PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR After his St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team got knocked out of the Atlantic-10 Tournament Saturday afternoon by Duquesne, head coach Mark Schmidt summarized the result rather simply. “We had open shots — we missed them. They had open shots — they made them,” Schmidt said. “That…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team hosts Saint Joseph’s Friday night, returning home for the first time in a week and a half. The Hawks (13-6, 3-3 A-10) enter Friday on a three-game win streak. Trending in the opposite direction, the Bonnies…
BY BROOKE JOHNPIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s soccer team (4-5-2 overall, 1-3 A-10) lossed to the University of Massachusetts (5-4-3 overall, 2-2 A-10) Wednesday afternoon, 5-2. The Bonnies are in 11th place and the Minutemen 8th for the Atlantic 10 standings. The game started with the Bonnies scoring in the 11th minute with…
By Jonny Walker, Sports Assignment Editor Just under five minutes into the second half of Saturday’s game against Bowling Green (2-2, 0-0), St. Bonaventure (2-2, 0-0) guard Daryl Banks III grabbed a defensive rebound, pushed the ball up the right sideline and pulled-up from three. Banks nailed the transition jumper with a hand in his…
By Jonny Walker, Sports Assignment Editor The St. Bonaventure University women’s basketball team earned its first win of the season Wednesday at MVP Arena, defeating Siena, 69-63. For the third time in as many games, the Bonnies faced a full-court press on most possessions. For the third time in as many games, the Bonnies didn’t…
By Kristie Schiefer News Assignment Editor At the beginning of the 2012-13 men’s basketball season, the Reilly Center housed a full student section. But since the start of the spring semester, support dwindled. During the Feb. 20 game against UMass, the Bonnies saw one of the worst student crowds in the Reilly, with only 75…
By Jimmy McCarthy Contributing Writer Seventy-five St. Bonaventure student-athletes displayed academic excellence during the fall 2012 semester. As a result, they earned a place on the Atlantic 10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll. Those freshmen to seniors within an A-10 sport retained a grade point average of 3.5 or better. “We’re extremely proud of the academic success…
By Kristie Schiefer News Assignment Editor The game operations team within the St. Bonaventure University Athletics Department collectively agreed to cut the pep band from Bonnies Basketball games, and not everyone’s happy about it. With NCAA Division I school pep bands rarely featuring less than 25 members, the St. Bonaventure pep band lacked in numbers…