MIKE HILL

Head Coach

Mike enters his third season as Bentley University's head baseball coach with the 2025 season.

Under Hill’s leadership, Bentley baseball has reached new heights. The 2025 season was historic, as the Falcons set a program record with 33 wins, surpassing last year's total of 29. The team dominated the Northeast-10 Conference, earning four major awards:

• Hill himself was honored as the Bob Bellizzi Coach of the Year, and the NCBWA Northeast Region Coach of the Year, a testament to his leadership and impact on the program.
• Brendan Sencaj was named Northeast Division Player of the Year, becoming the first Bentley player since 1997(Mike Hill) to receive the honor.
• Pat Heber earned Northeast Division Pitcher of the Year, marking the first time a Bentley player has won this award.
• Zach Eigenbrod was recognized as Northeast Division Rookie Pitcher of the Year.

Bentley also had seven players selected for All-Conference honors, with four earning First Team recognition. Sencaj led the NE10 in multiple offensive categories, including batting average (.413), hits (85), runs (62), RBI (67), and total bases (136), playing a pivotal role in the team’s success.

In 2024, Hill led the Falcons to a program record 29 wins. Seven players received All-Conference honors and Cory Bright, Steve Rizzuto and Tim Zupkus were all named first team All-Northeast 10. Rizzuto was named first team All-Region by both the NCBWA and the ABCA.

After more than two decades as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Hill became just the second head baseball coach in Bentley history on July 1, 2022. He succeeded the legendary Bob DeFelice, who led the Falcons for 54 years.

In his first three seasons, Hill has compiled a 85-56 record.

A former Bentley baseball All-America and Northeast-10 Player of the Year, Hill served as an assistant baseball coach at his alma mater for 21 years.

Hill, a 2005 inductee into the Bentley Athletic Hall of Fame, was a standout for the Falcons from 1994-97 and is considered by many to be the best player to ever wear a Bentley uniform. The East Bridgewater native is the program's all-time leader in home runs (43), total bases (387), RBI (191) and slugging percentage (.763), and his .379 career batting average ranks second in school history. In 1996 alone, he hit .410, slugged 19 home runs (a single season school record), leading Division II in home runs per game, and knocked in 68 runs (a single season school record).

Following graduation, Hill was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 41st round and played a season with the Sarasota White Sox in the Gulf Coast League in 1997. Hill's younger bother Roger was also a standout at Bentley from 1997-2000 and is the school's all-time leader in hits with 239.

Hill graduated from Bentley in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management. He currently resides in Mansfield with his wife Cheryl and daughter, Kiley.

Hill was inducted into the Northeast-10 Conference Hall of Fame in June 2007, the Cranberry League Hall of Fame in 2009 and the East Bridgewater High School Hall of Fame in 2021.

BRANDON BINGEL

Pitching Coach

Brandon Bingel completed his first season as the Falcons’ pitching coach in 2024-25.

In his first season, the pitching staff ranked 42nd nationally in ERA and 50th in WHIP. Under Bingel, Junior Pat Heber and Freshman Zach Eigenbrod had breakout years. Heber finished the season with career bests in strikeouts, ERA, WHIP, and innings pitched in route to winning the Program’s first NE-10 Northeast Division Pitcher of the Year award and earning First Team All-NE 10 honors. Eigenbrod won the NE-10 Northeast Rookie of the Year award and earned NE-10 All-Rookie Team, NE-10 Second Team honors going 5-0 in 10 starts with a 3.23 ERA and .204 batting average against, ranking 17th nationally in hits allowed per nine innings.

As a player, Bingel was a two-way standout at Bryant University from 2014-2016. He appeared in 34 games on the mound, including 20 starts, going 15-8 while pitching to a 3.84 ERA. He played in 157 games in the field starting games at seven different positions throughout his career.

Following college, Bingel was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2016 and was named a Minor League Baseball All-Star, recording 19 straight scoreless innings to start his professional career. Bingel continued his two-way career in his last season of professional baseball slashing .308/.419/.404 in 95 games.

Bingel was inducted into the St. John’s Prep Hall of Fame in 2024.

RYAN BERARDINO

Assistant Coach

After starring for the Bentley University Falcons from 2017-21, Ryan Berardino returned to his alma mater in 2023 as an assistant baseball coach.

Berardino played in 148 games during his five seasons at Bentley and put together a .333/.409/.467 slash line with his 185 hits including 36 doubles, four triples and 10 home runs. A 2019 draft pick of the Boston Red Sox, he finished with 114 RBI and scored 102 times.

After hitting a Division II-best .489 as a graduate student in 2021, Berardino amassed numerous honors, including CCA Division II third-team All-America, NCBWA Division II honorable mention, D2CCA All-East and NCBWA All-East. That season, he was also fourth nationally in toughest to strike out, tenth in hits per game and 11th in on base percentage.

Berardino, who earned his MBA from Bentley after majoring in marketing as an undergrad, is from Sudbury, Mass. Outside of baseball, he works in cybersecurity sales.

His grandfathers, Dwight Evans and Dick Berardino, are well known in baseball circles. Evans is a Red Sox Hall of Famer and Berardino was a former Red Sox coach and a long-time minor league manager.

SEAN REILLY

Assistant Coach

Sean Reilly, who played collegiately at both Rollins College and Florida International University, has been a part of the Bentley baseball coaching staff since September 2022.

Reilly played for Rollins in 2011 and 2012, appearing in 96 games as a catcher. He drove in 65 runs for the Tars and his 96 hits included 21 doubles and four home runs. As a senior, Reilly earned All-Sunshine State Conference second team honors.

Before transferring to Rollins, the Westwood, Mass. native saw action in 55 games for Florida International from 2009-10.

Reilly, who earned his master’s in construction management from Wentworth Institute of Technology in 2018 and his bachelor’s in political science from Rollins in 2013, coached at the RBI Baseball Academy from 2007-18.