Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: LUCAS PANNOZZO AND ANDREW RUSS, STAFF WRITERS The St. Bonaventure cross country team’s season wrapped up this past week at the northeast regionals in Hopkinton, New Hampshire The team posted top 10 overall finishes in every race leading up to the Atlantic 10 Championship. Their best finish came at the…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: LUCAS PANNOZZO AND ANDREW RUSS, STAFF WRITERS Three St. Bonaventure runners prepare for the biggest race of the year, the NCAA Northeast Regional in Hopkinton, New Hampshire on Nov. 15th. Sophomore William McCarthy joins Juniors Aiden Scattergood and Casey Malloy to compete. McCarthy said he looks forward to his first…
Photo: Atlantic 10 Conference BY: ANDREW RUSS AND ROGER WEBSTER, STAFF WRITERS On Oct. 1, Juniors Aiden Scattergood and Mia Winters received Atlantic 10 cross-country performers of the week. Scattergood finished in the top 10 in the 8k at the Lock Haven Invitational while Winters had a top-20 finish in the 6k. Scattergood led the…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: DAVID PREMYSLOVSKY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s cross county teams compiled fifth and seventh place finishes at the University of Rochester Yellowjacket Invitational today. In the men’s first 8k event of the season, junior Aiden Scattergood finished first overall out of 261 runners with a time of…
Photo: Ryan Addeo BY: GAVIN WATSON, STAFF WRITER AND WILL NUNN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER For St. Bonaventure University’s cross-country team success comes from the utilization of technology in training, and it all starts with the Garmin GPS watch. The watch, which every runner wears during practice, documents their performance and vitals with an app called V.O2.…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY GAVIN WATSON, CONTRIBUTING WRITER “Our kids are pretty bright. I’m not afraid to say that,” said Bob Macfarlane, head coach of St. Bonaventure’s track and cross country teams since 2010. Macfarlane’s time as a high school track coach and social studies teacher in the Bradford Area School District has impacted…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s cross country teams finished their 2023 seasons last Friday at the Northeast Regionals in the Bronx. Eleven Bonnies qualified for the event. Junior Clay Peets continued to break records, running the Van Cortland Park 10k course in 31:07.3, the best…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure University men’s and women’s cross country teams head to Bronx on Friday, to compete in the Northeast Regionals at Van Cortlandt Park. Hosted by Columbia University, this meet is the last of the Bonnies’ 2023 season. The men’s team is coming off a…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR The St. Bonaventure cross country team’s regular season is coming to a close with Saturday’s Atlantic 10 Championships. Standout junior runner Clay Peets said he has one goal in mind: To improve on his record-breaking times from earlier this season while taking down as many opposing…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR Clay Peets has made his mark on St. Bonaventure University’s cross-country and track programs. As a freshman, Peets set program records in outdoor track in the 3000-meter and 5000-meter dashes. He established the 5000-meter record at that year’s Atlantic 10 Outdoor Championships. During the 2021-22 season,…
BY ANDREW HALE, STAFF WRITER The St. Bonaventure Men’s and Women’s cross country teams competed at the Atlantic 10 Championship in Mechanicville, Virginia last Saturday. The men finished 15th out of 15 teams and the women placed 14th out of 15 teams. Head coach Bob McFarlane was glad to see his senior runners finish their…
BY ANDREW HALE, STAFF WRITER After a month and a half since the season began, the St. Bonaventure Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams look to finish their season off strong at the Atlantic 10 Championship on Saturday, Oct. 29. Throughout the regular season, the men have had top-five placements in three of their four…
BY DAN GEYER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Last weekend, the St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in their second meet of the year in the Harry F. Anderson Invitational hosted by Roberts Wesleyan College on Sept. 24. The women’s team finished third out of fifteen teams, finishing behind Roberts Wesleyan by eight points and…
BY DAN GEYER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure University men’s and women’s cross country teams hosted their first event of the season, the Little Three Championship, Sept. 3 at the Marra Athletics Complex. Both teams finished second. The men placed ahead of Niagara, but fell to Canisius by 19 points. The women also placed ahead…
By Tommy Valentine, Staff Writer Nearly three months ago, the men’s cross-country team posted one of their best collective performances at the Atlantic 10 Championship in roughly a decade. Now, head coach Bob MacFarlane and his rising group of runners are making headlines yet again. This time, it’s the track teams turn. In just the…
Macfarlane and Lonzi assemble best team in six years As snow begins to fall and students are forced to take their workouts to the Richter Center, it means the fall sports season is all but over. The soccer team is packing up cleats while the golf teams are storing their clubs away for the…
Will Delaney continues to make his mark as a runner for the men’s cross country team. Prior to this week’s meet, Delaney held the fastest 5K time in St. Bonaventure history. This past weekend, Delaney set his personal record and moved up in the record books to become the second fastest runner in the 8K…
By Mikael DeSanto Sports Assignment Editor The cross country careers of five St. Bonaventure seniors are coming to an end. The men’s and women’s cross country team will see Ben Collins, for the men, and Rachel Konieczny, Alexis Young, Allison Field and Courtney Brinsky for the women, graduate after this season and the upcoming track…
By Kiley O’Donnell Staff Writer Hailey Gattuso, a junior captain on the St. Bonaventure women’s cross country team, led the Bonnies at last weekend’s Atlantic-10 Championship in Richmond, Virginia, running her fastest time of the season, finishing the 5k at 19:33.5. Although some girls were unable to compete in the A10 Championship due to injury,…
By Kiley O’Donnell Staff Writer The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s cross country teams travel to Richmond, Virginia, this weekend to participate in the Atlantic 10 Championships. Senior men’s captain Ben Collins talked about his past A10 Championships and how he can take his experience from his previous years and apply it to Saturday’s race.…