WALTHAM, Mass. – Brendan Sencaj belted his 10^th home run of the season, and Pat Heber was stellar on the hill to lead the Bentley baseball team to an 8-2 win over Southern Connecticut Friday afternoon. The Falcons lost the second game of the Northeast-10 doubleheader, 5-4, in eight innings (scheduled seven-inning game).
 
Bentley 8, Southern Conn. 2
The Falcons wasted little time in swooping the Owls, as Bentley posted three runs in the opening stanza and never looked back. David VanderZouwen began the home half of the first inning with a single, and Sencaj immediately followed by launching a two-run homer over the left field fence.

With two outs on the board in the first, Jared Berardino and Jimmy Mitchell his consecutive singles, and then Jake Maydak came through with a base hit to plate Berardino.

The Falcons scored two more runs in the second inning, and once again Sencaj was in the middle of it. The sophomore hit a two-out double, and he came in to score on a triple by Nick Pappas. Stan DeMartinis III followed with a base hit that allowed Pappas to touch home plate. ,

Sencaj hit an RBI single in the fourth inning, scoring VanderZouwen after he reached base with a double. In the seventh inning, Sencaj lifted a sacrifice fly that scored Patrick Purcell.

Sencaj finished the game 4-for-5 with four RBI, and VanderZouwen went 3-for-6.

Heber allowed only one earned through his seven innings on the mound, improving his record to 4-2. He struck out five, walked one, and allowed just six hits.

Heber's season ERA dropped to 3.64, and he has a 1.87 ERA in his last five starts. 
 
 
Bentley 3, Southern Conn. 4 (8 inn.)
The Falcons erased an early 3-0 deficit, but the Owls topped Bentley in one extra inning for the second game of the Friday's doubleheader.

SCSU took a 3-0 lead in the first inning, but Bentley got all three runs back in the second. Mitchell started the rally by reaching base on an error, and he moved to third on a single by Maydak. Tommy Goonan then laid down a perfect squeeze bunt, and a defensive miscue allowed Goonan to reach first base as Mitchell scored.

With runners on first and second, Curt Heath put down a sacrifice bunt that advanced both runners. Two batters later, none other than Sencaj delivered a two-run single to tie the game, 3-3.

Neither team scored again through the following five innings. The Owls loaded the bases in the sixth inning, but relief pitcher Keegan Antelman ended the threat by getting a swinging third strike for the third out.

SCSU quietly scored the game-winning run in the eighth. A single, a wild pitch, a stolen base, and a sacrifice fly allowed the winning run to score.

Bentley next hosts New Haven for a doubleheader Sunday, April 27, starting at 12 p.m.