VESTAL, N.Y. – Asianae Johnson scored a game-high 20 points and Tori Harris added 15 points, powering St. Bonaventure (4-1) to a 63-53 win over Binghamton (2-2) in a non-conference women's basketball game on Saturday afternoon at Dr. Bai Lee Court. The game marked the Bearcats' fourth straight home contest to open up the 2021-22 season.

Johnson, who recently scored her 1,000th career point, went 7-for-14 from the field and canned all six of her free throw attempts. She also dished out a game-high five assists. Harris, meanwhile, was 6-of-13 from the field and tied for the game high with three steals.

For the Bearcats, junior forward Birna Benonysdottir finished with a team-high 14 points. Junior guard Denai Bowman scored 11 points – shooting a perfect 5-for-5 from the field in the process – and added four rebounds, four assists, a steal and a block.

St. Bonaventure led throughout the game. It jumped out to a 26-13 lead with 8:04 left in the second period.

The Bearcats, however, went on an 18-3 run to close out the first half. Benonysdottir had nine of her points during that run.

In the second half, the Bonnies' lead fluctuated between two and eight points. The final time the Bearcats got to within two points came when Bowman drove in for a layup with 3:05 left in regulation. At that time, the score was 52-50.

Over the ensuing 1:04, St. Bonaventure got the separation it needed with a 6-0 run. Harris had four points and Johnson had the other two points during that spurt.

"Basketball is a game of runs and I thought we did a great job of getting back into the game," head coach Bethann Shapiro Ord said. "But we needed to string together more stops. We couldn't just keep trading baskets with St. Bonaventure. We got to do a better job on the rebounding end and that is something we have been working on."

The Bonnies outscored the Bearcats 49-24 in the paint and finished with a 34-28 advantage in rebounding. They also sank 11 of their 14 free throw attempts (79 percent).

Junior forward Clare Traeger had seven points and a team-high nine rebounds. She entered the game ranked second in the America East with 8.3 rebounds per game.

Junior guard Hayley Moore added eight points.

Binghamton hosts Mansfield on Tuesday at 7 p.m. It will mark the final game of the Bearcats' five-game home stand.