LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Bellarmine University women's basketball team will enter the postseason on an emphatic high note.

On Saturday afternoon in the regular-season finale, the Knights held off a comeback-minded Austin Peay squad for a 76-71 victory in Atlantic Sun Conference action in Freedom Hall.

Bellarmine (10-18, 5-11 ASUN) capped perhaps its best week of play this season after also defeating Lipscomb on Thursday, a win that clinched a berth in the ASUN Tournament. Not content to rest on that huge victory, the Knights finished the regular season in style with a triumph over Austin Peay (15-15, 8-8), which had won four of its last five games.

One of four players honored on Senior Day, forward Cam Browning posted her second straight double-double after amassing 18 points and 10 rebounds while going 7-for-7 from the field. Sophomore guard Miyah Brown poured in a team-high 21 points with four assists and junior guard Hayley Harrison collected eight points, six rebounds, four assists and three steals.

Hope Sivori joined the 1,000-point club for her college career on her fifth point against Austin Peay. The junior guard transferred to Bellarmine from Western Kentucky this season and finished with nine points, five assists and two steals.

Celebrated alongside Browning, senior guard Claire Knies notched eight points, senior forward Lucy Robertson added five and three rebounds, and senior guard Mackenzie Keelin buried a 3-pointer while also chipping in a steal and an assist.

It was a quintessential game of runs, with a 13-2 burst by Bellarmine staking the Knights to a 58-45 lead heading into the fourth quarter. Both teams answered throughout the contest, and Austin Peay regrouped in the last period with a 15-4 response to cut its deficit to two with 3:26 left.

It was Bellarmine's turn to answer the call, and the Knights did after Sivori found Browning and Harrison spotted Robertson for layups and a 66-61 lead with 2:15 remaining. A little later, in one motion, Brown corralled a teammate's blocked shot on its way down and put it back in. Harrison then fired to Sivori for a back-door layup and 70-63 lead with a minute left.

Austin Peay banked in its second 3-pointer of the quarter and got within three on a pair of occasions, but Sivori and Browning followed by canning a pair of free throws, the latter by Browning icing the game with five seconds left.

Bellarmine shot 49.2 percent — its second-highest mark in ASUN play — and had a 44-28 advantage in points in the paint. The Knights committed only eight turnovers and forced 15 while producing 16 points off the takeaways.

Bellarmine, the 10-seed, will play the 9-seed in the first round of the ASUN Tournament on Friday at host FGCU.

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