LOUISVILLE, Ky. – On Saturday afternoon and for the second time this week, Bellarmine avenged a loss from early January. The Knights closed the game on a 7-0 run to down visiting Queens 78-75.
 
For Bellarmine (9-13, 4-6 ASUN), it was another dose of sweet following the sourness of four losses in five games entering this week. Queens, behind 24 three-pointers, had blown out Bellarmine 98-76 on January 3 in Charlotte. Similarly, Bellarmine took down West Georgia on Wednesday after suffering a loss in Carrollton to open conference play on New Year's Day.
 
Queens (12-11, 7-3 ASUN) dropped their third straight after starting ASUN play with seven straight victories.
 
Jack Karasinski led all scorers with 18 points of 6-for-10 shooting while Kenyon Goodin added 16 and Tyler Doyle scored 13 while dishing out four assists.
 
Bellarmine led 39-38 at the break after a tightly contested first half in which the Knights led by no more than six and the Royals by no more than two. Karasinski and Goodin each netted double digits in the first half, the former sinking a three-pointer seconds before the buzzer to give the Knights the lead and himself 12 points.
 
Carson Schwieger (11 points) and Avantae Parker (10 points) combined to go 8 for 8 from the floor in the opening stanza with Schwieger connecting on all three of his three-point attempts.
 
Queens quickly asserted themselves out of the locker room, using an 11-2 run early in the second half that included threes by Chris Ashby on back-to-back possessions to create a 53-46 lead.
 
Bellarmine battled right back as a Jacob Wassler three closed the gap to one at 57-56 to cap a 10-4 Knights run. Moments later, Donovan Hunter brought Bellarmine back to within one again at 62-61 with a three of his own. Following another three by Ashby and a layup by the Knights' Tyler Doyle, Goodin would give the Knights a 66-65 lead with a three after an offensive rebound by Brain Waddell. A three-point play by Waddell then put Bellarmine up 69-65.
 
Undeterred, Queens took a 73-69 lead right back with an 8-0 run that included Schwieger's fifth three of the game.
 
From that point, however, it was all Knights. Yoav Berman hit a layup with 3:54 remaining for the last points Queens would score on the afternoon as they finished the game hitting one of their last nine field goal attempts.
 
Bellarmine themselves only had one field goal in the final seven minutes, a bucket by Doyle with 3:04 remaining. Still, the Knights took advantage of the Royals' poor shooting and three fouls in the final four minutes, converting 5 of 6 free throws. Doyle's freebies with 1:34 remaining tied the game at 75 and then gave the Knights a 76-75 lead. Sam Donald would add two more in the final seconds to bring the game to its 78-75 final score.
 
Schwieger finished with 17, as did Parker. Berman tallied 14 while Ashby, who torched the Knights for 11 threes in the teams' first meeting, hit 4 of 11 from beyond the arc for 12 points.

The win for Bellarmine snapped a three-game skid against Queens.
 
Bellarmine's homestand continues Thursday, February 5 when they host Stetson at 7 p.m. ET.
 
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