MEN'S BASKETBALL (22-1, 13-1 Empire 8): Feb. 20 at Nazareth; Feb. 22 vs. Rochester Institute of Technology

The #8 Bombers won two more games last week raising their season total to 22 – tying the school record set by the 1981-82 team. Ithaca beat Stevens Institute of Technology 81-68 Tuesday and topped St. John Fisher 77-67 Saturday.  Against Stevens, sophomore guard Chris Cruz (West Genesee/Camillus) tallied 23 points; he hit four three-pointers in the game, and grabbed a career-high eight rebounds. Senior point guard Sean Burton (Notre Dame/Yorkville) scored 20 points and tallied five assists. Fellow senior guard Brendan Rogers (Liverpool/Liverpool) contributed a career-high nine assists. In the St. John Fisher win, senior swingman Sean Leahy (West Genesee/Syracuse) recorded his sixth career double-double, scoring 12 points and pulling down a career-best 16 rebounds. Burton led Ithaca with 21 points and nine rebounds and added three steals. He went nine-for-10 from the free throw line to raise his career total to 357 free throws (he's the fifth Bomber to reach 350) and his three steals give him 152, sixth on the program's all-time list. Cruz scored 19 points and Rogers added 17 points and six rebounds. Junior center Tom Brown (Bayport-Blue Point/Bayport) pulled down six rebounds. The Bombers pulled away from a two-point game by scoring the last eight points of the first half. Burton connected on a three-pointer and Leahy added a lay-up and free throw combination and a jump shot to beat the halftime buzzer for a 10-point Ithaca lead.