Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY GAVIN WATSON, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team finished its 2023 campaign with a 3-2 loss against George Washington on Sunday. With the loss, the Bonnies were officially eliminated from the Atlantic 10 Conference playoffs. The Bonnies finished with an overall record of 3-8-6 and a record of…
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 JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Don’t crown this season’s St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team too soon. Last week, media and coaches picked the Bonnies third in the Atlantic 10 Conference’s annual Preseason Poll. Bonaventure was one of just four teams to earn a first-place vote. KenPom, a popular stat-based index that ranks…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR With a win over VCU this Saturday, the St. Bonaventure men’s soccer team (6-6-4 overall, 2-4-1 A-10) would clinch their first winning record since 2010, when the team finished 10-8-1. The Bonnies had a chance to put themselves into prime position for a playoff bid, however,…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR With two games remaining, the St. Bonaventure men’s soccer team (6-5-4 overall, 2-3-1 A-10) is positioned to make a late-season push into the Atlantic 10 Conference playoffs for the first time in six years. Eight teams will qualify for this season’s A-10 playoffs. The Bonnies, tied…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure University men’s golf team heads to North Carolina this weekend to compete in the ODU/Kilmarlic Invitational. The last of the Bonnies’ fall season, the invitational will be hosted by Old Dominion University and played at Kilmarlic Golf Club in Powells Point from Oct.…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ahead of last season, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team lost most of its players to the transfer portal. In the process, the Bonnies lost all five of their starters, a group that had once played the most minutes of any lineup in the nation. “The only…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR While the St. Bonaventure golf team lost to Siena, 283-276, on Oct. 10, graduate Lance Sininger shot 1-under 71, placing him tied for sixth overall and third for Bonaventure. “The goals for the season were for our team to continue to grow as a unit after…
Photo: GoBonnies BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF On the final night of last season’s Atlantic 10 Conference Championships, St. Bonaventure diver Davis Hutchinson competed for the 3-meter-dive title as his coaches and teammates cheered from below. But Hutchinson’s path to competing in those A-10 Championships stretched much further than his brief climbs up the 3-meter platform…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR Following a 3-10-3 record in 2022, the St. Bonaventure men’s soccer team looked to the transfer portal in an attempt to improve talent on both sides of the ball. Fast forward a year, and the Bonnies have added 12 new players to their roster, posting a…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR The St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team hasn’t made the Atlantic 10 Conference’s eight-team playoff since 2021. If this season’s playoffs started today, the Bonnies would be in. After their first loss in conference play this season to Duquesne, 2-0, on Sunday, the Bonnies (3-3-5 overall, 2-1-1…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY NATHAN DONNELLY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER After the St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished sixth and ninth, respectively, at last year’s Atlantic 10 Conference playoffs, the team returns to the pool Saturday. The Bonnies added 11 freshmen head coach Mike Smiechowski called capable of making noise in the…
BY BROOKE JOHNPIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER St. Bonaventure, N.Y.— The St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team faces Duquesne Sunday at the Marra Athletics Field Complex. The Bonnies (3-5-2 overall, 2-0-1 A-10) will face the Dukes (4-5-2 overall, 1-0-2 A-10) after coming home from a win against Fordham on Thursday. The victory over the Rams moves the Bonnies…
BY KYLE MAIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER LOCK HAVEN, PA – The St. Bonaventure University men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the Lock Haven Invitational today, with two Bonnies finishing in the top 10 of their respective races. Hosted by Lock Haven University, the invitational took place at the West Branch Country Club. Over 45…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR While St. Bonaventure has hired five new head coaches for its Division I sports programs since 2022, one thing has remained constant: Mike Threehouse as Bonnies softball head coach. Threehouse’s 27 year stint as head coach is the second-longest active streak behind only Michael Bates, head…
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…
Photo: GoBonnies BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF With the score tied 1-1 on St. Bonaventure University’s all-purpose field, junior Sydney Hayward stepped up from her center back spot and into opposing Niagara’s 18-yard box. She tracked her teammate’s free kick — a high, arching ball — and jumped over defenders to head it past Niagara’s goalkeeper. …
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR After 12 seasons under Steve Brdarski, a new head coach is on the scene for the St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team. In January, Bonaventure named Donny George its 11th head coach in program history. In two seasons on Niagara University’s coaching staff, George helped lead the…
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,…
The entrance to the Hickey Dining Hall, located within the Magnano Center David Scibilia/The BonaVenture BY: CONAN LYNCH, STAFF WRITER Brooke Piper, a freshman on the women’s lacrosse team at St. Bonaventure University, had a few hours after an evening practice to attend mandatory study-hall hours and eat dinner before returning to her dorm. She…