Biography
2014
Named to Baseball America's Preseason All-American Second Team... A member of the A-Sun's Preseason All-Conference Team... Earned the A-Sun's first Player of the Week award of the season... Landed a spot on the Johnny Bench Award watch list...
2013
Pentecost earned All-Atlantic Sun Conference Second Team accolades during his sophomore season, hitting .302 at the plate while catching 13 runners attempting to steal... Started and played in 57 games, seeing action as a designated hitter when not catching... Led the team with three homeruns, belting two alone during the A-Sun Tournament, earning him a spot on the All-Tournament Team... Had a slugging percentage of .409 with 13 doubles and three homers... Also drove in 30 runs while scoring 36... Was perfect in the stolen base category with six steals in as many attepmts... Had four games with three or more hits and 20 games with two or more... Went 3-for-4 against Jacksonville (4/12) with four RBI and a homer...
2012 Summer Leagues (Holyoke Blue Sox/ NECBL)
After hitting .303 this summer for the Holyoke Blue Sox, Pentecost, a former seventh round draft pick of the Texas Rangers, garnered the No. 18 best prospect of the NECBL. In 37 games for the Blue Sox, Pentecost bolstered a .424 slugging percentage while leading the team with 27 runs scored. He tripled his homerun total from the spring, belting three
homeruns and driving in 15 runs...
2012
Pentecost’s solid season with Kennesaw State, splitting catching roles with Ronnie Freeman, in 2012 was highlighted by a base clearing double in the eighth inning during Kennesaw State vs. Stetson to put the Owls up for the first time during the contest 5-4 in the Atlantic Sun Championship... The win over the Hatters put Kennesaw State playing on Championship Saturday vs. FGCU...He also had a walk-off single on 3/11, which lifted the Owls over Georgia State 7-6 to lock down a sweep over their metro rival... Named to All-Atlantic Sun Freshman Team in 2012 with KSU pitcher Justin McCalvin...Started 52 games for KSU and appeared in 56, .277 Batting Average (53-for-191) with 16 doubles (tied for 2nd on team) and three triples, 23 runs and 23 RBI…Feb 17 vs Virginia Tech, 1-for-4, first collegiate hit was an RBI double…Feb 26, vs Memphis, 2-for-4 one run, one RBI, one double, and a triple…started a six game hit streak…Mar 18, vs Mercer, 2-for-5, one RBI…Mar 25, Jacksonville, 3-for-5, one run with two doubles…Mar 31 vs North Florida, 3-for-4 with one run and RBI and two doubles…Pentecost had 11 hits, three runs, four RBI, five doubles, one triple, and one walk in a six game stretch. May 18 vs Ga Southern, 3-for-4 with one run and a triple…May 25 vs Stetson during the A-Sun Championship Tournament, 2-for-4, three RBI with a go-ahead double…Ended the season with a six game hitting streak…During the A-Sun Tournament, Pentecost went 6-for-15 with six RBI, two doubles, three base on balls. He had at least one hit in each...
High School
Was selected in the 7th round (234th overall pick) of the 2011 Major League Draft by the Texas Rangers … Was a 2011 Southeast All-Region pick … Played for Team Georgia, was a four-year All-Region selection and was named the Georgia State Hitter of the Year … Second Team All-Area selection his senior year … Second Team 8-AAAA All-Region Team … Batted .295 with three home runs, eight doubles and 16 runs batted in during an abbreviated senior year … Batted .427 with 38 runs batted in during his junior year when he was named the Region 8AAAA Hitter of the year … Led Winder-Barrow to three consecutive state playoff appearances … Was a four-year letterwinner and an Honor Graduate who ranked 13th in his graduating class...
Personal
Was born Maxwell Glen Pentecost Jr. in Athens, Ga. … Is the son of Wanda and Maxwell Sr. Pentecost... Has a sister Britt… Is a Biochemistry major...
