By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Editor The St. Bonaventure Women’s Soccer team will begin their season on Friday August 19 as they take on the Binghamton Bearcats to open up the 2016-2017 season. The Bonnies are coming off a 6-11-2 season last year and finishing 12th in the Atlantic 10 conference. Not being heavily favored in…
By Mikael DeSanto Sports Assignment Editor On May 26, Tim Kenney, the athletic director of St. Bonaventure University, hired Jesse Fleming as the new head coach of the women’s basketball team. The position became open when former head coach of the Bonnies, Jim Crowley left to become the head coach at Providence. Fleming, who graduated…
By: Jonathan Sawyer Sports Editor After 16 seasons as St. Bonaventure’s women’s head basketball coach, Jim Crowley has decided to leave the women’s program for a job with the Providence Friars, according to GoBonnies.com. Crowley’s record was 258-231 as the coach of the Bonnies. Crowley won A10 Coach of the Year three times in 2009,…
The 2016 NFL draft is almost two weeks away, and it is looking like a big mystery of who goes where. Especially now that teams are trading for picks, such as the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles trading for the first and seconds picks. The Rams traded with the Titans because the Rams desperately…
By Nick Konotopskyj Sports Editor The St. Bonaventure softball team has found the winning touch in the last week and a half of play. The Bonnies have won six of their last nine games. Much of the team’s success this season starts and ends with senior leaders, shortstop Emily McDonough and second baseman Kelli Rohan.…
The men’s tennis season came to a close last Thursday after losing to the Duquesne University Dukes, 4-1, at the Atlantic 10 Championships. The seventh seeded Dukes advanced in the tournament to play the eventual champions George Washington. The Bonnies’ season ended with an overall record of 5-11, and a conference record of 1-4. The…
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assignment Editor The St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse team suffered two losses this past weekend, outscored 43-11. The first loss came Friday night to the University of Massachusetts Minutewomen, 23-2, and the second on Sunday afternoon to the Saint Joseph’s University Hawks, 20-9. The Bonnies have been in a slump as of…
By Dominic LoVallo Assitant Sports Editor St. Bonaventure baseball is making a push towards the A10 playoffs, and the team is exceeding expectations around the league. The Bonnies finished last after its campaign last year, but now are 4-5 in conference play and three of those losses came against one of the top teams in…
By Mikael DeSanto Staff Writer Matt Abendroth, from Ottawa Hills, Ohio, shot one-over-par (71 strokes) in the first round, nine-over-par (79 strokes) in the second round and finished with a five-over-par in the third round. He finished with 225 strokes, or fifteen-over-par for the tournament, giving him the second best score on the team behind…
It’s almost playoff time for the National Basketball Association (NBA). The NBA has been dominated by three teams this year: the San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. These three teams have each single-handedly dominated the NBA. Each team has had a few rough patches but still seemed to come out with…
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assignment Writer The St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse team suffered its first loss last Saturday to the Robert Morris University Colonials, 17-10. Robert Morris jumped out to an early 8-1 lead, but the Bonnies answered with two straight goals to end the first half to make it 9-3 Colonials. In the second…
By Nick Konotopskyj Sports Editor BROOKLYN- The night cap of the Atlantic 10 quarterfinals was an all-time classic Friday night. The St. Bonaventure Bonnies were sitting right on the bubble coming into the game against Davidson and now they will certainly sweat it out on Sunday when the committee announces the tournament field. Davidson pulled…
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assignment Editor BROOKLYN- Its been almost four years since the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team won the A10 Tournament back in 2012. Tonight they will face Wardell Stephen Curry’s former team in the Davidson Wildcats at 9 p.m. in the quarterfinal round of the A10 Tournament. The Bonnies faced off against…
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assignment Editor he St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team had an early exit in its first game of the A10 Tournament this past weekend in Richmond. The Bonnies received the fourth seed, which allowed them to get the double bye in the tournament. They faced off against the Virginia Commonwealth University…
By. Nick Konotopskyj Sports Editor All of the pressure was on the St. Bonaventure Bonnies. The Saint Louis Billikens had nothing to play for except spoiler and trying to burst the Bonnies tournament bubble. However, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team closed out the regular season in, style picking up a road win over the…
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assignment Editor RICHMOND – The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team’s run in the A10 Tournament was cut short Friday afternoon, as they were defeated by the fifth seed Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Rams, 59-50. The Bonnies got off to a fast start scoring the first six points of the game, taking…
By Nicholas Konotopskyj News Editor Big time players make big time shots in big time games. Wednesday night, senior guard Marcus Posley did just that as he led the Bonnies to a huge 98-90 victory over the first place Saint Joseph’s Hawks at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. Posley turned in one of…
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assignment Editor The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team earned themselves a double bye in the Atlantic 10 Tournament in Richmond by finishing the regular season play being one of the top four teams in the conference. The Bonnies will take on the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams Friday afternoon at 2 p.m.…
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assignment Editor The St. Bonaventure Bonnies held off the University of Massachusetts Minutement, 85-83, to improve their season to 20-8, 12-4 in conference play. This is the Bonnies first 20-win season in the regular season since 1977 and first 12-win season in conference play ever. With four seconds left in the…
Men’s basketball wins second in a row By Nick Konotopskyj Sports Editor The last time the St. Bonaventure Bonnies were in the mix for an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament, the Buffalo Bills were a playoff team. This is uncharted waters for Coach Mark Schmidt, who is in his ninth season at Bonaventure. The…
