WALTHAM, Mass. – After starting December with wins at St. Thomas Aquinas, Assumption and Franklin Pierce, the Bentley University women's basketball team will be back in the Dana Center Sunday afternoon for a 1:00 game against Holy Family University. The webcast will be available on your Smart TV at NE10 NOW or online at www.ne10now.tv.

Bentley, which has only played on Barbara Stevens Court twice this season, is 7-3 overall and has won five of its last six, a stretch in which the Falcons have limited their opponents to 57.4 points a game. Sunday's contest wrap up the non-conference portion of the schedule.

Holy Family has a 4-3 record under first-year head coach and former three-year team captain Bernadette Laukaitis, with a 67-63 win over crosstown rival and then-nationally ranked USciences on Dec. 3 the highlight of the early season.

Before the game, Bentley senior guard and co-captain Julia Ford (Charlton/Noble and Greenough School) will be recognized for serving as the team manager for the USA Basketball Women's U16 National Team this past summer and helping the team to a 6-0 record and a gold medal at the 2019 FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Chile.

Sophomore guard Kari Brekke (Appleton, Wisc./Appleton North HS) has had a hot hand in the last two games for the Falcons, averaging 20.5 points overall and scoring 10 points in both third quarters. She made 56 percent of her shots in the two games, including eight of 13 from three-point land.

For the season, Brekke is scoring 12.8 points a game with a team-best 20 three-pointers.

Senior forward Monica Viapiano (Holden/Holy Name HS) is Bentley's top scorer and rebounder with averages of 14.6 points and nearly seven boards. Her field goal percentage (.577) is fourth best in the NE10 and includes 21 of 35 (.600) in three December games.

Brekke and Viapiano are generally joined in Women's Basketball Hall of Fame coach Barbara Stevens' starting lineup by junior guard Katie Meriggioli (Waunakee, Wisc./Edgewood HS), graduate forward Megan Lewis (Sevenoaks, England) and freshman guard Ella Thompson (Greenwood, Ind./ Center Grove HS). All three contribute at least seven points a game with Meriggioli at the top of the list at 9.1.

Senior forward Maddy Springfield (Jaffrey, N.H./Conant HS) has been a key contributor off the bench, providing about seven points and four rebounds a game. Her three-point percentage of .467 is third best in the Northeast-10.

Holy Family, which has won its last two, is powered by six-one-senior Elizabeth Radley, who scores a team-best 14.3 points a game. She's also the team leader in rebounds (6.1) and blocks (11), and is shooting .500 overall for the season.

The Tigers have three other starters tallying between 9.6 and 10.7 points, including freshman guard Moe Moore (10.7 ppg, 5.7 rpg, .508 fg). Five-nine graduate guard Mia Ehling follows at 10.4 points with 14 three-pointers in 30 attempts, and junior guard Anjelai Hayes provides 9.6 points and 3.1 assists a game.

Holy Family, which starts only one player taller than 5-9, has been outrebounded by four a game for the season, but that wasn't a problem in the USciences game when they finished with 14 more, 37-23. Moore, with 13, and Radley, with 11, combined for more than the Devils had as a team. Adding perspective to that, Bentley was outrebounded by six in a season-opening loss to USciences.

Bentley is 11-2 all-time against Holy Family and earned a ninth consecutive win in the series when the two teams last met in Philadelphia in November 2017 (71-58). Here at the Dana Center, the Falcons are 7-0 against the Tigers.

Bentley will close out the 2019 portion of the schedule next Saturday at home against Southern New Hampshire.