By Mike Hogan, Managing Editor Growing up, Kacie Filian would kick soccer balls into a regulation-sized net on the side of her home outside of Chicago, Illinois, dreaming of moments where she would be the hero. After willing the Bonnies to a 2-1 victory over Merrimack Sunday, where she scored two second-half goals, one being…
Photo courtesy of GoBonnies The St. Bonaventure golf team has championship-sized hopes at the start of the 2019 season. After finishing in 7th out of 11 teams in the Atlantic 10 Championship last season, the Bonnies hoped to begin their season on the right foot. Junior Danny Gianniny, one of the leaders from last year’s…
Photo by The Bona Venture’s Sydney Best The St. Bonaventure slogan, “Fill the hill,” was in full effect on Friday as several families and students lined the hill beside Marra Athletic Field on the St. Bonaventure campus as the St. Bonaventure rugby team took on Navy. Both St. Bonaventure and Navy were…
Softball players believe they did enough, but deserved more The Bonnies finished their 2019 campaign with a 9-36 record. The team’s record showed that the Bonnies struggled, and while that is true, the team was much closer to the goal than record speaks to. In his 20th season, head softball coach Mike Threehouse said it…
ESPN+ giving students hands-on, real-life learning opportunities This past fall, St. Bonaventure fans near and far were introduced to a new and improved viewing experience. Bonnies fans could now catch any sport from soccer, basketball, lacrosse, baseball and softball on ESPN+. Games could be streamed on iPhones, tablets, laptops and computers. However, fans were not…
In its third season, the St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s track program saw encouraging results. While no meets were won, records, personal and program, were set in high quantity. This past weekend at the Atlantic 10 tournament in Amherst, Massachusetts, the women’s track team set six records. Some program, some personal. Sydney Beeman, a junior,…
Stumbling into a house party on my first night of freshman year, I met Kiley O’Donnell, former editor in chief of The Bona Venture. “Write for the BV!” she said. I showed up to the interest meeting a few days later and signed up for a men’s soccer recap. Over 50 stories and thousands of…
Women’s soccer opens its arms to Undercoffer family Nearly six years ago, St. Bonaventure University’s women’s soccer coach Steve Brdarski picked up a copy of USA Today and attempted a crossword puzzle on a team bus. After becoming uninterested, Brdarski started to read the paper and stumbled upon a heart-hitting article. Brdarski read an article…
Gianniny helps team to best A10 finish in Swanson’s career As the sun began to set last Sunday night, it also set on another spring season for the St. Bonaventure men’s golf team. The men finished up their 2019 spring golf season at Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Florida at the 2019 Atlantic 10 Conference…
From iPhones, to computers and just about anything else, technology has taken a firm grip on every aspect of our lives – for the better and the worse. But after reading reports that the MLB will test out robotic umpiring at the minor league level at some point this season, I was equal parts confused…
Enjoying success as both a starter and reliever No letters, no offers. Donovan Moffat, a 2016 graduate of McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, only had plans to attend St. Bonaventure University as a student. Baseball wasn’t clearly in the cards when he arrived to campus two years ago. Until the hopeful Moffat received an…
MacFarlane sees improvement as runners adopt a winning mindset In only its third season, the St. Bonaventure track program has taken large strides on both the men’s and women’s side. Both the men’s and women’s teams set a number of personal records and, in some cases, shattering program records. For Bob MacFarlane, head coach of…
With confetti falling onto the court at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tony Bennett and the Virginia Cavaliers had finally climbed the hill of college basketball immortality. A little more than a year after being the only No. 1 seed to ever lose to a No. 16 seed, Virginia made an all-time turnaround. Bennett,…
Mentor and former student of the game go head-to-head As the lights flicked on at the Tom and Michelle Marra Athletics Complex Tuesday night, Randy Mearns, head coach of the St. Bonaventure men’s lacrosse team, stood on the opposite sideline of Canisius. The place he had spent the entirety of his professional career until now.…
Davidson, Easterday and others encouraged by newcomers With only one win in 28 games, the past season and a half has been tough sledding for the St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse team. But even with the struggles come bright spots. For coach Chelsea Rosiek, the rest of the 2019 season revolves around competitiveness, building for the…
Shyly sitting in Reilly Center room five, I signed up to do my first story for The Bona Venture newspaper during the welcome week interest meeting in August of 2017. My assignment: to write about the men’s soccer team, a sport that I knew very little about at the time. But as a scared-to-death freshman…
Growing pains aplenty as Mearns and team stay positive during their inaugural season For the St. Bonaventure University men’s lacrosse team, the end of their inaugural season is near. With four games remaining on the regular season schedule, the Bonnies have a lot to look back on and grow from, all the while having plenty…
Success becoming an expectation for men’s rugby team as season kicks off After the fall 15-on-15 season ended, the St. Bonaventure men’s rugby team finished the season ranked No. 12 in Division I-A. As the team started its seven-on-seven spring season this weekend, momentum continued for a program that is seemingly on the rise. The…
At the NFL Owners meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Kim Pegula told reporters that they are in the early stages of studying the future of New Era Field. Since the early 2000s, NFL teams have been in a frenzy to use the public’s money to construct the newest coliseum. The Buffalo Bills stadium, commonly referred to…
Men’s rugby senior making program proud in hopes of award “In high school, I was an under 18 all-American, here at Bonaventure, I was an under 20 all-American and this season, I was the most valuable player of the Rugby East, which is our conference,” said Eamonn Matthews, a senior member of St. Bonaventure University’s…