White have won 30 in a row since the start of last year when scoring at least 10 goals.
• The Beavers are 13-1 this season and 24-3 going back to last spring when holding a lead at halftime.
• Since the start of the 2024 campaign, Babson is 37-4 when winning at least 50 percent of its face-offs. 
• Going back to 2023, the Beavers are 10-3 in the month of May. 

UP NEXT
• The winner of Saturday's game will advance to a third-round match-up against either No. 15 Hamilton or No. 20 St. Lawrence on Sunday at 3 p.m. at MacDowell Field.