RICHMOND, Ky. — Senior forward Skylar Treadwell registered a career-high 24 points with 15 rebounds, but the Bellarmine University women's basketball team couldn't keep pace with Eastern Kentucky down the stretch as the Colonels pulled away for a 91-75 win Saturday in Atlantic Sun Conference play at Baptist Health Arena.

In addition to Treadwell's fourth double-double of the season, senior guard Ashlee Harris fell just one point shy of a career high after tallying 17 points for Bellarmine (12-7, 3-3 ASUN). Senior guard Hayley Harrison chipped in 13 points and seven rebounds against EKU (13-6, 3-3), junior guard Miyah Brown pulled down 10 boards and senior guard Hope Sivori notched four assists and four steals.

Alice Recanati led five EKU players in double figures with 23 points. The Colonels shot 50 percent from the field for the game while amassing 21 assists. They also went 18-for-22 from the FT line.

EKU threatened to run away with it early. The Colonels led 20-10 after the first quarter, and their advantage ballooned to 19 with four minutes left in the second period.

Senior guard Mia Beam triggered a 12-2 run with a 3-pointer as Bellarmine cut its deficit to 39-28 at halftime. In the third quarter, Harris and Sivori followed an old-fashioned three-point play by Treadwell by canning shots from deep as the Knights raced back to within three.

EKU built the lead back to 10 in the period, but Bellarmine chopped its deficit to three two more times in the frame, the last on a deep, banked 3-pointer by Sivori at the buzzer.

Bellarmine couldn't sustain its momentum in the fourth. A 9-0 run by EKU extended the lead to 72-60 with 6:45 left. The Knights wouldn't get closer than eight thereafter.

Bellarmine will play at 6:30 p.m. (ET) Thursday at reigning ASUN champion FGCU.

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