Box Score
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Notre Dame fell to Bellarmine, 76-50, in day two of the University of Southern Indiana's Thanksgiving Classic on Sunday.

Bellarmine (3-1) got a combined 40 points from Rachel Goodin and Rachel Greenwell in a game that saw the Knights open and then nurse a large early lead.

As they did in an eventual 96-64 loss to Southern Indiana on Saturday, Notre Dame (1-6) struggled at the outset, ceding an 8-0 lead to the Knights over the first two minutes of play.  BU's Rachel Greenwell started the game off by sinking back-to-back 3-pointers, scoring the game's first six points.

When Danielle Ledrich sank a trey at the 14:59 mark, the bucket was just NDC's second of the game.  But that basket sent the Falcons on a 10-2 run, and by the 10:57-mark Notre Dame had whittled the Knights' lead to three points (15-12).

With Greenwell leading the way, Bellarmine re-established a significant lead over the next six minutes of play.  By the five-minute mark, the Knights found themselves up, 27-18.  BU shooters were dialed in throughout most of the opening half; the Knights shot 50 percent (14-of-28) from the floor over the first 20 minutes.  BU knocked down six threes in 13 attempts, and by halftime, the Falcons were doubled up, 42-21, on the scoreboard.  The Knights built that advantage on the strength of a 25-9 run over the final nine minutes of the first.

Bellarmine ran its lead to 29 over the first four minutes of the second stanza.  A rash of turnovers fed the growing Knight lead.  Notre Dame finished the game with 23 turnovers.

Twenty-four points is as close as the Falcons would come the rest of the way.  In one frustrating stretch for the Falcons, NDC went over five minutes without a field goal.

Betsy Goodin and Rachel Greenwell paced the Knights on the day -- each scored 20 points on a combined 15-of-23 shooting performance.  Over the 40-minute contest, BU shot 47.2 percent (25-of-53) from the field.

Danielle Ledrich and Molly Ritz led the Falcons in scoring, each registering a season-high 12 points.  Ledrich hit three jumpers from beyond the 3-point arc.  She was 3-of-6 on threes and the balance of the team went a combined 1-of-16 from 3-point land. Ritz scored eight of her points at the free-throw line, where she was 8-of-10 on the afternoon.  Ritz added a game-high eight rebounds. 

As a team the Falcons shot 30.2 percent (16-of-53) from the floor.

Over the two games in Evansville, Ind., NDC was outscored, 98-46, in the first half. 

Notre Dame will continue what is a busy stretch on the 2012-13 schedule when the Falcons visit Lock Haven (Pa.) on Wednesday (5 p.m. tipoff).  NDC is in the midst of a run that has the team playing seven games in 14 days.  With Sunday's loss to Bellarmine, the Falcons are now 1-4 in that stretch.