RICHMOND, Ky. — The Bellarmine University baseball team overtook Eastern Kentucky and then evened things up when the Colonels regained control, but EKU had the final response in completing an ASUN series sweep with a 17-13 victory Sunday over the Knights at Earle Combs Stadium.

The contest between Eastern Kentucky (17-8, 5-1 ASUN) and Bellarmine (3-20, 1-5) could not have been more different than Saturday's offensively deprived game that saw the Colonels capture a 2-0 win as the teams combined for only seven hits. On Sunday, they combined for 30 runs on a hefty 28 hits, with the Colonels amassing 17 and the Knights accumulating 11.

Bellarmine tied its season high for runs, homers (three) and doubles (four). Junior third baseman Peyton Back launched a grand slam, sophomore first baseman Davis Crane smacked a three-run homer and junior catcher Gabe Bratetic cranked a solo shot.

Back also doubled, as did senior left fielder Matt Higgins twice while senior center fielder Jack Ockerman added another two-bagger. Back, Crane, Higgins and Ockerman tallied two hits apiece. Senior right fielder Jacob Mulcahy contributed two RBIs.

After limited offense in the first two games of the series, Bellarmine, trailing 5-1 after three innings, got a jolt from Bratetic in the fourth when he smashed a solo shot for his second homer of the season. The Knights added two more runs in the stanza, the second on Higgins' first double, to get within 5-4.

Higgins' second double followed one by Ockerman in the seventh, plating him with the tying run. With two outs, Mulcahy drove in the go-ahead run with an RBI single. Bratetic was hit by a pitch after a pitching change, and after another switch on the mound, Back unloaded on a pitch for a grand slam as his third homer of the season pushed the lead to 10-5.

Eastern Kentucky trumped Bellarmine's six-run top half with an eight-run bottom half, as the teams combined for 14 runs in the seventh inning alone. The Colonels had six hits in the frame as they regained the advantage at 13-10.

Not to be outdone, Bellarmine answered in the top of the eighth as Ockerman singled, Higgins drew a walk and, with two outs, Crane crushed a tying three-run homer to right center for his second long ball of the season.

Unfortunately, Eastern Kentucky had yet another response, as the Colonels opened the bottom of the eighth with four straight hits en route to a four-run inning. That proved to be the final blow, although Bellarmine did threaten in the ninth after Bratetic and Back opened the inning with walks before Vladimir Ceverino — the last of a combined 14 pitchers used in the game — came on and recorded three straight outs.

Bellarmine will host Butler at 2 p.m. (ET) Tuesday.

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