Baseball vs. No. 4/4 Salve Regina or MIT
NEWMAC Tournament | Game 8
Sunday, May 10 | 12 p.m.
Bill Beck Field | Kingston, 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. 4 MIT 8, No. 2 Wheaton 7
Game 6: No. 3 Babson 7, No. 1 Salve Regina 5

Sunday, May 10 | at the University of Rhode Island
Game 7: No. 4 MIT 6, No. 1 Salve Regina 1 (suspended, 6th inn.), 9:30 a.m.
Game 8: No. 3 Babson vs. Winner Game 7, 12 p.m.
Game 9: if necessary, 3 p.m. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    Babson enters the final day of the NEWMAC Tournament as the lone unbeaten following Saturday morning's win over No. 4/4 Salve Regina. 
•    The Beavers are back in the conference title game for the eighth time in the last 10 tournaments and await the winner of the elimination game between the Seahawks and MIT that was suspended due to rain with the Engineers leading 6-1 in the sixth inning on Saturday. 
•    The Green and White needs one win to capture its second NEWMAC title in the last three seasons, while either Salve Regina or MIT will need to defeat Babson twice on Sunday to earn the league's automatic bid the NCAA Tournament. 

2026 RESULTS
vs. Salve Regina
•    Babson is 2-1 against the Seahawks after splitting a pair of regular season matchups and winning Saturday's contest in Newport, R.I. 

vs. MIT
•    The Beavers split a doubleheader with the Engineers back on April 11 falling 12-11 in the opener despite holding a pair of four-run leads as well as an 11-8 advantage going to the top of the night before responding with a 14-1 seven-inning victory in game two. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    Third-seeded Babson (25-15) has won five in a row and nine of its last 10 games after defeating top-seeded and fourth-ranked Salve Regina, 7-5, on Saturday morning. 
•    Sophomore Gabe Harmon hit his first career home run, junior Ryan Liss went 3-for-4 with a go-ahead two-run homer in the top of the ninth and senior Zander Teator singled twice, drove in a run and recorded his seventh save with a perfect ninth inning for the Beavers, who got six strikeouts over 7.0 innings from graduate student Joe Carrea. 
•    Sophomore Ben Valente is batting .371 with eight extra-base hits, 16 stolen bases, 30 RBI and a team-high 43 runs scored, graduate student Ryan Grace is hitting .368 with 11 doubles, nine home runs, 27 walks, 40 RBI and 40 runs scored, and junior Dante D'Avanzo owns a .323 average to go along with six doubles, a homer, 27 RBI and 19 runs scored. 
•    Sophomore Graydon Vyse is 2-0 wtih a 3.47 ERA and 33 strikeouts against just five walks over 36.1 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 seven saves while striking out 20 batters in 11.0 innings over 12 appearances out of the bullpen this season. 

TOURNAMENT TRENDS
•    Teator is batting .545 (6-for-11) with two home runs, eight RBI and four runs scored at the dish to go along with two saves and four strikeouts in two relief appearances on the mound. 
•    The starting pitching trio of Vyse, Finkelstein and Carrea has gone 2-0 with a 4.70 ERA and 16 strikeouts and just one walk over 23.0 innings pitched. 
•    Sophomore Dylan Drazka is hitting .455 (5-for-11) with three stolen bases and six runs scored over three games. 
•    The Beavers are batting .444 (12-for-27) with runners in scoring position

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
•    Entering the tournament, 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 
•    Sophomore Jason 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). 

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 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. 
•    Sophomore Colin 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 20-5 this spring when scoring at least six runs. 
•    Babson is 16-2 when allowing five runs or fewer. 
•    The Green and White is 17-1 on the year when its starting pitcher goes at least 6.0 innings. 
•    The Beavers are 16-2 when recording more hits than its foes and 17-2 when they finish with 10 or more hits. 
•    Babson is 22-2 this spring when leading after seven innings. 
•    The Green and White is 8-5 in games decided by either one or two runs. 

UP NEXT
•    Sunday's conference champion will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.