WALTHAM, Mass. – The No. 26 Bentley baseball team closed out its regular season by completing a four-game sweep of Adelphi as the Falcons enter the postseason with 36 wins – the most in program history. Bentley has set a new program record for wins in each of the past three seasons.
The Falcons (36-13, 28-8 NE10) earned the #2 seed for the Northeast 10 Championship. More information will following in the coming days.
Bentley 10, Adelphi 2 (7 inn.)
Brendan Sencaj was perfect at the plate, and he belted his 14
th home run of the season to lead the Falcons to a 10-2 win over the Panthers.
Sam Belliveau improved to 8-2 on the season after allowing just two runs in his six-inning start. He struck out five and walked two.
Adelphi (24-21, 20-16 NE10) took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but Bentley wasted little time in getting that run back – and more.
Jared Berardino drew a one-out walk in the bottom of the first inning, and
Nick Pappas followed with a base hit.
Stan DeMartinis III drove in Berardino with a single that tied the score.
Sencaj was next up for Bentley, and he belted a three-run homer over the left-field fence.
The Falcons kept their foot on the gas by plating three more runs in the second inning. All three were scored with two outs on the board.
Jimmy Mitchell and
Tommy Bolton hit consecutive one-out singles. Following Bentley's second out in which the runners did not advance, Pappas ripped a double to score Mitchell. Next up, DeMartinis belted a double that allowed Bolton and Pappas to touch home plate.
Sencaj finished the game 3-for-3, while Bolton, Berardino, Pappas, and DeMartinis each collected two hits.
Bentley 6, Adelphi 2
Nick Pappas and
Stan DeMartinis III combined to hit 6-for-9 to complete the four-game sweep over Adelphi in the final game of the regular season.
Pappas went 3-for-5 at the dish, and he scored three runs. DeMartinis finished the game 3-for-4 with three RBI. Pappas is just one hit away from matching
Brendan Sencaj's program for hits in a season (86). Sencaj achieved the feat last year.
For a team that's heralded for its slugging, Bentley final game of the regular season did not include any extra-base hits. DeMartinis hit an RBI single in first inning, and he added a two-run single in the eighth. Sencaj drove in a run with a single in the third inning, and
Nick Pappas hit an RBI single in the seventh.
