Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY NATHAN DONNELLY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER When the St. Bonaventure University softball team formed in 1988, Molly Quattrone took the helm as the program’s first-ever head coach. Following Quattrone’s three seasons, Cindy Ryan-Nannen coached SBU with limited success. The Brown and White failed to record a conference win under Ryan-Nannen during her…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR St. Bonaventure University vowed to strengthen ties with The Seneca Nation in February when the institution formed a committee tasked further to rekindle its relationship with the neighboring Seneca people. Alumni Klint Nephew of The Seneca Nation, a former SBU player and coach, serves as…
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.…
Graphic: Courtesy of Allie Elkins By Kyle Maier, Sports Assignment Editor Two wins are all the St. Bonaventure’s men’s lacrosse team has to show after almost two seasons in the Atlantic 10 conference. Nothing short of disappointing. In May of 2022, the Bonnies left the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the newly formed A-10 Conference. …
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics By Gavin Watson, Contributing Writer The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s track teams traveled to Virginia for the Colonial Relays, the first outdoor event of the season. The women’s team began the day in the 5000-meter race, with sophomore Jenna Gregory placing 22nd, beating her personal record with a time of…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics By Allie Elkins, Sports Editor The St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse team suffered their first home loss last Saturday against Saint Joseph’s. The Bonnies (overall 7-7, A-10 3-3) fell to the Hawks 16-7. The Hawks got off to a 4-0 start and led the entire game. Bonaventure didn’t record a goal until…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics By Nathan Donnelly, Contributing Writer The St. Bonaventure University’s softball team surrendered three losses to Saint Louis University this past weekend, losing the games by a combined margin of 17 runs. The Bonnies (2-23, 1-11 A-10) fell 2-1 in the first game of their three-game series with the Billikens (21-13, 9-3…
Seniors Michael Seitz, Joseph Gombatto, Thomas Reilly, Eric Bernhardt, Jimmy McKeown, Jace Frazier and Jack Gombatto tour Times Square prior to the team’s NIT matchup at Madison Square Garden Tucker Reilly/ The Bona Venture BY: TUCKER REILLY, ADVISORY EDITOR St. Bonaventure University’s basketball program is no stranger to the national stage. In addition to games in the…
As the regular season winds down, the St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team is making a push toward the Atlantic 10 Tournament. Every remaining game is important, and they are making every effort to get positive results in the win column. The good news for the lady Bonnies is that they are peaking at the right…
The St. Bonaventure University men’s rugby team defeated the Notre Dame College Falcons Saturday, 32-12. The Bonnies entered this game as No. 13 in the nation, with Notre Dame just one spot behind at No. 14, according to D1ARugby.com. The Bonnies came out strong from the start, as Charles Schwenk put the Bonnies on the…
An 84th minute penalty kick spoiled St. Bonaventure’s women’s soccer team’s Atlantic 10 opener at Fordham, proving to be too much to overcome the Bonnies lost 1-0. The loss dropped the Bonnies to 4-5 overall and 0-1 in the A10. Fordham improved to 2-6-2 overall and 1-0 in the A10 as of printing. The decisive…
“They just have to play,” said Mark Schmidt, the head coach of St. Bonaventure’s men’s basketball team four days ahead of his team’s first Atlantic 10 Tournament game. “We play in big arenas, so that’s not going to be a factor at all. They’re no longer freshmen. They have played 30 plus games.…
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assignment Editor BROOKLYN- Its been almost four years since the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team won the A10 Tournament back in 2012. Tonight they will face Wardell Stephen Curry’s former team in the Davidson Wildcats at 9 p.m. in the quarterfinal round of the A10 Tournament. The Bonnies faced off against…
Members of the Bonaventure community will swarm the Barclays Center in Brooklyn this weekend, cheering on the men’s basketball team in the Atlantic 10 Tournament. For some, intensive planning allowed for attendance. For others, fulfilling their dream of participating in the festivities might take another year. The Bonnies are set to play their first tournament…
By Nicholas Konotopskyj News Editor Big time players make big time shots in big time games. Wednesday night, senior guard Marcus Posley did just that as he led the Bonnies to a huge 98-90 victory over the first place Saint Joseph’s Hawks at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. Posley turned in one of…
Bonnies start season 3-1 in Savannah series By Dominic LoVallo Assistant Sports Editor St.Bonaventure’s baseball team officially started its season last weekend when it traveled to Savannah, Georgia, to face the Savannah State University Tigers. The team is off to a winning start, going 3-1 in its opening series of the year against the Tigers.…
Player: Katie Healy Height: 6-1 Year: Senior Hometown: Lancaster, N.Y. Position: Forward “I think together, as a team, we want to be better than last year for sure, but we also want to make it far. We want to impress people—we want to prove people wrong. A lot of people have doubts about us and…
By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor It’s a big weekend for the women’s soccer team, as it begins conference play against Atlantic 10 opponents Davidson and Richmond. The Bonnies enter the weekend with a 4-5-1 record. The squad has had the opportunity to catch a bit of a breather, as their last game was…
By Pat Tintle Assistant Sports Editor The men’s soccer team’s winless season continued last weekend when the Bonnies fell to Canisius and Bowling Green, by scores of 3-2 and 1-0, respectively. Despite an 0-5 record, Coach Mel Mahler saw some good aspects to take away in both loses. “I was happy how we played,”…