RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky sank 17 of 34 three-point attempts and Bellarmine suffered a second straight subpar shooting night Saturday at Baptist Health Arena as the Colonels earned an 89-69 win.
 
Bellarmine (6-12, 1-5 ASUN) made a season-low 20 shots on 50 attempts (.400), marking their second-worst shooting performance of the season following their .371 clip Thursday at Lipscomb. The Knights also connected on just 6 of 23 three-pointers (.261).
 
Meanwhile, Eastern Kentucky (7-12, 3-3 ASUN) posted a season-best .500 three-point percentage and shot .528 overall to win their third game out of their last four.
 
The contest was tied at 7-7 at the first media timeout as Kenyon Goodin had a putback layup and connected on a three early. EKU would take their first lead at 10-9 as Bellarmine would go over six minutes without a field goal. Still, a Tyler Doyle layup broke the dry spell and tied the game back at 13-13.
 
From that point, however, Bellarmine would go yet another six minutes without a field goal and the Colonels would take advantage with a 16-0 run that included two dunks and four made threes.
 
Doyle eventually found Jacob Wassler with a long pass to break a Colonels press and lead to a dunk to momentarily stop the bleeding with the Knights trailing 31-14.
 
The Colonels' lead would reach 19 in the first half before Sam Donald knocked down a three from the left shoulder just before the halftime buzzer sounded to cut the Knights' deficit to 16 at the break, 40-24.
 
EKU's Turner Butry went 3 for 5 from deep in the first half and led all scorers with 11.
 
Bellarmine would parlay the three by Donald at the end of the first into a 10-0 run after scoring the first seven points in the second half to cut the deficit to nine at 40-31. The spurt out of the locker room included layups by Brian Waddell and Jack Karasinski and another trey by Donald.
 
The margin would shrink to four a few minutes later as Donovan Hunter hit threes on back-to-back possessions to make it 45-41 in favor of EKU.
 
The Colonels, however, responded with a 10-0 run during a stretch where they would hit seven of eight shots as part of a larger 23-8 run. EKU sank four consecutive three-point attempts at one point, three of them by MJ Williams, to stake a 68-49 lead.
 
EKU would close it out from there, maintaining a lead between 17 and 22 points the rest of the way en route to an 89-69 win.
 
Waddell led the Knights with 15 points, nine of them coming at the charity stripe, as he attempted a season-low six shots, connecting on three of them. He was the only Knight in double digits.
 
Battling foul trouble in the second half, Karasinski netted a season-low six points to mark the first time this season he did not reach double-digit points.
 
Donald finished with eight points, Hunter with seven. Darrius Bolden chipped in a Division I career-high eight points. Doyle matched a season high with five assists.
 
Williams led all scorers with 16, all in the second half. Butry added three freebies in the second half to finish with 14, but did not attempt another shot. Three other Colonels finished in double digits: Jackson Holt (14), Jalen Cooper (13) and Montavious Myrick (10). Myrick was 4 of 5 from the floor with three dunks.

EKU outrebounded Bellarmine 37-24 and held a 22-8 advantage in second-chance points.
 
Bellarmine continues their four-game road swing Thursday at Jacksonville. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET.
 
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