LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The situation was begging for a senior moment.

And Jacob Rowold was only too happy to oblige.

Among a group of 10 seniors honored Saturday at Knights Field, Rowold smashed a walk-off RBI double as Bellarmine secured an Atlantic Sun Conference series sweep over Eastern Kentucky with a dramatic 10-9 victory in the season finale.

In the first season under Ben Reel's stewardship, Bellarmine (17-38, 11-19 ASUN) set a new Division I-era record for wins by four victories, and Saturday marked the Knights' fourth triumph in a row, as BU followed a historic 10-9 midweek win over No. 21 Louisville by taking all three contests against in-state rival EKU (11-44, 8-22).

In addition, Bellarmine's 11 wins in ASUN play represents a D1-era record. The Knights preceded Saturday's victory over EKU with 8-6 and 10-3 victories over the Colonels.

Bellarmine looked it might cruise in the series finale after building a 7-1 lead through six innings. However, the complexion of the game drastically changed in the seventh, as EKU piled up eight runs highlighted by a grand slam by Tait Nunnally to suddenly surge ahead 9-7.

Bellarmine had an immediate response. After Rowold singled leading off the bottom half, freshman Mason Acton launched the first homer of his collegiate career, a two-run shot that knotted it up at 9.

Neither team scored in the eighth and right-hander Arren Hash, a senior who fittingly earned the win, tossed a scoreless ninth as well. The bottom half started with promise for the Knights as junior Luke Scales led off with a single.

That set the stage for Rowold, who hammered a deep drive to center that cleared the outfielder's reach. The EKU player had some trouble gathering the ball at the wall, and Scales flew around third base, motoring home and sliding through the plate just ahead of a high relay throw with the winning run.

The Knights mobbed Rowold at second base, and senior Seth Sweet-Chick doused his ring of teammates with the water cooler. Bellarmine began this week with its first-ever D1-era win over a nationally ranked opponent after defeating Louisville in equally breathtaking fashion on an incredible game-ending catch by senior Jackson Case, who made another highlight-reel grab in the ninth against EKU.

Bellarmine built a 6-0 lead after four innings. Scales followed a lead-off single in the first by freshman Landon Akers with an RBI double, and Case added an RBI double in the second.

Scales' solo homer in the third — his second of the season — was a frozen rope to left. In the same inning, junior Charlie Rife unloaded a majestic solo shot to left, and his sixth round-tripper of the year boosted the lead to 4-0.

Rowold followed the next inning by smacking a two-run double. In the sixth, after an Akers triple, junior Joey Milto lofted a sacrifice fly as the Knights led 7-1.

The wheels fell off in the seventh, but Bellarmine recovered by bookending its week of play with another electrifying finish.

With his single leading off the game, Akers set a new D1-era program record for single-season hits and finished with 80, overtaking a legend in 2022 ASUN Player of the Year and All-American Matt Higgins, who amassed 78 in his seminal season.

The Knights piled up 14 hits, with Scales and Rowold registering three apiece while Akers collected two. Sophomore right-hander Chase Carver fired 5.0 splendid innings, allowing only one run on one hit in his start.

Case, Rowold, Hash, Casey Sorg, Sweet-Chick, Mike Sokol, Cooper Hellman, Blake Donnan, Cole McMichael and Hudson Cornett were celebrated on Senior Day.

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