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Austin Trumpour on the mound looking in for the signs from his catcher
Jim Stankiewicz
8
Winner Southern N.H. SNHU 31-14
2
Bentley BENTLEY 33-15
Winner
Southern N.H. SNHU
31-14
8
Final
2
Bentley BENTLEY
33-15
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern N.H. SNHU 1 1 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 8 11 0
Bentley BENTLEY 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 10 0

W: Trumpour, Austin (5-3) L: P. Heber (5-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Bounces Bentley with 8-2 NE10 First Round Victory

Trumpour tosses six scoreless frames, Marshall hits 15th home run

When and Where: May 7, 2025 – Waltham, Mass. (DeFelice Field)
Score: RV Southern New Hampshire University 8, #25/28 Bentley University 2
Records: SNHU 31-14, Bentley 33-15

Junior Austin Trumpour (Jensen Beach, Fla.) fired six shutout innings, and freshman Jackson Marshall (Hooksett, N.H.) homered and knocked in three runs, to lead the Southern New Hampshire University baseball team, the No. 3 seed in the NE10 Northeast Division, to an 8-2 victory over Bentley University, the second seed in the Northeast, in an NE10 Championship first round contest at DeFelice Field on Wednesday afternoon.
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
  • Marshall – 2-for-5, 3 RBI, R, HR
  • Trumpour – 6.0 IP, 7 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 4 K, 1 BB (win; 5-3)
  • Senior Jancarlos Colon (Santa Isabel, P.R.) – 4-for-5, 2 RBI, 2 R, 2 SB
  • Junior Kyle Lavigne (Bedford, N.H.) – 2-for-4, 2 RBI, SB
  • Junior Jake Pisano (Hamden, Conn.) – 2-for-4, 2 R, BB, 2 SB
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Marshall set the tone in the top of the first inning with a two-out RBI single through the left side that scored graduate student Jorge Burgos (Santo Domingo, D.R.), who led off the game by being hit with a pitch and stole second.
  • Southern New Hampshire doubled its lead in the second when Colon led off with a single to left-center, later stole third and scored on a sacrifice fly to right by redshirt-sophomore Ruben Fernandez (Providence, R.I.).
  • SNHU grabbed more breathing room with a three-run sixth. Sophomore Nater Wachter (Concord, N.H.) drew a leadoff walk, before Marshall belted a two-run home run to left that again doubled the Penmen advantage. Pisano reset the deck with a walk and a steal of second, and then scored on an RBI base hit from Colon to make it 5-0.
  • The Penmen added three more in the seventh, with another Wachter leadoff walking getting it going. He would go to third on a Pisano base knock and score on an RBI single to left by Colon. Lavigne helped break it open with a two-run single up the middle that stretched the advantage to 8-0.
  • Bentley made it on to the board against the SNHU bullpen in the bottom of the frame, scoring a run on a sac fly.
  • The Falcons added another sac fly in the ninth.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Junior Jake Risedorf (Barkhamsted, Conn.) was 1-for-4 with a walk.
  • Wachter finished 0-for-2, but walked three times and scored a pair of runs.
  • Fernandez went 0-for-3 with an RBI.
  • Graduate student Jorge Burgos (Santo Domingo, D.R.), who returned to the lineup after missing the previous three games, finished 0-for-3 with a run scored and a steal.
  • Sophomore Devin Divita (New Hartford, Conn.) tossed two innings of relief, allowing one run on three hits, while punching out four and walking a batter.
  • Graduate student Cam Varney (Manchester, N.H.) walked both batters he faced in the ninth and was charged with an earned run.
  • Junior Frankie DeMaro (Newburgh, N.Y.) allowed one of Varney's inherited runners to score, but pitched a hitless inning, striking out one and walking one.
NOTES
  • Southern New Hampshire, receiving votes in the, National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America (NCBWA) Division II Top 25, has won 14 of its last 17, including seven of nine.
  • Bentley is ranked 25th in the NCBWA Division II Top 25 and 28th in the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Division II Coaches Poll.
  • SNHU improves to 22-11 (.667) in its 12th appearance in the NE10 postseason, including 4-2 against Bentley. Amazingly, all six meetings have now come in the first round.
  • The Penmen had lost in the first round each of the last two seasons and advance to Championship Weekend for the first time since 2022. Championship Weekend begins Friday (May 9) and is hosted by the highest remaining seed in the Southwest Division this year – in this case, it is the top seed in the Southwest, American International College, which defeated the University of New Haven, 6-4, earlier Wednesday.
  • The Penmen played their first NE10 postseason game on at the road at Bentley in 2013. Since then, they had hosted 10 straight first round contests until Wednesday.
  • Bentley still leads in the all-time series, 45-44, but SNHU snaps the Falcons' three-game winning streak, as it has now captured 14 of 18. The Penmen have now won 13 of the last 14, including eight straight at Bentley. The last time the Falcons defeated SNHU on its home field was March 31, 2018 (4-3).
  • Marshall, who has now homered twice in the last three games, has 15 on the season, extending his rookie record and moving him into sole possession of third place on the single-season list.
  • Colon has a hit in 40 of his 45 games this year, including 19 of his last 21, 16 of 17 and four straight. The four-hit game is his second of the season and the eighth for a Penmen this year.
UP NEXT
  • The Penmen advance to NE10 Championship Weekend, hosted by American Int'l at Bedard Field, and will open up the double-elimination portion of the tournament against the Yellow Jackets on Friday (May 9).
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