LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Jacksonville University men's basketball team (9-10, 3-6 ASUN) had a hard time finding a groove in its first-ever tilt with Bellarmine (10-5, 7-2) on Friday night, but managed to produce a late run that made things interesting in a loss, 71-56.

Trey Sides paced the scoring effort for the first time in his career. He scored 12 on 4-6 from long range to go with three rebounds. Cameron Boozer led the team in rebounding for the first in his young career. He pulled down seven boards and blocked two shots to go with four points. Dontarius James and Tyreese Davis each scored 10 points.

Jacksonville jumped ahead 5-0 quickly and prompted an early timeout from Bellarmine. The Knights stormed out of that timeout with a 14-0 run to put Jacksonville in a hole. Loseni Kamara broke up the run with a jumper from the elbow with 13:49 left in the half. Davis scored to make it 28-22, BU, with 5:21 to go in the half. Bellarmine locked down and closed the half on an 10-0 run to take a 38-22 lead into the break.

The Dolphins trailed by as many as 22 with 8:22 to play in the game but mounted a run, capped by Sides' fourth triple of the night to get within 11 with 3:36 to go. That was as close as JU came in this one. Bellarmine managed to keep JU at arms-length to rest of the way to secure the victory.

These two sides will run it back on Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m.