MANCHESTER, N.H. – Jared Berardino hit four home runs, including a grand slam, and the Bentley baseball team totaled 28 runs between a doubleheader clobbering at Saint Anselm Saturday afternoon. The Falcons improved to 25-12 (12-5 NE10), which is just four wins shy of tying last year's program record for wins in season.
 
Bentley 15, St. Anselm 9
The Falcons jumped all over the Hawks to take a 3-0 lead in the first inning, and Pat Heber allowed only one run through six innings to earn his third win of the season.

Bentley didn't even have to put the ball in play to score its first run in the first inning. Each of the first four batters were either walked or hit by a pitch, which forced in a run for a 1-0 lead. A wild pitch allowed a second run to score, and a Jake Maydak groundout plated the third run. The Falcons didn't record a hit during inning.

Still, Bentley totaled 10 hits in the game, including three extra-base hits in the Falcons' five-run sixth inning. Maydak led off with a double, Jimmy Mitchell was hit by a pitch, and Curt Heath drew a walk to load the bases.

David VanderZouwen brought in all three runners with a double down the left-field line. The very next batter – Brendan Sencaj – launched a two-run homer. It was his eighth home run of the season. Bentley had another five-run rally in the eighth inning. Four of those runs came via Berardino's grand slam.

Berardino's first home run of the day was a solo shot in the seventh inning.
 
Bentley 13, St. Anselm 1
Both Berardino and Nick Pappas homered twice, and Zach Eigenbrod hurled seven shutout innings, to lead Bentley to its second win over the Hawks.

Berardino launched a solo home run in the second inning, and he clubbed a two-run homer in the seventh. Pappas' first home run plated Sencaj in the fifth inning, and he added a solo homer in the eighth.

Stan DeMartinis III and VanderZouwen also got in on the home run brigade. DeMartinis hit a three-run homer in the fourth, and VanderZouwen hit a two-run homer in the sixth.

DeMartinis has a team-high nine home runs this season, while Berardino is up to six. For VanderZouwen, it was the second home run of his freshman season.

Eigenbrod allowed only three hits and walked two through his seven shutout innings. He struck out five while improving to 4-0 this season.

The Falcons and the Hawks have another doubleheader slated for Monday, April 21.