EASTON, Mass. – Following more than a half-century at the helm and well over 1,800 games, legendary Bentley University baseball coach Bob DeFelice coached his final game Sunday afternoon at Stonehill College's Lou Gorman Field.

While the finale of his 54-year career was a 4-1 Northeast-10 Conference loss to the Skyhawks (18-29, 7-17 NE10), DeFelice saw his team take three of four from Stonehill  in the season-ending series and win 12 of its final 20 under his direction.

Bentley's bats were quiet as Stonehill sophomore lefty Jonathan Rice (Hopedale) authored a complete game two-hitter. He walked five and struck out seven while blanking the Falcons after the first inning.

In the first, sophomore DH Jackson Walonis (Walpole/Walpole HS) and junior first baseman Eddy Beauregard (Paxton/Wachusett Reg. HS) drew one-out walks. Junior right fielder Tim Zupkus (Middlebury, Conn./Holy Cross HS) followed with a single to center, driving in Walonis with what proved to be the final run of the DeFelice era.

Stonehill, after tying the game with an unearned run in the bottom of the first, used its first three hits of the game off Bentley freshman Marc Cedrone (Walpole/Xaverian Bros. HS) to break the 1-1 deadlock in the fifth. Before the inning ended with Zupkus throwing out a runner at the plate, junior first baseman Mike Swanholm (Narragansett, R.I.) scored the unearned go-ahead run on a single to left by senior shortstop Noah Lucier (Sandown, N.H.).

Stonehill, which defeated Bentley for the first time in five games this season, bolstered its lead with single runs in the sixth and seventh innings.

After the first-inning single by Zupkus, Bentley's only hit of the final eight innings was an eighth-inning single by Beauregard.

Cedrone, in his six innings of work, allowed five hits and three runs, only one of which was earned.

Bentley finished its final season of the DeFelice era at 17-25 overall and 11-13 NE10.