{"id":290717,"date":"2026-05-31T08:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290717\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:11:27","slug":"sencaj-hits-home-run-during-bentleys-first-dii-world-series-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290717\/","title":{"rendered":"Sencaj hits home run during Bentley&#8217;s first DII World Series game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Catawba - NEW.png\" alt=\"Catawba College\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>vs. Catawba College<\/p>\n<p>6\/1\/2026 | 1:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Jun. 01 (Mon) \/ 1:30 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Catawba - NEW.png\" alt=\"Catawba College\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0Catawba College&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CARY, N.C. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brendan-sencaj\/11834\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11834\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Sencaj<\/a> went yard during Bentley&#8217;s first ever NCAA DII World Series game, but the #7 seeded Falcons lost to #2 Tampa, 13-2, Saturday night at the USA Baseball National Training Complex. Bentley faces elimination when it next takes on #3 Catawba Monday, June 1, at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sencaj&#8217;s solo blast led off the top of the ninth inning when he launched an 0-1 pitch over the left-field fence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-maydak\/11829\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11829\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Maydak<\/a> supplied the first DII World Series hit in Bentley history by ripping a single to left field to lead off the top of the third inning.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley scored its first run of the game in the eighth inning. <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tommy-goonan\/11823\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11823\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Goonan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jimmy-mitchell\/11831\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11831\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Mitchell<\/a> drew consecutive one-out walks, and Goonan came in to score on <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jared-berardino\/11815\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11815\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Berardino&#8217;s<\/a> base hit. <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/nick-pappas\/11833\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11833\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Pappas<\/a> followed by drawing a walk to load the bases, but Bentley couldn&#8217;t deliver that clutch two-out hit.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons loaded the bases again in the ninth inning following Sencaj&#8217;s homer. <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/parker-coleman\/11818\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11818\" target=\"_blank\">Parker Coleman<\/a> was hit by a pitch, and once again the Goonan-Mitchell duo worked consecutive walks with one out on the board. Still, all three runners were left stranded.<\/p>\n<p>Berardino finished the game 2-for-5 at the plate. He, Sencaj, Goonan, and Mitchell each reached base twice against Tampa.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: vs. Catawba College 6\/1\/2026 | 1:30 PM &#13; Jun. 01 (Mon) \/ 1:30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-290717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}