WALTHAM, Mass. – The women's basketball teams from Bentley University and Stonehill College, the two most successful in Northeast-10 Conference history, will renew acquaintances for the 100th time Saturday at Stonehill's Merkert Gymnasium. The revised tip-off time is 5 pm.

Bentley is 63-36 all-time against the Skyhawks and could certainly use a 64th victory in the series with the 2014-15 regular season down to its final two games.

Five teams from both the Northeast and Southwest divisions of the Northeast-10 make the conference championship tournament and coach Barbara Stevens' team will make the trip to Stonehill in a three-way tie for fifth in the Northeast with St. Michael's and Saint Anselm.

However, due to the conference tie-breaker, in order to make qualify for the tournament, Bentley will have to finish ahead of St. Michael's in the standings. That won't be an easy task as the Falcons will be playing the division's top two teams on the road, a Tuesday encounter with Franklin Pierce following Saturday's tilt with Stonehill. On the other hand, the Purple Knights close against eighth-place Southern New Hampshire on the road and fourth-place Merrimack Tuesday.  

Bentley, 4-2 in its last six games, improved to 11-14 overall and 6-13 in the NE-10 with Wednesday's 75-62 victory over Southern New Hampshire. The Falcons put on a second-half shooting exhibition in that one with their overall percentage of .630 the program's best in eight years. Included was a 16-for-18 effort to start the second half and 58 percent accuracy from three-point land.

Stonehill, ranked tenth nationally in the latest USA Today Sports/WBCA Division II rankings, will be looking to bounce back from a rare loss, 81-71 at Franklin Pierce, after previously having clinched the division title. The Skyhawks are 20-3 overall, 16-3 in the conference and a perfect 11-0 at home.

Bentley sophomore forward Jen Gemma (Milton/Fontbonne Academy) heads into the penultimate game of the regular season with a conference-best 19.5 scoring average after putting up 24 on 9-of-12 shooting against SNHU. It's currently the highest average in program history, bettering the 18.9 achieved by three-time NE-8 Player of the Year Alison Fay in 1982.

Gemma is also second in the NE-10 in rebounds per game (10.4) and is poised to become the first Barbara Stevens-coached Bentley player to average a double-double.

Freshman guard Lauren Green (Damascus, Md./Damascus HS) is Bentley's other double-figure scorer with her average standing at 11.4. She's sixth in the conference in three-point accuracy (.400) and the NE-10's highest scoring rookie.

Senior guard Kelsey Mattice (Cicero, N.Y./Cicero North Syracuse HS) has raised her scoring output to 8.0 a game by averaging 11.9 points since Jan. 29, a stretch in which she's gotten to the line 24 times (after attempting only 16 in her first 18 games).

Six-foot forward Carlene Kluge (Reading/Reading HS) scored 14 points in Wednesday's game and over the last four, has made 18 of 24 from the floor to raise her season accuracy to .510.

Stonehill, which has gone with the same starting five all season, has four double-figure scorers, including senior post Tori Faieta. She's one of three in the NE-10 averaging a double-double (15.0 ppg, 10.0 rpg) and is the conference's premier defensive rebounder (nearly eight a game). In addition, she's number two in blocks, sending back two a game.

Senior guard Amy Pelletier is second in the NE-10 in three-pointers (56) with two-thirds of her scoring coming from beyond the arc. Sophomore guard Kelly Martin, second with a 13.1 average, gets to the line nearly five times a game and is in the top five in the NE-10 in assists (104).

In the earlier meeting this season, on a day that Bentley raised the 2014 NCAA Division II national championship ballot, Stonehill shot 55 percent and buried 10 three-pointers en route to an 81-67 victory. Faietta powered the Skyhawks with 25, junior guard Paige Marshall followed with 21 and the duo combined to make 19 of 26 overall. Gemma had a double-double for the Falcons, finishing with 16 points and 11 boards.

Of the previous 99 meetings between the Falcons and Skyhawks, 26 have been in the postseason with 14 in the NE-10's and 12 in the NCAA tournament.