Babson Park, MA --- Senior co-captain Colleen
Kelly (Milton, MA) had three first half assists to break
the all-time Babson record for assists in a career and first-year
Morgan Lockwood (Feeding Hills, MA) scored five
goals to set another Babson record as the Beavers sailed to a 9-0
victory over visiting WPI on Saturday afternoon in a NEWMAC
contest. With the win, Babson improves to 7-2 on the season and
remains undefeated in NEWMAC play at 3-0. WPI is now 4-6 on the
year and 0-2 in the NEWMAC.
Lockwood scored her first of five goals just a minute into the
contest and went on the score three more in the half as the Beavers
took a solid 6-0 lead to enter the break. Babson never looked back
and went on to score an additional three goals in the second half
on their way to the 9-0 win.
The previous single-game record of four goals was held by
Lockwood herself along with two other individuals from years past.
The rookie scored four goals in the September 7th showdown against
Eastern Connecticut State University where she also broke the
record for most points in a game with 11. Lockwood, who is just
nine games into her collegiate career already holds two single-game
Babson records.
Kelly, a two-time All-New England player, assisted three of
Lockwood's first half goals which lifted her to ten assists on the
season bringing her career total to 35 and putting her on top of
the all-time Babson assist list. She surpasses Babson great and
two-time First Team All-American, Elise Conley '06, who held the
previous record at 33 assists.
Along with Lockwood's five goals, junior forward
Courtney Weaving (New Preston, CT) tallied two
goals and one assist while Kelly also added a goal of her own in
addition to her three assists. Sophomore Kelly
Walsh (Gardner, MA) added one goal and one assist and
senior co-captain Sarah Fredlund (New Preston, CT)
chipped in with three assists.
Junior goalkeeper Jess Pashos (Winchester, MA)
made one save in 48 minutes of play and first-year Kayla
Florence (Milton, MA) finished out the game making three
total saves. Sophomore Aly Caceres
(Fall River, Mass.) and first-year Liz Dufresne
(Worcester, Mass.) split the time in net for WPI combining for
seven saves. Junior defender Katelyn
Comeau (Goffstown, NH) also made a defensive save for
the Engineers.
Saturday was also Babson's third annual Play For the Cure game.
As a part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month the Babson College field
hockey team accepted donations throughout the day to be given to
the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation. The team showed their
support by wearing pink tee-shirts during warm-up and the game was
played with a pink Play For the Cure ball.
Babson continues NEWMAC play on Tuesday evening when the visit
Clark for a 7pm game. WPI hosts MIT for a Tuesday night match at
7pm.
Release Courtesy Babson Sports Information