OLEAN, N.Y. – Host St. Bonaventure (8-3) used a 26-9 early second-half run to pull away from Binghamton men's basketball (7-5) 90-64 Friday night at Reilly Center.

Binghamton hung with their Atlantic-10 foe for the first 25 minutes before the Bonnies, No. 73 in the latest NCAA Net Rankings, hit their stride. Bona was picked to finish third in the A-10 Preseason Poll.

The Bearcats were even at 41-41 after senior guard Tymu Chenery opened the second half with two quick buckets in the first minute. But despite being outshot and outrebounded by the Bearcats at that point, Bona embarked on the big run that spanned 10 minutes. The Bonnies shot 55 percent and converted 10 three-pointers in the game to BU's three.

Chenery led BU with 14 points and graduate guard Dan Petcash added 10 points. Graduate point guard Symir Torrence contributed nine points, nine assists and six boards.

"They just wore us down," head coach Levell Sanders said. "They were big and it took a lot of energy for us to double their big guy and then they hit their threes. But we had too many turnovers and many of them led to threes on the other end. We were solid for a half but we need two halves."

The Bearcats outshot St. Bona in the first half, were within six the whole way and trailed 41-37 at intermission. Torrence tallied seven points, five boards and six assists (no turnovers) and the lead see-sawed seven times before a 13-7 mini Bona run gave them the lead in the closing five minutes. Petcash and Chenery sparked the offense with eight points apiece.  

Binghamton has an eight-day break for Christmas before hosting Marywood on Dec. 30 at the Events Center.