WALTHAM, Mass. – Three-time All-America Lauren Battista (North Easton/Oliver Ames HS), who led the women's basketball team to the NCAA Division II national championship, and Brett Gensler (St. Charles, Mo./Youngstown Phantoms), the top scorer in Atlantic Hockey history, have been named the Outstanding Senior Athletes at Bentley University.

Battista, who graduated last weekend with a sparkling 3.96 GPA, was also the recipient of the Edward J. Powers Scholar-Athlete Award as Bentley's premier senior scholar-athlete. The award is named after the late president of the old Boston Garden, an alumnus and trustee of Bentley.

Battista, the 2014 Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division II Player of the Year, averaged 17.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists for a Bentley team that finished a perfect 35-0. In the national championship game, she buried a three-pointer with 2:14 left to put the Falcons in front for good. After stealing the ensuing inbound pass, she followed that with a lay-up and Bentley went on to prevail 73-65 over West Texas A&M for the first national title in program history.

Battista, a finalist for Northeast-10 Woman of the Year, was selected as the Capital One NCAA Division II Academic All-America of the Year after earning Academic All-America honors for the third straight year. The marketing and liberal studies major also received a third consecutive Northeast-10 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence award for women's basketball.

Battista finished her career with 2,112 points, most in program history.

Gensler's senior year saw him amass 21 goals and 32 assists for 53 points while leading the Falcons to records of 19-4-4 overall and 16-7-4 conference. He closed out his career with eight points in a three-game AHA first-round series against Canisius and had 17 multi-point games, including five straight in January. His lone hat trick of the season came during Frozen Fenway at Fenway Park Dec. 28 when he scored all of Bentley's goals in a 3-2 win over Holy Cross.

Responsible for two of the three 50-point seasons in Bentley history, Gensler earned first-team All-Atlantic Hockey honors each of the last three years and was the recipient of the 2012 Walter Brown Award as the top American-born player in New England. He concluded his career with 73 goals (a Bentley Division I record), a school-record 94 assists and 167 points, second most in program history.

After completing his Bentley career, Gensler signed with the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL. The 2009 graduate of Chaminade College Prep and 2013 AHA All-Academic selection played in ten games with the Stingrays at the end of the regular season.