ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – With one of the most successful senior classes in St. Bonaventure history hitting the home stretch of the regular season, career milestones have become the norm for the Bonnies.

So have victories.

Saturday night at the Reilly Center, it was Osun Osunniyi carving out a spot in the program record books by surpassing 1,000 career points as the Bonnies completed a season sweep of Duquesne, 81-55.

Bona's fifth consecutive victory moves the Bonnies to 17-7 on the season and 9-4 in Atlantic 10 action.

Fresh off an authoritative performance vs. the Dukes in the first meeting of the season where he scored 21 points, adding 17 rebounds and 13 boards on the offensive glass, Osunniyi produced another impressive effort in front of the home crowd.

The senior center fueled Bona's breakaway, scoring 13 first half points and finishing with 18 on a perfect 7-of-7 night from the floor. He wrapped the night with a double-double, pulling down 10 rebounds to lead all players.

Jalen Adaway paced all scorers with 21 points while Dominick Welch finished with 16 points and six boards.

The Bonnies started much as they did in the first meeting between the two squads last month in Pittsburgh – in dominant fashion. St. Bonaventure began the game on an 11-2 run, but Duquesne would bounce back for a 15-10 score.

Duquesne's momentum would be short-lived, however, as the Bonnies responded with an 11-0 sprint as the crowd roared to life.

SBU finished the first half in complete control, heading to the locker room with a 39-22 advantage.

The Bonnies kept their foot on the gas by opening the second half on a 24-9 break, stretching their lead to 30 on a Welch trey with 10 minutes left.

The second half saw the Bonnies sink 59 percent of their attempts (16-27) as they finished at a 52 percent clip for the night while holding Duquesne (6-19, 1-12) to just 35 percent shooting.

SBU won the battle of the boards, 42-25, and owned a 48-22 margin in the paint.

Leon Ayers was the only Dukes player in double-figure scoring, finishing with 12 points.

GAME NOTES

•  Osunniyi becomes the 47th player in program history to reach 1,000 career points and is now the fourth active member of the Bonnies roster to join the 1,000-point club along with teammates Kyle Lofton, Jalen Adaway and Dominick Welch.
•  Osunniyi is now just the sixth player in school history to reach 1,000 points with at least 800 career rebounds joining Andrew Nicholson, '12 (2,103 points, 887 rebounds), Bob Lanier, '70 (2,067 & 1,180), Essie Hollis, '77 (1,798 & 939), Glenn Price, '74 (1,579 & 922) and George Carter, '67 (1,322 & 849).  
•  St. Bonaventure has won 13 of the last 14 games against Duquesne but Saturday's game was a rare blowout: nine of the previous 13 contests between the longtime A-10 rivals had been decided by six or fewer points.
• Freshman Justin Ndjock-Tadjore scored his first career points, four. Joryam Saizonou, Oluwasegun Durosinmi and Pedro Rossi all saw minutes off the bench.
• Kyle Lofton handed out six assists and totaled eight rebounds.
• Osunniyi also had two blocks and has multiple swats in all nine career games vs. Duquesne.

UP NEXT
St. Bonaventure completes its four-game homestand by hosting Rhode Island Tuesday night at 7 p.m. inside the Reilly Center. National TV coverage is set for CBS Sports Network.

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