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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland State reached double-digit league wins for the seventh time in eight years and moved into second place in the Horizon League with a 67-59 win over UIC on Sunday afternoon on Senior Day.

The Vikings improved to 16-11 overall and 10-3 in the league, one game behind first place Valparaiso (11-2) who won at Milwaukee today. Green Bay is one-half game behind CSU at 9-3.

UIC fell to 7-20 overall and 3-9 in the league.

Trey Lewis scored 18 points and had five rebounds to pace the Vikings, while Anton Grady had nine points, 13 rebounds and a career-high tying six blocked shots.

CSU's two seniors also stood out.

Charlie Lee totaled nine points and eight assists, while Marlin Mason had 11 points and three blocked shots.

The duo also hooked up for a highlight reel alley-oop late in the game with Lee finding Mason cutting on the baseline and Mason throwing down a one-handed dunk.

Ahman Fells and Paris Burns scored 17 points each for UIC.

The Vikings hit their first seven three-pointers of the game, the final one by Zollo that gave CSU a 23-18 lead 12 minutes into the game. However, a 12-3 UIC spurt gave the Flames a 30-26 lead with 4:04 to play and the Flames would hold a four point lead (34-30) at halftime.

CSU opened the second half on a 23-10 run to open up a double-digit lead (53-43) on a Lewis spinning layup in the paint.

The lead reached as many as 13 points (60-47) on o Mason dunk, but nine straight points from the Flames cut the CSU lead to four points (60-56) with 2:22 left.

However, Lee hit two free throws and Lee found Mason for the alley-oop dunk to push the lead back to eight points (64-56) with 1:33 to play and the Vikings would win to improve to 12-2 at home this year, including 7-0 in the league.

CSU finished 26-of-47 (.553) from the field and hit 8-of-15 (.533) from three-point. UIC was just 18-of-64 (.281) from the floor, but did hold a 41-30 advantage on the boards.

The Vikings finished with 11 blocked shots

The Vikings are back in action on Tuesday (Feb. 17) when CSU closes the nonconference schedule with a 7:00 p.m. game at Western Carolina. The game will be broadcast live on SportsTime Ohio.