Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMBARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure baseball team looks to get back on track with a four-game series at Middle Tennessee this weekend. The Bonnies enter 3-7 on the year, coming off a series loss to Presbyterian. St. Bonaventure took Game 1 of the series, winning 2-0. Sophomore…
BY JONNY WALKER, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure University men’s soccer team lost, 3-0, at Saint Joseph’s University Saturday, officially eliminating the Bonnies from contention for an Atlantic 10 Tournament berth. The Hawks scored first. The Bonnies failed to register a goal, allowing two second half goals. “I thought we played well,” said Bonaventure…
BY DAN GEYER, STAFF WRITER The St. Bonaventure women’s soccer ended its 2022, last Thursday, falling to Atlantic 10 foe Duquesne, 2-0. The entire first half consisted of a possession battle between the Bonnies (3-8-6, 1-8-1 A-10) and the Dukes (6-5-3, 4-2-3 A-10) as both teams controlled with an occasional shot for each team. The…
BY DAN GEYER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team picked up its first conference win of the season, defeating the Richmond Spiders, 1-0 ,Sunday at the Marra Athletics Complex, picking up its first conference win of the season. The win was the Bonnies first since a 3-1 win over Eastern Michigan on Aug.…
BY JONNY WALKER, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure University men’s soccer team tied, 1-1, with University of Massachusetts Saturday at Rudd Field, earning its second point of the season. For Bonaventure head coach Kwame Oduro, the game was a tale of two halves. “In the first half, we were excellent — we were unbelievable,”…
BY ANDREW HALE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s tennis teams competed in their final tournament of the fall at the Bloomsburg-Invitational this past weekend. Both the men’s and women’s teams found success in Bloomsburg. The men went 7-2 in doubles and were victorious 12 times in singles competition. The women went 8-1…
BY WILL POLADIAN, SPORTS EDITOR Three faces from last year’s team are looking to be the new shining stars after the departure of Asianae Johnson and Tori Harris. Leading the charge for this year’s team are graduate guard Nikki Oppenheimer, senior forward I’yanna Lops and junior guard Tianna Johnson. “Those are the three main people…
Photo courtesy of Jandoli School of Communication. Concept art for the design of The Jandoli School of Communication. BY CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A fundraising campaign that touches a bit of everything for the St. Bonaventure community launched publicly Sept. 12. “It’s been 164 years and we just want to build on that legacy and propel…
BY WILL POLADIAN, SPORTS EDITOR The St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team falls by score of 1-0 against conference foe Fordham to kick off conference play last Thursday. The Bonnies (2-1-5, 0-1 A-10) and Rams (2-6-0, 1-0 A-10) had a stalemate going late into the first half. In the 43rd minute, senior midfielder Amber Achladis sent…
BY ERICA GUSTAFSON, OPINION EDITOR Baseball is most famously known as America’s National Pastime, even by those who are not necessarily baseball fans. Though we may like to think that baseball started here, it’s origins could be tied to other areas of the world. According to an updated information about who invented baseball on history.com,…
By Michael Seitz, Staff Writer The St. Bonaventure University baseball team travelled to Fordham University last weekend for a four-game series. The Rams took three out of four games in the series, but there were multiple positive takeaways from the Bonnies play this past weekend. Bonaventure won the first game of Friday’s double header by…
By Nathan Soloman, Sports Assignment Editor Sunday’s men’s lacrosse victory over the Canisius Golden Griffins was a bittersweet one for coach Randy Mearns and his squad. Not just that it was their first victory over the Golden Griffins in program history, but it was also Mearns’ first since leaving Canisius for St. Bonaventure. Mearns spent…
By Tom Seipp, Managing Editor Last season, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team had zero depth for insurance behind Osun Osunniyi at the center position. Now, they have plenty, as the team has just received their fourth commitment of the early offseason. Wednesday, the Bonaventure athletics department confirmed the commitment of Oluwasegun Durosinmi, who signed…
By Bryce Kelly, Staff Writer St. Bonaventure University basketball has a storied history. The men’s basketball team went to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament in 1970. The Bonnies that season led by future number one NBA draft pick Bob Lanier. The Bonnies won the NIT in 1977 and have experienced a revival under…
By Henry Trost, Contributing writer It would seem that most members of the St. Bonaventure University community have become acclimated to all of the necessary safety precautions enforced everywhere on campus. Student athlete’s schedules go from class to their afternoon practices as they would any other year. But the empty schedules for all of St.…
By Pat Tintle Sports Editor St. Bonaventure University has found its new Director of Athletics in Tim Kenney, the former executive associate athletic director for the University of Massachusetts. Kenney will start work at Bonaventure in mid-April. In his introductory news conference held in the St. Bonaventure Hall of Fame on March 19, Kenney, a graduate…
By Nate West News Assignment Editor Barbara Questa, senior associate director of athletics, will take over the duties of Athletic Director Steve Watson who will undergo elective, preventative heart surgery. Watson’s last day was Tuesday, and he is estimated to be out for six to seven weeks. However, Questa is not an interim athletic director.…
Skye Tulio Sports Assignment Editor Have you ever logged in to Twitter to check the score of a Bonnies men’s basketball game only to find such a page does not exist? Rest assured Bona Nation, the problem has been solved and then some. The latest creation out of the Sports Information Office, a St. Bonaventure…