By Pat Tintle Sport Editor Remember those annoying growing pains everyone got as a kid? That is exactly what the baseball team is experiencing right now. Coach Larry Sudbrook has stated that his team is in the first year a rebuilding phase in the 2015 season, and the addition of 19 ballplayers has caused some…
By. Pat Tintle Sports Editor As the end of the spring semester approaches, another year of St. Bonaventure athletics has nearly come to a close. Bonnies have competed on the court, field and ice over the past eight months, and it’s about that time the Bonaventure community takes a step back and reflects on a…
By Garret Pasono Contributing Writer Optimism and progression are important things to have in sports. Junior third baseman Thad Johnson of the baseball team has that, and then some. “The main focus for every year is what it has always been; make the playoffs,” Johnson said. “I want to help turn this program around.” Throughout…
By Pat Tintle Sports Editor The baseball team kept true to its up-and-down season as it split a doubleheader against Bucknell in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Tuesday. The Bonnies took game one by a score of 6-3. Junior pitcher Steve Klimek earned the win by going five innings and giving up three runs. Klimek improved to a…
By Pat Tintle Sports Editor With great pitching comes a great team. After a 2-2 start to the 2015 season, the baseball team has put together a seven-game winning streak. Now with a 9-2 record (.818 winning percentage), the Bonnies continued their early season surge last weekend as they swept a two-game series at Mount St.…
By. Pat Tintle Sports Editor Coming off a losing 2014 campaign, the baseball team began the 2015 season with a winning record. In their first three games of the season, the Bonnies took two of three games from Maine in the Russ Matt Invitational in Winter Haven, Florida. The Bonnies started the series with a…
By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor With snow drifts and skin-numbing wind gusts, the first sport that comes to mind probably is not the one that is debuting this weekend. All the same, the baseball team will play its first game today at 2:30 p.m. Luckily for the Bonnies, it won’t be played at home.…
By Pat Tintle Assistant Sports Editor The 2014 MLB playoffs are taking form, and what better way to celebrate than to speculate? Let’s start with the American League. As of today, with just a little more than ten games to play, the Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals and Oakland…
By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor After dropping Wednesday’s game to Binghamton University, the baseball team is now winless in its last five games. That streak includes a three-game series against Atlantic 10 opponent Fordham University in which the Bonnies were outscored by 20 runs. The Bonnies current streak of losses came after what appeared…
By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor After the Bonnies split their weekend series at home against Saint Louis University – the top team in the Atlantic 10 – the baseball team went on to split their doubleheader against Niagara University Wednesday. The Bonnies dropped their first game against Saint Louis in a 3-2 contest that…
By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor The baseball team played two of its three scheduled games against Atlantic 10 opponent St. Joseph’s this past weekend, dropping both games. The Bonnies lost by a collective 25 runs over the span of the two games. Coach Larry Sudbrook said Saint Joe’s recent success, as well as the Bonnies’…
By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor The baseball team suffered a sweep in its three-game series against Atlantic 10 opponent Virginia Commonwealth University this past weekend. Perhaps the most glaring loss of the series was Saturday’s lopsided 17-5 defeat. According to Coach Larry Sudbrook, the score was a result of the Bonnies’ lack of scoring…
By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor The St. Bonaventure baseball team swept Ohio University this past weekend in its series. The Bonnies, who have been struggling to score so far this season, outscored Ohio by 31 runs over three games. Coming off their wins against Ohio, the Bonnies struggled in their home-opener Tuesday, losing a…
By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor The St. Bonaventure baseball team left for Ohio University yesterday to kick off a four-game series against the Bobcats beginning today and ending Sunday. According to Coach Larry Sudbrook, the Bonnies have been working on “small ball” during the past week in preparation for this weekend. Progress has been…
By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor Welcomed by a 90-degree falloff, the Bona’s baseball team returned home after an upsetting 1-8 campaign in Port Charlotte, Fl. for the Snowbird Classic, according to head coach Larry Sudbrook. “We went 3-6 down there last year playing a predominantly senior team, so we knew it was going to…
By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor According to Head Coach Larry Sudbrook, last season’s Bonnies baseball campaign was a disappointing one after finishing with a 20-28 overall record and 9-15 in their conference. The team, which boasted a strong senior core featuring two Atlantic 10 all-star players, failed to meet expectations. While the Bonnies lost…
By Emma Zaremba Features Assignment Editor In the Bona Bubble, we support our family through it all. On Sunday, Nov. 3, at noon, a group of students in marketing professor Michael Russell’s Event and Sponsorship Marketing class will host a memorial dodgeball tournament in honor of Bonnies’ baseball pitcher Andrew Revello. Revello graduated in…
By Harrison Leone Sports Assignment Editor Heroes are born in the frosty nights of October. From the morning dew of spring training, six months of baseball boils down to a mere seven games. Six months of Chris Davis’ coming out party, the Yasiel Puig show in Los Angeles and Max Scherzer’s total domination of the…
By Alicia Maldonado Contributing writer How would you feel if you learned a huge amount of sexism thrived among the sports culture here at St. Bonaventure? St. Bonaventure University students and alumni take pride in the NCAA Division 1 sports teams on campus. These teams include women’s softball, men’s baseball, women and men’s soccer,…
By Harrison Leone Sports Assignment Editor While baseball is often decried as too boring for our stimulus-crazed public, America’s pastime has nevertheless been a constant source of intrigue all summer long. Fans have been treated to historic individual performances from the sport’s top athletes. In the American League, Detroit third baseman Miguel Cabrera is fresh…