LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sunday's match at Owsley B. Frazier Stadium featured fierce winds. And the Bellarmine University men's soccer team promptly blew away Quincy.

Junior midfielder Gilio Aviles delivered a hat trick as the second-seeded Knights throttled the seventh-seeded Hawks 4-0 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinals.

Sophomore midfielder Micah Linscott added a goal for Bellarmine (11-5-1), which notched its first GLVC Tournament victory since 2011. Linscott, freshman midfielder Jon Tryggvi Arason, sophomore defender Greg Fischer, junior midfielder Mark Lanham and freshman forward Laslo Wanger each registered an assist against Quincy (8-9-2) for the Knights, who are one win shy of tying the program record.

Bellarmine will meet six-seed McKendree in the GLVC Tournament semifinals at noon (ET) Friday in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The Bearcats defeated three-seed Illinois Springfield, 3-0.

Aviles entered the contest with one goal this season and left tied for third on the team. His first came just 7 minutes into the match following a combination of passes, as he fired a shot from 8 yards that hit the bottom of the crossbar and torpedoed down, breaking the plane for a 1-0 lead. Arason and Linscott assisted on the play.

Bellarmine faced the stiff wind in the first half. Taking the early lead and holding off the Hawks before the intermission proved to be critical. When the Knights had the gusty wind at their backs in the second half, they dominated the Hawks with a 14-2 shot advantage in the frame and piled up three more goals.

Aviles scored his second goal in the 58th minute. It came on a sublime connection with Fischer, as Fischer curled a free kick toward the top of the goal area, and Aviles sped through traffic to ram in a diving header for a 2-0 lead.

That started the onslaught. In the 80th minute, Lanham spotted Linscott and he rifled in a shot from near the top of the box for a 3-0 advantage. The goal marked Linscott's 11th of the season.

Aviles secured a hat trick in the 83rd minute. Wanger found him near the top of the goal area, and Aviles fired in his third goal of the match for a 4-0 lead.

Bellarmine finished with a 19-8 advantage in shots. Freshman goalkeeper Connor Range collected four saves, and he and the defense posted their seventh shutout.

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