WALTHAM, Mass. – After dropping two in a row and three of the last four, the Bentley University women's basketball team will look to close out the regular season on a winning note and secure the second seed in the Northeast-10 Northeast Division when the Falcons host Saint Anselm College Tuesday night at the Dana Center. The 5:30 pm game will be streamed on the NE10 NOW Digital Network.

Prior to the game, Bentley will hold Senior Night festivities and will recognize its three senior captains – Kari Brekke (Appleton, Wis./Appleton North HS), Kolleen Bouchard (Houlton, Maine/ Houlton HS) and Hartlee Meier (Southington, Conn./Marianapolis Prep) – along with graduate student Autumn Ceppi (Bedford/Dana Hall School).

Bentley will enter the game with records of 14-8 overall and 12-6 NE10. The Falcons lead Stonehill by a half-game in the battle for second and need a victory to be the Northeast Division's number two seed. A loss would make Bentley the third seed for the conference championships, which get underway on Friday.

Saint Anselm, which is locked into the Northeast number four seed, is 14-11 overall and 10-8 conference. The Hawks have won four of their last five, the last two in convincing fashion (89-51 vs. Franklin Pierce, 71-38 vs. St. Michael's).

Bentley, which is coming off back-to-back road losses to Assumption and Franklin Pierce, won at Saint Anselm back on Nov. 17, 67-60. The Falcons pulled that one out with a closing 17-5 run that erased a five-point deficit. Brekke and junior guard Ella Thompson (Greenwood, Ind./Center Grove HS) led the offense, combining for 33 points, including 23 in the second half.

Ceppi, in her only Bentley season after spending four at Bucknell, leads the Falcons in scoring and rebounding with averages of 13.6 points and 7.0 boards. She was a force in the Franklin Pierce game, finishing with 18 points, 11 rebounds, eight offensive rebounds, five assists and five steals.

Ceppi starts for coach C White, along with Brekke, Thompson, sophomore guard Maggie Whitmore (South Portland, Maine/South Portland HS) and freshman guard Amanda Kabantu (Portland, Maine/Portland HS). Thompson (13.0 ppg) has 53 three-pointers, third most in the conference, and Brekke (10.9) is the conference's most accurate from distance, shooting .443. That includes 20 of 40 over the last ten games.

Saint Anselm features the conference's top scoring duo in senior guard Peyton Steinman and sophomore guard Gabby Turco. Steinman leads the NE10 with 20.5 points per game and Turco, in her rookie season, follows at 16.3, sixth best. Combined, they account for 56 percent of the Hawks' points this season.

Steinman, one of two NE10 players with more triples than Brekke, has career totals exceeding 1,700 points, 700 rebounds and 300 assists.

Bentley (68.5) and Saint Anselm (66.0) are both in the top five in the NE10 in scoring, Defensively, the Falcons are third and the Hawks are seventh.