PHOTO COURTESY OF DUQUESNE ATHLETICS BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team plays at home for the first time since Feb. 9, looking to snap its two-year-long, five-game losing streak against Duquesne Saturday afternoon. The Bonnies (18-9, A-10 6-8) and Dukes (11-15, A-10 6-7) first played each other on Jan. 18. In that…
BY: CARSON HAYEK, SPORTS EDITOR Photo Courtesy of gobonnies.com The Bonnies season has been unique, to say the least. The program had its best start since the 1969-70 season, but may not even eclipse the 20-win mark with four games remaining. As the Atlantic 10 Tournament approaches, the Bonnies must improve on these three things…
BY: AIDAN SHINNERS, STAFF WRITER Photo Courtesy of gobonnies.com The St. Bonaventure University softball team heads into the 2025 season with the goal of returning to competitiveness after a 4-39 (1-18 A-10) 2024 campaign. Returning to the Bonnies lineup, sophomore outfielder Sydney DeGram who led the team with a .313 batting average in her first…
BY: WILL NUNN, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Photo Courtesy of gobonnies.com The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team traveled to Amherst, Massachusetts Saturday and defeated the UMass Minutemen 73-59. The win snaps a three-game losing streak for the Bonnies (18-9, 6-8 A-10), and places them just 0.5 games back of the Minutemen (11-15, 6-7 A-10) in the…
BY: WILL NUNN, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Photo: @BonniesMBB / X After a heartbreaking loss at Rhode Island on Wednesday, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team looks to bounce back as they travel to Amherst, Massachusetts to face the UMass Minutemen Saturday. The Bonnies (17-9, 5-8 A-10) enter Saturday coming off three consecutive losses, being bested…
PHOTO: Joseph DeBell / The Bona Venture In each of the first 16 games, the Bonnies men’s basketball team scored more points in the paint than their opponent. Much of that success came from Bonaventure being more physical than many of their out-of-conference opponents. As of late, however, the dominance near the rim has been…
BY: SEAN WALLACE, STAFF WRITER Photo Courtesy of gobonnies.com Finishing with an overall record of 8-9 in 2024, the Bonnies look to bounce back this season and seek a return to the conference tournament after their last appearance in 2023. Six of their top nine scorers return in 2025, including senior attacker Fiona McGovern. Top…
BY: WILL NUNN, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR PHOTO: @BonniesWBB / X The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team fell 58-49 at the hands of the George Washington Revolutionaries Saturday, marking their ninth consecutive defeat. Despite the loss, the Bonnies rallied together with the local community for a greater cause: the annual pink game, which raised money and…
BY: SAMUEL CAROZZA, CONTRIBUTING WRITER With Donny George taking the head coaching job at Niagara University, the women’s soccer program at St. Bonaventure was left without a head coach until last month when Vice President and Intercollegiate Director of Athletics Bob Beretta announced that Melissa Sherwood would become the program’s 13th head coach. Most recently,…
Photo courtesy of Rhode Island Athletics BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF After leading for more than 36 minutes, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team fell 68-64 to Rhode Island on a game-winning shot with two seconds left. As it has all season, the injury bug continued to bite the Bonnies (17-9, 5-8 A-10) as second-leading scorer…
Following a win over Dayton on Jan. 28, St. Bonaventure men’s basketball head coach Mark Schmidt earned his 400th career win. After playing at Boston College from 1981-85, Schmidt was an assistant coach from 1989-2001 for numerous universities including St. Michaels, Penn State, Loyola (Md.) and Xavier. Schmidt was named head coach at Robert Morris…
The St. Bonaventure Baseball team kicks off their season on Valentine’s Day with a three-game road series vs Gardner-Webb University. Senior second baseman David Marshall Jr. said that this year’s team will be ready to compete with anyone. “We understood last year what we could do to get better,” Marshall said. “We got a lot…
Photo: @BonniesMBB / X BY: WILL NUNN, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team fell 77-53 in a meeting with Loyola Chicago Tuesday, slipping back below .500 in Atlantic 10 play. The 24-point loss is the largest margin of defeat of the season for the Bonnies (17-7, 5-6 A-10), who turned the ball…
Photo: Joseph DeBell BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team completed the season sweep over Fordham Saturday afternoon, defeating the Rams 74-72. The Bonnies (17-6, 5-5 A-10) and Melvin Council Jr. came out firing as the senior guard scored the game’s first five points. A three-pointer from Bonaventure redshirt sophomore Jonah Hinton…
Photo: Joseph Debell / The Bona Venture BY: CARSON HAYEK, SPORTS EDITOR Following a 14-1 start, which was the best start to a season for Bonaventure since the 1969-70 Final Four squad, there was extreme optimism about the Bonnies. So much so that the program received four votes in mid-December for the AP Top 25…
BY: JOSEPH DEBELL, OPINION EDITOR Photo courtesy @wojespn on Instagram Adrian Wojnarowski’s decision to leave a $7.3 million-a-year job at ESPN to become the general manager of St. Bonaventure’s men’s basketball team should serve as a reminder that loyalty can — and must — matter more than wealth and fame. At a time when NIL…
Photo: gobonnies.com BY: Will Nunn, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR As they near the midway point of the Atlantic 10 season, the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team sits in last place in the conference standings. Amidst a difficult season, there are a few bright spots that the team can look positively towards. Namely the play of their…
Photo: gobonnies.com BY: SEAN WALLACE, STAFF WRITER The Bonnies men’s lacrosse team looks to rebound from a frustrating 2024 season after finishing 0-5 in the Atlantic 10 with an overall record of 1-11. Entering their seventh Division I season, the Bonnies started as members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in 2019. They have a…
BY: Aidan Shinners, Contributing Writer On Jan. 25-26, the St. Bonaventure women’s rugby team was represented by five athletes at the Collegiate Rugby All-Stars Women’s 7’s National Cup in Atlanta, Georgia. Graduate students Makenna Ramsey and Kaylee Middaugh along with senior Ashlee Reid and sophomores Natalie Lamar and Mia Popp were selected to compete. They…
Photo: Joseph DeBell BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team avoided its sixth loss in seven games Tuesday night, handing Dayton its biggest defeat of the season 75-53. The Bonnies (16-6, 4-5 A-10) and Flyers (14-7, 4-4 A-10) played an even first seven minutes; however, a flurry of Bonaventure 3-pointers quickly gave…