WALTHAM, Mass. – After attaining several milestones already this week, the Bentley University Falcons will look to add a 20th NE10 title to the list when they square off against Adelphi University Sunday afternoon in the Northeast-10 Conference women's basketball championship game.

Game time at the Center for Recreation and Sport in Garden City, N.Y. is set for 1 pm with a free webcast available at www.northeast10.tv.

Bentley, 26-4 and ranked 12th in the latest WBCA Division II coaches poll, posted two impressive wins to reach the finals, disposing of Merrimack College and Saint Anselm College by an average of 32.5 points with scores of 76-43 and 81-49 respectively.

Adelphi, 25-4 and number 14 in the rankings, advanced with wins over Southern Connecticut State (69-52) and Le Moyne College (67-57). Neither came easy as the Panthers trailed Southern by two early in the fourth and Le Moyne by as many as 19 in the second quarter.

While both teams are number one seeds, Adelphi earned the right to host by virtue of a 62-60 win in the head-to-head meeting back in January, a game also played at the CSR. There were a dozen lead changes in that one, including five in the fourth quarter, before Adelphi made three free throws in the final 11 seconds to pull out the win.

Bentley's week of milestones began with the Falcons reaching the 25-win plateau for the 23rd time during the win over Merrimack Sunday afternoon.

On Thursday against Saint Anselm, both senior All-America forward Jen Gemma (Milton/ Fontbonne Academy) and junior guard Lauren Green (Damascus, Md./Damascus HS) had historic baskets during a fourth quarter the Falcons outscored the Hawks 24-4.

Gemma tied and broke Lauren Battista's career scoring record with field goals about 80 seconds apart. Her lay-up with 5:37 left gave her 2,112 points, matching the mark Battista set from 2010-14, and her three-point play in transition following a steal from junior guard Macchi Smith (Los Angeles, Calif./Windward School) elevated her to the top of the list with 2,115.

A little more than two minutes before Gemma became Bentley's all-time leading scorer, Green became the program's 34th 1,000-point scorer when she knocked down a three-ball from the right side. More than half of those have come from downtown with Green's 182 career three-pointers fifth most in school history.

Five of the 11 first- and second-team All-Conference selections will be in action Sunday, including Gemma, the NE10 Player of the Year for the second straight year. She was joined on the first team by the Adelphi frontcourt tandem of Sierra Clark and Calli Balfour. Bentley's Green and Smith were both voted to the All-NE10 second team, and the Coach of the Year, for the amazing 15th time, was the Falcons' Barbara Stevens.

Gemma and Clark are two of the four NE10 players ranked in the top five in the conference in both scoring and rebounding. Clark (19.3 ppg, 10.1 rpg) is second in both categories while Gemma is fourth in scoring (18.6) and fifth in rebounds (8.7). Her numbers have picked up during the current 14-game winning streak, to 19.9 points and 10.6 rebounds.

Bentley's other double-figure scorers are Green and Smith, with averages of 12.4 and 10.9, respectively. Balfour follows Clark on the Adelphi scoring list, contributing 15 points and 8.6 rebounds a game.

In the semifinal win over Saint Anselm, junior guard Trevena Bennett (Union, N.J./Gill St. Bernard) and sophomore forward Victoria Lux (Arundel, Maine/Thornton Academy) both stepped up. Bennett, 7 of 15 from three in the last four games, scored a season-best 17 points, including 11 in the first half. Lux had her sixth double-double in the last ten games, finishing with 15 and 12.

Statistically on offense, Bentley has held the edge this season. Coach Stevens' team averages a conference-best 71.7 points while shooting .440 overall, .367 from three and .749 at the line. Adelphi, on the other hand, scores 65.3 a game while percentages of .394 overall, .272 from deep and .707 free throws.

On defense, Adelphi gives up 55.0 points, 1.8 less than the Falcons, with its opponents shooting .358, slightly lower than the Falcons' defensive mark of .361. The Panthers' 8.5 rebound margin is slightly better than Bentley's 7.5, and Adelphi forces two more turnovers a game.

Bentley will be looking to halt a three-game slide in the series with the last Falcon victory over the Panthers coming during the national championship season of 2014.