The American International College women's soccer team concludes Northeast-10 Conference play with a match at the Bentley Falcons.

LAST TIME OUT: AIC struggled to score against top-seeded Adelphi in a torrential downpour on Long Island, falling 3-1 in the battle of top-two teams in the conference. Adelphi pounced on a rebound in the twelfth minute as Morgan Santoro netted her NE-10 best twenty-first of the season. The Panthers added two goals in the second half, with a header by Erica Bleimeyer in the sixty-fourth minute and a breakaway goal by Victoria Antonino in the eighty-seventh minute. Bleimeyer's tally ended up standing as the winning goal when AIC broke the shutout in the penultimate minute on the first career goal of rookie back Alanna Gracia.

Bentley visited Saint Michael's and walked away 3-1 winners against the Purple Knights. Paige Laliberte had the opening score in the fiftieth minute and Ana Tantum added a nice tally, firing across the field from the left side of the box into the right side of the target in the sixty-ninth minute. That would prove crucial as the Purple Knights responded less than four minutes later by finishing a play on a corner to cut the lead to 2-1. However, the last goal of the day belonged to the Falcons, as Peyton Kent added an insurance marker in the eighty-fifth minute.

LAST TIME THEY MET: In last year's senior night game, it was a pair of then-juniors leading the way for AIC in a 2-0 win against Bentley on October 28, 2015. Less-than-ideal weather conditions helped keep the contest scoreless at halftime, but early in the second frame, senior Merissa Phipps broke the deadlock as she took a pass from sophomore Johanna Nilsson, cut right around a defender and fired back to the left post for a 1-0 lead in the fiftieth minute. Senior Jessica Margaretta doubled the lead by taking a pass over the keeper and tipping it into the open cage in the seventy-fifth minute. AIC had nine shots on target in all, compared to two for the Falcons.

SECOND IS THE BEST: AIC can lock up the conference's second seed in the Northeast-10 Championship Tournament with a win or draw today, or a tie or loss for Stonehill in either of their final two games. The Skyhawks play Merrimack today concurrently with AIC's game, and then visit Le Moyne on Saturday. AIC has already locked up one home game in the postseason opener on November 1, but could add a potential second one for the Semifinal on November 4.

DOWN BUT UP?: Last season, AIC managed 31 standings points as they went 10-3-1 in NE-10 play. Even with a win today, they will come up short of that, as a 10-4-0 record would put them at 30 points. However, 30 points would be good for second place this season in a much more even league, where last year's 31 was only good enough for third.

NEXT UP: AIC hosts Molloy on Friday at 2:00 p.m. The matchup will be senior day, as AIC celebrates the careers of the three members of the class of 2017.