Brooke Coderre with 11 points for the Ravens
WALTHAM, Mass. (February 25, 2014) – Courtney Finn
scored 22 points, and No. 1 Bentley scored the game's first
14 en route to a 100-57 win over the Franklin Pierce University
women's basketball team on Tuesday night at the Dana Center
in Waltham, Mass.
The Falcons capped their regular
season with a perfect 26-0 overall record and a 21-0 mark in the
Northeast-10, while the Ravens concluded their regular season with
a 15-11 mark and a 12-9 record in league play.
Franklin Pierce now advances to
action Friday night when the Ravens play host to Southern
Connecticut State in the first round of the 2014 Northeast-10
Conference Championship. The game will tip at 7 p.m. in The
Fieldhouse in Rindge.
Bentley shot 55 percent from the
field, and were even more lethal from three-point range going at a
78-percent clip (7-of-9). Joining Finn in double-figures were
Lauren Battista with 18 points, Jen Gemma with 16, and Christiana
Bakolas with 10.
Sophomore forward Kara
Charette (Fairhaven, Mass.) paced Franklin Pierce with 20
points, while senior guard Brooke Coderre (Woonsocket,
R.I.) followed with 11 points. The Ravens were 41 percent
from the field, and only 20 percent from three-point range
(2-of-10).
After opening the game on a 14-0
run, the Falcons eventually went up 25-2 eight minutes in.
The Ravens tried to claw back, and
got give points from Coderre on a three and a jumper to pull within
32-17. However, Bentley countered with six-consecutive points to go
up by 21, and eventually built a 50-29 lead at halftime. Charette
and Finn each had 13 points in the opening 20 minutes.
Bentley continued to add to its
margin in the second half in not looking back for the win.
For more information on Franklin
Pierce women's basketball, please visit the team's page
at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu. To follow
the program even further, please visit Franklin Pierce Athletics on
YouTube (www.youtube.com/FranklinPierceSports),
Twitter (www.twitter.com/FPUathletics)
and Facebook (www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceRavens).
Fans wishing to purchase Franklin Pierce women's basketball
apparel can do so on the athletic department's online store
at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu/store(.)