WALTHAM, Mass. – After leading the conference in passing yards and touchdown passes, Bentley University graduate student Danny Guadagnoli (Framingham/Framingham HS) has been named the Offensive Player of the Year in the Northeast-10 Conference.

Four other Falcons were honored with All-Northeast-10 recognition, including senior wide receiver Jeff Hill (Mansfield/Mansfield HS), who became the first Bentley player to earn first-team recognition three straight years since current Dallas Cowboy offensive lineman Mackenzy Bernadeau from 2005-07.

Selected by the conference coaches for the All-Northeast-10 second team were sophomore left tackle Eric Beckwith (North Attleboro/North Attleboro HS), junior defensive end Paul Norris (North Attleboro/North Attleboro HS) and senior linebacker Kyle Young (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial HS).

Guadagnoli threw for 3,443 yards, breaking the school record for the second straight year, and 31 touchdowns during the recently completed season. The three-year captain had at least two TD passes in 10 of 11 games with five against New Haven and four three times (Southern Connecticut, LIU Post and Merrimack).

Guadagnoli finished his career number two in program history in most passing categories, including yards (9,175), TD passes (69), completions (671) and completion percentage (.600). An Academic All-Northeast-10 selection in both 2012 and 2013 who is currently working on his Masters in Finance, Guadagnoli amassed 9,702 yards in career total offense, also second in program history.

Hill was the conference's premier receiver during the 2014 season as he led the NE-10 in receiving yards (1,113) and touchdown catches (12), and was also second in yards per catch (16.4). He was on the receiving end of at least one TD pass in eight of the last nine weeks, with four games with two TDs, and he recorded five 100-yard games.

Hill, who topped the 1,000-yard receiving plateau for the second straight year, finished his career with exactly 200 catches for 3,489 yards and 37 touchdowns. Each of those numbers ranks third on Bentley's all-time list.

Young was second on the team in tackles for the third time in four seasons, finishing with 99 stops after making a season-high 14 in a Saturday's career-ending 30-7 win at Merrimack. Eleven of his tackles resulted in losses, including 4.5 sacks, and he also had a fumble recovery, a blocked kick, three pass break-ups and five quarterback hurries. Young finished his career with 273 tackles in 38 games.

Norris emerged as Bentley's best defensive lineman this season and ranked among the Northeast-10 leaders in tackles for losses (13) and sacks (7). More than a third of his tackles came behind the line of scrimmage and his junior year featured three sacks against Southern Connecticut State.

The six-foot-two, 285-pound Beckwith started Bentley's first ten games at left tackle before an injury kept him out the final week, and helped the Falcons average 28.5 points and nearly 400 yards a game. He had made six starts as a freshman and is also the school record holder in the outdoor shot put.

Bentley won four of its final five games, with the only blemish during that stretch coming to conference champion LIU Post, and finished at 5-6 overall.

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