Photo: Frankie Debari BY: QUINN BURGESS, STAFF WRITER On Nov. 2, the St. Bonaventure men’s club baseball team beat the University of Rochester 5-2 to win the New York Championship after an enticing and anticipating season. This team had early success after winning the first four games of the season, only to face reigning champion…
Photo: Frankie Debari BY: KYLE MAIER, SPORTS EDITOR With over six pitchers reportedly throwing over 90 miles per hour this fall, the St. Bonaventure University baseball team has a versatile pitching attack led by 2025 Major League Baseball draft hopeful Michael Salina. Salina, a junior right-handed pitcher in his second season with the Bonnies, clocked…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The National Junior College Athletic Association, also known as JUCO, has become more popular amongst students looking to grow and mature in their sports. Juco allows athletes to develop on the field and in the classroom. St. Bonaventure baseball head coach Jason Rathbun is familiar with…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY NATHAN DONNELLY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure baseball team has put together a 12-18 season thus far, good for 10th in the Atlantic 10, ahead of Davidson and UMass. In head coach Jason Rathbun’s second year at the helm, the Bonnies have more overall wins this year than they had…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMBARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER After a weekend full of schedule craziness, Luke Roggenburk came in relief and dazzled with nine strikeouts as St. Bonaventure Baseball defeated VCU Sunday 11-6 to win the rubber match 2-1. This marked the first Atlantic 10 series win for the Brown and White since 2019.…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMBARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER St. Bonaventure baseball wins third in a row after win at Penn State. Entering Tuesday, the St. Bonaventure University’s baseball team looked to continue its recent success against Penn State University, a Power Five school. The Panthers (11-7) overcame a five-run deficit in the seventh, but…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMBARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER On Friday, St. Bonaventure traveled to Mount St. Mary’s for a four-game weekend series. Chance Moore, a redshirt junior, toed the rubber for the Bonnies in Game One. Moore went four innings, allowing three earned runs and striking out three. Redshirt senior right fielder Adam Rankie…
BY COLIN BISH, STAFF WRITER Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) rules on “unsportsmanlike acts” continue to show that many rulemakers remain out of touch with the evolving game of baseball. On Feb. 25, with his team down 8-4 to Nebraska, Grand Canyon senior utility player Tyler Wilson smashed a…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMBARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The Bonnies traveled to Middle Tennessee Friday afternoon for a three-game series against the Blue Raiders. Redshirt junior Chance Moore started on the mound for Bonaventure in Game 1. The Bonnies went down early after junior shortstop Clay Badylak and sophomore secondbaseman Cale Vinson hit sac…
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…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure men’s baseball team dropped the rubber game against The Citadel Bulldogs this past Sunday at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park, losing 8-4 after allowing a five-run seventh inning. In the 1st, the Bonnies bats continued to produce a day after scoring 22…
Photo: @BonniesBaseball/Twitter BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR This offseason, second-year head coach Jason Rathbun made major changes to St. Bonaventure University’s baseball program, adding 21 newcomers to the roster. Before his time at Bonaventure, Rathbun led Division III Herkimer Community College to a 556-180 record, making the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association World Series eight…
BY TOM SEIPP, ASSOCIATE EDITOR In the newly painted St. Bonaventure baseball head coach’s office hangs an old white t-shirt. The shirt has four school logos – St. Bonaventure, the University of Miami, Florida Atlantic and NC State – surrounding the words 2004 NCAA Regional. That was the last – and only – time the…
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 For the first time in 680 days, the St. Bonaventure Baseball (0-5) team took the Fred Handler Park field, facing off with the La Salle Explorers (10-7) in a Saturday doubleheader. However, the Bonnies faced overall struggles in the two games, dropping contests 6-3 and 4-1 to the Explorers.…
By John Pullano, Associate Editor Senior pitcher Donovan Moffat has three goals for the 2021 St. Bonaventure University men’s baseball season opener: Have no active cases of COVID-19 among his teammates, have the full roster traveling to the game and to win. In March, Moffat’s goals could become a reality thanks to some creative scheduling…
By Tom Seipp, Sports Editor The 9/11 Memorial in New York City is like no other. Nearly 3,000 names of the victims who were killed on Sept. 11, 2001 are engraved at the site, as exhibits fill up the emotional memorial. From New York Mets comebacks to George Bush’s emotional first pitch in the World…
By Tom Seipp, Sports Editor The Bonnies don’t play in western New York until April 1, but the baseball team is making the trip to Emmittsburg, Maryland, to take on Mount St. Mary’s this weekend to kick off its 2020 season. It has been three seasons since the Bonnies last qualified for the Atlantic 10…
By Mikael DeSanto Sports Assignment Editor St. Bonaventure University will begin fielding a club baseball team in the spring, according to Rob DeFazio, the director for the Center for Activities, Recreation and Leadership, found in the Richter Center on campus. DeFazio said the idea for the team is not one that originated this year, but…