Box Score PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y.  – Bentley University senior forward Kylie DuCharme (Wilmington, Mass./Wilmington HS) continued her strong start to the season as the Falcon women's basketball team rallied in the second quarter and went on to post a 67-57 win over Pace University Wednesday night in the Northeast-10 Conference opener at the Goldstein Athletics Center.
 
Bentley, the ninth ranked team in the WBCA Division II preseason coaches poll, improved to 3-0 on the young season. Pace remained winless following three contests.
 
DuCharme stuffed the stat sheet with 20 points, 12 rebounds, two assists, two steals and a block. She's averaging 17.7 points and ten rebounds while shooting .586 overall and .882 from the foul stripe.
 
Down 19-14 after an opening stanza in which the Setters shot 67 percent, Bentley outscored the home team 20-6 in the second and took a 34-25 lead into intermission. Junior guard Cassidy Yeomans (Marion, Mass./Tabor Academy) matched Pace's point total in the second, DuCharme contributed five points and as many rebounds, and three other Falcons also scored in the quarter.
 
Bentley, up seven after three, opened the fourth with an 8-2 spurt to take its biggest lead of the night, 60-47, with 6:35 to play. The run included five points from graduate forward Maggie Whitmore (South Portland, Maine/South Portland HS), including a three-ball from the right side.
 
Pace responded with an 8-0 run, including five points from senior forward Arianna Stockinger (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), and the Falcon advantage was down to five, 60-55, with just under three minutes to play. Coach C White's squad countered with a 7-2 closing run to lock up the victory. DuCharme made two free throws, graduate guard Brooke Obar (North Yarmouth, Maine/Greely HS) hit her second three of the game and senior guard Amanda Kabantu (Portland, Maine/Portland HS) closed out the scoring with two free throws.
 
Whitmore followed DuCharme in the scoring column with nine of her 11 coming in the second half. Yeomans and Obar each scored eight and both Kabantu and sophomore guard Niya Morgen (Swampscott, Mass./St. Mary's HS) each finished with six.
 
Stockinger led four double-figure scorers for Pace with 17 points.
 
Bentley outshot the Setters 48-42 percent, made 14 of 15 free throws and dominated the boards, 35-20. The Falcons were a plus-10 in points in the paint (34-24) and had a 14-0 advantage in bench points.
 
The Falcons will launch a five-game homestand Sunday afternoon against St. Thomas Aquinas.