INDIANAPOLIS — The trio of Princess German, Nicole Anderson and Kelly Walter was too much for the Bellarmine University women's basketball team on Thursday night as Indianapolis defeated the visiting Knights 89-72 at Nicoson Hall in Great Lakes Valley Conference play.

Indy's three standouts combined to register 73 points for the Greyhounds (7-7, 4-2 GLVC), who posted their best scoring effort of the season. German (28 points) and Anderson (25) both had career highs while Walter added 20 points. Anderson was nearly flawless, making seven of her eight attempts from the floor while sinking 9 of 10 from the free throw line.

After winning its first three GLVC games, Bellarmine (8-5, 3-2) has now dropped two straight. Freshman guard Raven Merriweather led the Knights in scoring for the third straight time, recording 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting in addition to tying a game high with seven rebounds. Freshman forward and Indianapolis native Beth Bowers chipped in 10 points for BU, while senior forward Morgan Clemons and sophomore guard Destony Curry contributed nine apiece. Merriweather and Bowers made the first starts of their respective collegiate careers.

Bellarmine struggled mightily from the field and the free throw line. The Knights shot 37.5 percent overall and 58.3 percent from the charity stripe. They had been knocking down 75 percent of their freebies. Junior guard Mariah Gador finally missed at the line, ending a string of 19 straight to start the season when she missed her final attempt. Gador is now shooting at a 95-percent clip.

Indianapolis, on the other hand, was accurate for most of the contest. The Greyhounds shot 53.3 percent from the floor and made 34 of 40 (85 percent) from the free throw line. Bellarmine ripped down 21 offensive rebounds, forced Indy into 18 turnovers and attempted 27 more shots, but the Knights couldn't translate those advantages into enough points.

Indianapolis led by as many as 14 points in the first half before owning a 42-34 edge at the break. With 14:20 left in the second half, the Greyhounds went up 54-43, but the Knights responded with a 9-0 run in their best stretch of play in the game.

Gador stuck a putback, Clemons converted a traditional three-point play off a feed from Bowers and Curry drilled a 3-pointer as Bellarmine raced back to within 54-52 with under 12 minutes left.

Unfortunately, the Knights couldn't sustain the comeback. Indianapolis thwarted the attempt with an 11-0 run and, while Bellarmine trimmed its deficit to six with 3:57 left, the Greyhounds pulled away late behind 20 second-half points from German. She took all 14 of her free throw attempts in the second half, hitting 11 of them.

The contest marked the third of a five-game road swing for Bellarmine. The Knights play Saint Joseph's at 2 p.m. (ET) on Saturday at the Richard F. Scharf Alumni Fieldhouse.

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