With its sixth win in the last seven games, Babson is now 7-3 overall and remains unbeaten at 3-0 in conference play. Wheaton, which had won three straight, drops to 6-6 overall and 3-1 in the NEWMAC.
Senior McKenzie Tucci (Winchester, Mass.) scored twice, sophomore Charlotte O'Halloran
(Middletown, R.I.) chipped in with a goal and two assists, and junior Katie McKenna (Sandwich, Mass.) led all players with three assists for the Beavers. Junior Delaney Carroll (Acton, Mass.) finished with seven ground balls and four caused turnovers, while first-year Lauren Drakeley (Woodbury, Conn.) scooped up a career-high seven ground balls in the win.
Senior Brooke Sabol (Landgrove, Vt.) scored one goal to go along with five ground balls, three caused turnovers and two draw controls to lead the Lyons.
Tucci gave Babson an early 1-0 lead with her 10th goal of the season just 1:14 into the contest. Wheaton responded with three straight tallies to build a two-goal lead on Sabol's strike with 11:31 left in the first half. Bresnahan cut the Beavers deficit to 3-2 on a feed from from O'Halloran at the 8:19 mark, and then converted a pass from McKenna to tie the game just before halftime.
Burger came up with four big stops over the first five minutes of the second half, and Bresnahan notched her third straight goal to put the Green and White in front for good with 24:58 to play. McKenna set up Tucci's second goal to make it 5-3 at the 22:49 mark, and junior Francesca Giovanucci (Easton, Mass.) followed another Burger save with her 12th tally of the year to extend the Babson lead to 6-3 with 16:43 left in the game.
The Lyons snapped a scoring drought over 32 minutes when senior Katherine Kowal (Ossining, N.Y.) made it a two-goal game with 9:25 left, but O'Halloran buried a free-position shot with 3:31 remaining to ice the win.
Sophomore goalkeeper Molly Witten (Bethesda, Md.) finished five saves for Wheaton, which finished with a 7-5 edge in draw controls and a 22-21 advantage in ground balls. Both teams ended the game with 18 shots.
Both teams will return to action on Wednesday as Babson visits Wellesley at 4 p.m., while Wheaton travels to Emerson at 6:30 p.m.
GAME NOTES
• The Beavers are 21-16 all-time against Wheaton and snapped a four-game losing streak in the series with Saturday's win.
• The Green and White is off to a 3-0 start in conference play for the eighth time since 2006.
• Babson has now won six consecutive Saturday home games going back to the start of last season.
• The seven goals scored by the Beavers on Saturday are their fewest in a win since beating Amherst 7-6 on April 12, 2007.
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