NEWMAC Tournament Semifinal
Salve Regina vs. Babson
Thursday, November 5 | 1:00 p.m. 
Reynolds Field | Newport, R.I.

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SERIES HISTORY

• Babson is 11-0-1 all-time against Salve Regina in a series that dates back to 2001.
• The Beavers and Seahawks will meet for just the fifth time as conference foes on Thursday with three of the previous four matches having been decided by either a single goal or in a deadlock. 
• The Green and White is 1-0-1 in two trips to Newport, R.I., since 2023 although both games were played off campus at Toppa Field. 

POSTSEASON HISTORY

• Thursday's game will be the second in the NEWMAC playoffs for the Seahawks. 

LAST MEETING

• Junior Lillian McAughan finished with two goals and one assist and the Beavers scored four times in the span of 16 minutes late in the second half to pull away for a 4-2 win over Salve Regina on October 14 in Babson Park.
• McAughan opened the scoring in the fifth minute and completed her brace in the 77th minute, junior Josie Lee notched the go-ahead goal in the 68th minute and senior Priscilla-Rose Men-Martin converted an 84th-minute penalty kick for Babson, which finished with a 22-8 edge in shots.
• Allie Gallagher tied the game in the 66th minute and Carah Leclair added a 90th-minute tally for the Seahawks, who got 11 saves from Sabina Lawless. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS

• Sixth-seeded Babson (8-8-4) has won back-to-back games after rallying for a 3-2 overtime victory over third-seeded Wheaton on Tuesday afternoon.
• McAughan scored in the 51st minute, Men-Martin buried a penalty kick with 1:56 to go in regulation and Lee scored the 94th-minute game winner for the Beavers, who trailed 2-0 less than 10 minutes into the match.
• Men-Martin (8-4-20) ranks eighth in the NEWMAC in goals and ninth in points, McAughan (5-5-15) leads the team in assists and has three over the last two games, and sophomore Izzy Lee (5-1-11) is tied for the team lead with two game-winning goals.
• Senior Callahan Cottone has started all 20 games and owns a 1.06 goals against average and a .800 save percentage to go along with four shutouts. 

SCOUTING THE SEAHAWKS

• Second-seeded Salve Regina (11-3-5) is unbeaten over its last five matches after rallying for a pair of second-half goals in a 2-1 victory over seventh-seeded Clark in Tuesday's conference quarterfinals.
• Tori Spadavecchia tied the game in the 49th minute and Allie Gallagher notched the go-ahead goal less than three minutes later for the Seahawks, who got six saves from Sabrina Lawless to win its first NEWMAC postseason match four years after joining the league.
• Sienna Mastroianni (9-2-20) is tied for sixth in the conference in goals, Gallagher (7-5-19) has produced a point in six of the last eight games, Paige Jessuck (5-5-15) is tied for the team lead in assists and Leclair (6-1-13) leads the squad with three game-winning goals.
• Lawless (10-2-4) has started 14 of 19 games and ranks second in the conference in both goals against average (0.80) and save percentage (.873) to go along with six shutouts this fall.

TODAY'S GAME COULD FINISH TIED, BUT ...

• No overtime was played during regular season contests for the fourth consecutive season, but all postseason matches will feature two 10-minute sudden-death overtime periods if a game is deadlocked at the end of regulation.
• If the game remains tied after both overtime sessions, a winner will be decided by penalty kicks.

UP NEXT

• The winner of Thursday's semifinal will face either top-seeded and fifth-ranked MIT or fourth-seeded WPI in Saturday's NEWMAC Tournament final.