Marlborough, Mass.- The NEWMAC has announced its Athlete of the Week honorees for the week ending 3/16/25.  The full list of honorees can be found below.
 
Baseball
 
Athlete of the Week- Justin Guest (Sr., 1B), Babson College
 
Senior Justin Guest (West Windsor, N.J.) batted .467 (7-for-15) with a pair of multi-hit games, two doubles, one home run and four RBI in four games for No. 19/30 Babson. He went 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBI in an 8-4 win over No. 20 Rhodes and doubled and scored in a 4-3 victory over Coe on Saturday. Guest followed it up by matching his career high with four hits, including a double, while reaching base five times, knocking in a run and scoring once in Sunday's 11-5 loss to No. 17/23 Rowan.
 
Pitcher of the Week- Brayden Clark (Gr., P), Salve Regina University
 
Graduate student Brayden Clark (Beverly, Mass.) improved to 4-0 on the season and lowered his earned run average (1.48) after working five innings and allowing just four hits and no earned runs against. He struck out eight Gators en route to his fourth straight victory.
 
Men's Lacrosse

Offensive Athlete of the Week- Dan Naglieri (Jr., A), Salve Regina University

Junior Dan Naglieri (Westhampton Beach, N.Y.) had three goals and nine assists on a 2-0 week.  He had three goals and seven assists in a 24-10 victory vs USMMA.  He also had two assists in an 11-6 victory over USCGA. He is the leading scorer for the 7-1 Seahawks with 12 goals and 26 assists.

Defensive Athlete of the Week- Kaden Quirk (Sr., GK), Springfield College

Senior Kaden Quirk (Nahant, Mass.) made ten saves for the Pride in a 9-6 win over nationally ranked Babson on Saturday. Quirk's defensive efforts held the potent Beavers offense to its lowest goal output in three seasons and snapped Babson's 17 game NEWMAC winning streak. He also made 17 saves in a loss at No. 7 Amherst.

Face-Off Specialist of the Week – Adam Laber (Jr., FO), Salve Regina University

Junior Adam Laber (Barnstable, Mass.) was 24-32 (75%) on face offs on the week. He was 16-18 on face offs with nine ground balls in a 24-10 victory vs USMMA.  He also was 8-14 with two ground balls on face offs in an 11-6 victory over USCGA.
 
Women's Lacrosse

Offensive Athlete of the Week- Gabs Smart (Sr., A), Wheaton College

Senior Gabs Smart (Oakland, Maine) tallied 11 goals and three assists for 14 points, while adding nine draw controls, four ground balls and five caused turnovers in three games. Smart was extremely consistent, registering four or more points in every match. She began the week with a career-high six points on four goals and two assists to go with a draw control in a 14-13 win at Worcester State University on March 10. The senior came back to days later to net four goals in addition to winning a draw, picking up four ground balls and causing four turnovers in an 11-9 win over Johnson & Wales University. Smart capped the week with three goals, an assist, seven draw controls and a caused turnover to help Wheaton to a 13-5 win at Clark University on March 15.

Defensive Athlete of the Week- Adelaide Baird (Fy., M), Salve Regina University

First year Adelaide Baird (Springfield, Va.) led the Seahawks to their first win of the season and a conference win over Wellesley with five draw controls, three caused turnovers and three ground balls last week. She also chipped in a goal in the win. 
 
Softball
 
Athlete of the Week- Sandy Fairbairn (So., SS), WPI
 
Sophomore Sandy Fairbairn (Norton, Mass.) opened her sophomore stint with 12 hits including a trio of doubles and four home runs to drive in eight runs in and just one strikeout in 25 at bats. Fairbairn totaled 27 total bases, including five stolen bases on all five attempts en route to scoring 14 runs helping the Engineers to a 6-2 record. The sophomore middle infielder registered a .480/.536/1.080 slash line throughout the spring break trip for WPI. 
 
Pitcher of the Week- Cameron Whiteford (Gr., P), Babson College
 
Graduate student Cameron Whiteford (Centerville, Md.) went 2-0 with a pair of shutouts and a no-hitter in her first two starts for Babson over the weekend. She struck out 11 while recording the first no-hitter of her career in an 8-0 five-inning victory over Clarkson on Saturday and followed it up by spinning a four-hit shutout that included eight strikeouts in the Beavers 8-0 five-inning win over Wisconsin-River Falls on Sunday.  Whiteford boasts a 0.80 WHIP and held opposing hitters to a .125 average over 10.0 innings.
 
Men's Tennis
 
Singles Player of the Week – Filippo Nocchi (So.), Emerson College
 
Sophomore Filippo Nocchi (Pontedera, Italy) posted a 3-0 record at the No. 1 singles position, winning in straight-sets in all three matches. 
 
Doubles Team of the Week – Ole Lepsoe and Alexander Merson, Babson College
 
Ole Lepsoe and Alexander Merson recorded a 6-4 win at number one doubles to help No. 18 Babson upset No. 6 Middlebury, 5-2, on Sunday. The Beavers' top pairing won the final three games to erase a 4-3 deficit on the way to winning the doubles point in the program's first victory over a top-10 opponent in school history. 
 
Women's Tennis
 
Singles Player of the Week – Chloe Zeng (Fy.), MIT
 
First year Chloe Zeng (Austin, Texas) recorded a pair of victories in the No. 1 singles position. Against No. 14 Tufts on Wednesday, she raced out to a 5-0 lead over Melanie Woodbury in the first set en route to a 6-3 victory. In a back-and-forth second set, Woodbury forced a tiebreaker. Zeng won three of the first four points and held off Woodbury for a 7-5 decision. Although the Engineers fell to the Jumbos, 5-2, six matches went to a tiebreaker while a trio of singles matches were decided in three sets. On Saturday in a 7-0 win over Hamilton, Zeng established early leads in both sets as she defeated Hannah Apsey, 6-3, 6-3.
 
Doubles Team of the Week – Olivia Soffer & Matia Cristiani, Babson College
 
Olivia Soffer and Matia Cristiani improved to 9-1 on the year with a 6-1 victory at number one doubles over Alexis Golin and Lucy Erickson as No. 17 Babson blanked No. 39 Chapman on Sunday afternoon. 
 
About the NEWMAC

The NEWMAC is an association of 12 selective academic institutions: Babson College, Clark University, U.S Coast Guard Academy, Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, Salve Regina University, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, that are committed to providing high quality competitive athletic opportunities for student-athletes within an educational and respectful environment that embodies the NCAA Division III Philosophy. The conference also partners with four Associate Members: Norwich University (Football), Simmons College (Rowing), SUNY Maritime College (Football), and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Football), while sponsoring 20 sports.