OZARK, Mo. — The No. 24 Bellarmine University baseball team tied and then broke the program record for single-season wins in the very same day.

And the Knights sure didn't leave a shred of doubt Saturday night in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament when it came to the record breaker.

Competing in its second game of the day, Bellarmine pounded Quincy 13-4 at U.S. Baseball Park behind a complete-game effort from junior left-hander Alex Phillips and a mammoth 18 hits at the plate.

Bellarmine and Quincy will square off in a rematch at 1:30 p.m. (ET) Sunday in an elimination game. The winner advances to the 5 p.m. title game where it will face either Southern Indiana or Indianapolis.

The Knights (37-16) had tied the program record for victories earlier Saturday with a 6-1 win over Maryville. The GLVC East's two-seed then shattered the mark in a romp over West two-seed Quincy (37-16) in which Bellarmine tied the program's second-highest run total ever in the GLVC Tournament.

Bellarmine's 18 hits were its third-highest output of the season. Four different Knights compiled three-hit games — senior shortstop Drew Greenwood, freshman first baseman Jacob Mulcahy, junior right fielder Zac Wiley and senior second baseman Alex Ralph. Senior left fielder Griffin Neuer and junior designated hitter Jacob Pendred added two hits apiece.

After dropping its tournament opener to Maryville, Bellarmine has won three straight contests. The Knights couldn't have asked for much better pitching from their four starters — junior left-hander Eddie Mathis, senior left-hander Hunter Spencer, sophomore right-hander Jacob Nagel and Phillips all tossed 7.1 innings or more and allowed four earned runs or less.

Phillips (5-1) fired the first 9.0-inning complete game of his career at Bellarmine. Further underscoring the excellence and timeliness of his performance was that his longest previous outing this season had been 5.0 innings.

The southpaw initially appeared as if his stint on the mound would be short after allowing a triple and two doubles in a two-run first, but other than a two-run homer in the sixth, the Hawks couldn't do any further damage against him. Phillips struck out seven with one walk and allowed eight hits.

Bellarmine consistently produced runs throughout both its games Saturday. The Knights scored in six different innings against Quincy, tallying two apiece in the first and sixth, one each in the fourth and fifth, three in the eighth and four in the ninth.

Bellarmine went ahead for good on a Pendred RBI double in the fourth. Neuer drilled a triple off the wall in the fifth and scored on junior third baseman Josh Finerty's single. Greenwood and Wiley both had RBI singles in the sixth.

Wiley was achingly close to a three-run homer in the eighth before settling for an RBI double off the top of the wall. Ralph followed with a two-run single in the inning. Greenwood and Mulcahy both had RBI singles in the ninth.

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