When and Where: April 4, 2025 – Hooksett, N.H. (Penmen Field)
Game 1 Score: RV Southern New Hampshire University 6, RV Bentley University 3 (15 inn.)
Game 2 Score: RV Bentley University 4, RV Southern New Hampshire University 2 (14 inn.)
Records: SNHU 17-9 (6-3 NE10), Bentley 18-12 (7-5 NE10)
Sophomore
Nater Wachter (Concord, N.H.) delivered a three-run, walk-off home run in the 15th inning of game one, as the Southern New Hampshire University baseball team split a marathon doubleheader with Bentley University on Friday and into Saturday morning at Penmen Field. SNHU took the first game, 6-3, while Bentley outlasted the Penmen, 4-2, in 14 innings of the nightcap.
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
- Senior Jancarlos Colon (Santa Isabel, P.R.) – 6-for-11, 2 R, 2B, 3B, 3 BB, SB
- Junior Jake Pisano (Hamden, Conn.) – 4-for-10, RBI, BB
- Junior Austin Trumpour (Jensen Beach, Fla.) – 8.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 7 K, 2 BB (game one)
- Sophomore Devin Divita (New Hartford, Conn.) – 6.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 6 K, 2 BB (game 1 win; 3-0)
- Junior Frankie DeMaro (Newburgh, N.Y.) – 9.0, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 9 K, 2 BB (game two)
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME ONE
- Southern New Hampshire scored first in the bottom of the first when Colon led off with a double to left, stole third and eventually scored on a single to short by Pisano.
- The score stayed that way until the home half of the fourth when freshman Jackson Marshall (Hooksett, N.H.) led off by launching a no-doubt home run to straightaway center that made it 2-0.
- The Falcons sliced their deficit in half in the top of the fifth, using a sacrifice fly to push across an unearned run.
- Trumpour recorded two quick outs in the top of the ninth, as he closed in on the complete-game effort, but a double and a single set up runners at the corners for Bentley, which attempted to steal second. The Penmen threw down, but no one covered the base, allowing the tying run to come home. An infield single from Jake Maydak two batters later put the Falcons on top, 3-2.
- SNHU answered in the bottom of the ninth. Pisano stroked a one-out single to left, with graduate student Luca Giallongo (Mt. Shasta, Calif.) pinch running for him at first. Giallongo moved to second on a groundout and took third on a wild pitch, before DeMaro came through with a pinch-hit single up the middle to even the score, 3-3.
- The Penmen finally ended it in the 15th, as Colon led off with a single to left-center and graduate student Jorge Burgos (Santo Domingo, D.R.) worked a walk, before Wachter sent one into the trees in center to win it.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE – GAME ONE
- Colon went 4-for-7 with a pair of runs scored, a double and a triple.
- Pisano was 2-for-4.
- DeMaro (RBI) and graduate student Jake Pierre (Holbrook, N.Y.; double, walk) were both 1-for-1.
- Giallongo finished 1-for-2 with a run.
- Sophomore Joel Valera (Boston, Mass.) went 1-for-3 with a triple.
- Marshall (RBI, run, HR, walk) and junior Jake Risedorf (Barkhamsted, Conn.) were both 1-for-5.
- Wachter was 1-for-7 with three RBI, a run scored and a home run.
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME TWO
- Bentley scored in the first when it had runners at the corners and put on the double steal, eventually giving up the out at second to push the game's first run across.
- The Falcons doubled their lead in the sixth with a Nick Pappas RBI single that caromed back off DeMaro.
- SNHU pulled even in the seventh, taking advantage of a pair of Bentley errors to score two unearned runs.
- The scored remained tied, 2-2, until the top of the 14th when RBI doubles from Maydak and Stan DeMartinis III gave Bentley a 4-2 advantage.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE – GAME TWO
- Colon (three walks) and junior Kyle Lavigne (Bedford, N.H.; run) were both 2-for-4.
- Pisano went 2-for-6 with a walk.
- Marshall was 1-for-5 and walked twice.
- Sophomore Zach Brassill (No. Hampton, N.H.) was tagged with the loss, allowing two runs on four hits over five innings of relief, striking out four and walking one.
NOTES
- Southern New Hampshire, receiving votes in both the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Division II Coaches Poll and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II Top 25, has won seven of its last nine. Bentley is also receiving votes in the ABCA poll.
- The Penmen play a pair of extra-inning games in the same doubleheader nearly eight years to the day they last did it. SNHU split a doubleheader with the University of New Haven on April 9, 2017 at Penmen Field, defeating the Chargers, 7-6, in 15 innings in the opener, before falling, 7-3, in 10 innings in game two.
- The two contests Friday saw 12 pitchers throw 894 pitches over eight hours and four minutes, which, coincidentally, matched the exact time from the 2017 doubleheader.
- Colon takes over the team lead in batting at .361, which ranks fourth in the NE10. Marshall is right behind in fifth at .352.
UP NEXT
- The Penmen wrap up the series with Bentley on Sunday (April 6) with a noon doubleheader at Penmen Field.
