Campbell University

Career Honors:

• 2018 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-American
• 2018 Big South Freshman of the Year
• 2018 First Team All-Big South
• Big South Freshman of the Week (3/19)

2018: Made a team-high 29 appearances on the mound... Compiled a 5-2 record, finishing the season with a 3.42 ERA and three saves... Racked up 64 strikeouts across 47.1 innings of work, good for a team-high 12.17 K's per nine innings... Recorded a strikeout in all but three outings... Held batters below the Mendoza Line with a .199 opposing batting average... Posted a 0.87 ERA against Big South opponents, limiting conference foes to a .127 batting clip... Struck out High Point's Tanner Wells for the final out of the Big South Tournament Championship game (5/26)... Fanned a season-high five batters three times... Named Big South Freshman of the Week on March 19...Made his collegiate debut vs. St. John's (2/17), striking out four over 3.0 scoreless innings...

2017: Redshirt season, did not appear in any games...

Prep: Lettered as a right-handed pitcher and third baseman for the Hawks…An all-conference and academic all-conference performer…A 2016 Rawlings-Perfect Game Honorable Mention All-American…Also named Atlantic Region Honorable Mention…A 2015 Perfect Game Underclass Honorable Mention…Coached by Joey Miriello…

Personal: Son of Patrick and Susan Bender…Born Aug. 8, 1998 in Fort Polk, La. …Plans an exercise science major…