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Marc Cisco jogging back to the dugout after running the bases
Jim Stankiewicz
11
Winner Bentley BEN 39-13
9
Southern N.H. SNH 40-12
Winner
Bentley BEN
39-13
11
Final
9
Southern N.H. SNH
40-12
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Bentley BEN 2 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 2 11 15 2
Southern N.H. SNH 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 5 9 5 1

W: Sam Belliveau (9-2) L: Hammer, Garrett (4-1) S: Keegan Antelman (6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

#21 Baseball Battles, but Falls to #19 Bentley, 11-9, in NE10 Final

Penmen strike five times in the ninth to close the gap

When and Where: May 10, 2026 — Hooksett, N.H. (Penmen Field)
Game 1 Score: #19/#2-seed Bentley University 11, #21/#1-seed Southern New Hampshire University 9
Records: SNHU 40-12, BU 39-13

Graduate student Marc Cisco (Long Island City, N.Y.) homered twice and drove in six runs, but the 21st-ranked and top-seeded Southern New Hampshire University baseball team had its ninth-inning rally fall short in an 11-9 loss to 19th-ranked and second-seeded Bentley University in the finals of the Northeast 10 Championship on Sunday.

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Bentley set the tone in the top of the first with a two-run home run off the bat of Jared Berardino.
  • The Falcons put four more on the board in the third, including a three-run homer from Jake Maydak.
  • Southern New Hampshire finally reached the scoreboard in the fifth, taking advantage of an early error to strike for four unanswered runs. Cisco pulled the Penmen back in it with a two-run shot to center that made it 6-4.
  • A trio of RBI singles in the seventh increased the Bentley advantage to 9-4, before two more runs in the ninth made it a seven-run game.
  • Cisco cut into that deficit with his second home run of the day — a grand slam to left that pulled the Penmen within 11-8. Junior Joel Valera (Boston, Mass.) made it even closer and brought the tying run to the plate with an RBI double to the gap in left-center, but a fly out ended it.
  • Cisco finished 2-for-6 with two home runs, six RBI and a pair of runs scored.
  • Junior Jacob Albert (Pelham, N.H.) went 1-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored.
  • Valera was 1-for-5 with a double, RBI and run scored.
  • Senior Kyle Lavigne (Bedford, N.H.) was on base four times, walking twice, getting hit by a pitch twice and scoring two runs.
  • Sophomore Garrett Hammer (Auburn, N.H.) started and allowed six runs on seven hits over three innings. He walked two, hit a batter and recorded a strikeout, as he fell to 4-1 on the season.
  • Freshman Shawn Taylor (Sewell, N.J.) tossed an inning-and-a-third of hitless relief, but walked five and hit a batter.
  • Redshirt-junior Ben Gilbert (Altamont, N.Y.) gave up a hit and struck out a batter in a scoreless inning of work.
NOTES
  • Southern New Hampshire, ranked 21st in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II Top 25, 22nd in the D2 Baseball Top 25 and 25th in the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Division II Baseball Coaches Poll, had won 28 of the last 31, including five of six, entering the day.
  • Bentley, ranked 19th in the ABCA Coaches Poll and receiving votes in both the NCBWA Top 25 and D2 Baseball Top 25, wins its first NE10 title in its third appearance in the finals and first since 1987.
  • The Penmen dip to 25-15 (.625) in their 13th all-time appearance in the NE10 Championship, including 4-4 against Bentley. SNHU, which was in search of its fifth NE10 title, was playing in its sixth NE10 final, including second straight.
  • Freshman Zak Whitney (Keene, N.H.) and senior Jake Lapham (Lansingburgh, N.Y.) were named to the NE10 All-Championship during the awards ceremony following the game.
  • Bentley leads the all-time series, 51-44, and has won nine of the last 10 meetings, including six straight, despite the Penmen being victorious in 14 of the last 24. The Falcons have also won six of seven, including four five, at SNHU. Bentley is 6-0 against SNHU this season, though four of the wins have come by a single run, with the average margin of victory across all six wins being 2.2 runs.
  • Junior Casey Cumiskey (Milltown, N.J.) had his team-best 13-game hitting streak snapped, but reached base for a team-high 31st straight game.
  • Cisco now has the team's longest hitting streak at nine games.
  • SNHU falls to 19-3 at home this season and is now 179-41 (.814) at Penmen Field since the beginning of the 2014 season.
UP NEXT
  • The Penmen will now await their NCAA postseason fate, which will be announced when the NCAA Selection Show airs later Sunday (10 p.m. EDT) on NCAA.com.

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