WALTHAM, Mass. – Sophomore guard Niya Morgan (Swampscott/St. Mary's HS) buried a career-best six of her team's 14 three-pointers and finished with her first career 20-point game as Bentley University wrapped up a 4-1 homestand with a 90-56 win over Chestnut Hill College in non-conference women's basketball Sunday afternoon on Barbara Stevens Court.
 
It was a team effort for coach C White's team as seven Falcons scored at least nine points, including two, graduate forward Maggie Whitmore (South Portland, Maine/South Portland HS) and junior guard Cassidy Yeomans (Marion/Tabor Academy), who had double-doubles.
 
Bentley, 7-1 overall and the sixth-ranked team in the latest WBCA Division II coaches poll, took charge from the start as the Falcons finished the opening stanza with a 22-7 lead. Six different players scored for the home team in the quarter and the Falcons limited the Griffins to just three baskets in 17 attempts.
 
The first included a run of 12 unanswered that made it 15-3 six-and-a-half minutes into the game. Whitmore broke a 3-3 tie, senior forward Kylie DuCharme (Wilmington/Wilmington HS) converted a three-point play, junior forward Ciara Norman (Roebling, N.J./Life Center Academy) made two inside baskets and Yeomans connected from distance.
 
Bentley, which scored either 22 or 23 points in every quarter, was up 45-28 at the half after scoring five points in the final 50 seconds. DuCharme had a second-chance basket and Whitmore sank a top-of-the-key trey.
 
Chestnut Hill (3-6) scored the first two points of the third, but any hopes of a Griffin comeback were dashed when the Falcons ran of 13 straight to open a commanding 58-30 lead. Five players registered points during the surge, including DuCharme with four and Morgen with the first of her four triples in the quarter.
 
Morgen made it 67-43 after three by connecting three times from the corners in the final 2:08, one from the left and the other two from the right corner. She also opened the fourth quarter scoring with a three-ball from the right wing.
 
Morgen finished six of nine from downtown and elevated her season accuracy mark from deep to .576 (19 of 33).
 
 DuCharme followed with 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting, and eight rebounds, and Whitmore had a 10-point, 10-rebound double-double. Yeomans had a career-high 10 assists to go along with her 10 points, and Bentley received nine apiece from Norman, graduate guard Brooke Obar (North Yarmouth, Maine/Greely HS) and senior guard Amanda Kabantu (Portland, Maine/Portland HS).
 
Bentley outshot Chestnut Hill 48-44 percent and outscored the visitors by 30 points from downtown. The Falcons were 14 of 28 from deep while the Griffins were four of 12.
 
Chestnut Hill's top scorer were senior guard Siobhan Boyle (Morton, Pa.), with 10 points off the bench.
 
Bentley, which won't play at home again until after the new year, finished with a 25-8 advantage in points off turnovers and received 35 points from the bench. White's team was a plus-six in rebounds and committed only 11 turnovers, seven less than Chestnut Hill.
 
The Falcons will play their next five on the road, beginning Wednesday at Molloy University (5 pm).