WALTHAM, Mass. – The nationally-ranked Bentley University women's basketball team has strung together a pair of five-game winning streaks this season and will be seeking a third on Saturday when the Falcons complete the crossover portion of the schedule at Southern Connecticut State University.

Tip-off at the Moore Field House is slated for 1:30 pm with a link to the webcast available at www.bentleyfalcons.com.

Bentley will travel to Connecticut with records of 16-4 overall, 12-1 Northeast-10 and 5-1 against NE10 Southwest Division teams. They'll be facing an Owl team that has won three straight to improve to 9-11 overall and 5-8 in the conference.

During its five-game winning streak to start the season, Bentley outscored its opponents by a total of 73 points and allowed an average of 56.2 points During the second such streak, which ran from Nov. 30-Dec. 18, the Falcons won by a total of 64 points and limited the opposition to 54.8 ppg.

The current four-game streak has seen coach Barbara Stevens' squad dispose of American International, Pace, Le Moyne and Saint Rose by a total of 77 points while giving up 57.3 points per game. Each of the last three opponents have shot under 34 percent.

The Falcons are coming off a 72-54 victory at Saint Rose on Wednesday, a game in which Bentley dominated the third quarter, 27-12, to open a 21-point lead. Four players scored in doubles, including two players who were able to sit out the fourth quarter: senior All-America forward Jen Gemma (Milton/Fontbonne Academy) and All-Conference junior guard Lauren Green (Damascus, Md./ Damascus HS). Each scored 16 points.

Gemma is Bentley's top scorer and rebounder for the third straight season, averaging 17.9 points and 7.6 rebounds. She's produced 20 points and 10 rebounds a game during the current streak and is on pace to become the first Northeast-10 player since the 90's to amass both 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. She'll enter Saturday's tilt 84 points and 43 rebounds away from achieving those milestone marks.

Green, one of the top three-point threats in the conference, follows with a 12.6 scoring average. She's tied for first in most triples so far this season with 54 and is fourth in accuracy (.419).

Junior Macchi Smith (Los Angeles, Calif./Windward School), Bentley's top playmaker (94 assists) and one of the top rebounding guards in the conference (90 defensive is tied for team-lead), is the team's third double-figure scorer, averaging 10.8. Classmate Trevena Bennett (Union, N.J./Gill St. Bernard School) has given the Falcons over 11 points a game the last five, and sophomore forward Victoria Lux (Arundel, Maine/Thornton Academy) is coming off a 10-point, 10-rebound double-double.

Southern Connecticut has played outstanding defense during its season-best three-game win streak, limiting Southern New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce and Assumption to an average of 47 points, a .359 field goal percentage and   239 accuracy from three. The Owls gave up only 13 first-half points on Tuesday in a 48-43 road win at Assumption, which had won 12 of its previous 13.

Senior forward Taylor McLaughlin is having an outstanding season for the Owls, averaging 19.8 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.1 steals. She's shot nearly 40 percent from three  and had a string of five straight 20-point games earlier this season.

Bentley will be back in the Dana Center on Wednesday, hosting Stonehill College in the first of seven straight against Northeast Division opponents.