Columbia University Athletics

2019: Second Team All-Ivy League … Graduated as Columbia’s all-time home run leader and fifth in Ivy League history (31) … Only player in program history to record multiple double-digit home run seasons … Seventh all-time in walks (75) … Set Ivy League record with 10 home runs during conference play … Hit .290 with 11 homers and 34 RBI and 34 runs scored … Led Ivy League and ranked No. 20 in NCAA with 0.34 home runs per game … Went deep twice at Harvard (4/28) … Was 2-for-4 with three RBI at Harvard (4/27 – Game 1) … Ivy League Player of the Week (4/23) … Knocked in three runs against Brown (4/21 – Game 2) … Belted two homers and scored four runs against Brown (4/21 – Game 1) … Ivy League Player of the Week and one of Collegiate Baseball’s National Players of the Week (4/1-2) … Set program record with 26^th career home run, a three-run shot, at Princeton (4/6 – Game 1) … 2-for-2 with dinger, three RBI and three runs at Dartmouth (3/31) … Went 2-for-4 with four RBI and three runs at Dartmouth (3/30 – Game 1) … Hit grand slams in back-to-back games against Cornell (3/24 – Game 2) and Manhattan … Posted two hits at Oklahoma (3/1 – Game 2).
 
2018: First team All-Ivy League … First team All-ECAC … Played in all 50 games … Led team with 10 home runs, which is 10^th on Columbia’s single-season list, and 30 walks … Tied for team lead with 31 RBI and paced squad with .471 slugging percentage … Was 2-for-5 with RBI at No. 1 Florida in NCAA Gainesville Regional … Scored a run and was 2-for-4 in game one of ILCS at Yale … Went 3-5 with an RBI and a double against Princeton (4/22)… Mashed a dinger and was 2-for-3 with two RBI at Monmouth … Ivy League Player of the Week on April 9 … Hit a pair of three-run homers in win at Dartmouth (4/8 – Game 2) … Also went deep in game one of twinbill at Dartmouth (4/8 – Game 1) … Was 2-for-3 in win over St. John’s … Went a combined 4-for-9 with four RBI and three runs in doubleheader against Harvard (3/31) … 2-for-5 with a long ball, two RBI and two runs in comeback win in series opener against Yale … Went 2-for-4 vs. New Mexico (3/16) … Scored twice and added homer in win at UTSA (3/9) … Had 3-for-5 game with three runs at UNLV (2/24).
 
2017: Honorable Mention All-Ivy League … Hit .302, slugged .603, drove in 32 runs and hit team-high nine homers … Notched a two-run single in sixth inning which proved to be game-winner at Penn (4/29 – Game 1) … Belted two-run homer in victory over Penn (4/28 – Game 2) … Ivy League Player of the Week (4/24) … Went 3-for-6 with a grand slam and seven RBI in win at Princeton (4/23) … Launched grand slam in upset-win over No. 4 St. John’s … Belted two long balls, including a grand slam, and posted seven RBI in win at Tulane.
 
2016: Made an appearance in 25 games and notched 16 starts… Had 2-for-5 outing with an RBI at San Diego (3/15)…  Went 2-for-4 with a double and run scored at Long Beach State (3/18)… Belted a pinch-hit homer, the first of his career, against Manhattan.
 
At Buchanan: Played both football and baseball with Bears… Cal-Hi Sports second team all-state… 2015 Fresno Bee Offensive Player of the Year… Maxpreps first team all-state as senior… Hit .365 with seven homers and 30 RBI in 2015… Led team to 29-4 record win CIF Central Section Championship and finish third in the state and 12th overall in the nation… Honor Roll student and Academic Scholar of Distinction.
 
Personal: Plans on majoring in Economics … Parents Rebecca and Todd Bengtson … Grandfather, Gary, played football at Fresno State … Born September 9, 1996.