LOUISVILLE, Ky. --- The Bellarmine University women's basketball team ran out of gas and fell 115-113 in overtime to the visiting Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers in a Great Lakes Valley Conference game that will have major implications for the upcoming postseason.

With the loss, Bellarmine (13-12, 7-10 GLVC) falls a game behind Kentucky Wesleyan (14-11, 8-9 GLVC) for eighth place in the conference standings and the right to host a first round GLVC Tournament game. Both teams will wrap up the regular season next Thursday.

The game also marked the final regular season home game for senior Allison Matheis who also became the 25th member of Bellarmine's 1,000 point club during the game. The wing from Dubois, Ind. finished with 20 points and seven rebounds. Matheis also went 4-9 from beyond the arc, giving her 89 threes on the season, which is tied for the single season school record that she already shares with Betsy Young.

Junior guard Kylie Brady led all scorers with a career-high 36 points on 12-19 field goal attempts and a perfect 7-7 from the free throw line. Her 36 points are the fifth most in school history and most since Lyndsey Neal scored 34 against SIU-Edwardsville on March 5, 2003.

Bellarmine jumped on the Panthers in the first half, leading by as many as 10 midway through the period. But Kentucky Wesleyan climbed back into the game and scored the final six points of the half to take a 40-39 lead into the break.

It would be a slugfest between two rivals in a second half that saw 12 ties and 11 lead changes. Bellarmine was up 100-97 with 14 seconds remaining, but KWC's Kourtney Rhodes nailed a three from the right wing with one second left to send the game into overtime.

Overtime was tense throughout as neither team led by more than three points.  With 12 seconds left and Kentucky Wesleyan up by two, 113-111, sophomore Therese Montano found an open lane and laid in two of her 13 points to tie the game up.

The Knights would get a deflection on the ensuing inbounds, but while scrambling for the ball Bellarmine was whistled for a foul, sending KWC's Kristen Rowe to the free throw line with four seconds on the clock. Rowe would nail both free throws and Kylee Hamilton's three at the buzzer rattled out to give Wesleyan the victory.

Betsy Goodin (17 points) and Allison Osen (16) would also reach double-figures for Bellarmine. Kentucky Wesleyan placed six players in double-figures led by Katie Behrens's 30 off the bench.

Bellarmine will now need to go on the road and win at Northern Kentucky next Thursday combined with  Kentucky Wesleyan losing  to Southern Indiana in order to earn a first round GLVC home game. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday in Highland Heights.

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