Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMBARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER On Friday, St. Bonaventure traveled to Mount St. Mary’s for a four-game weekend series. Chance Moore, a redshirt junior, toed the rubber for the Bonnies in Game One. Moore went four innings, allowing three earned runs and striking out three. Redshirt senior right fielder Adam Rankie…
BY: ANDREW HALE, MANAGING EDITOR The No. 7 seeded St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team fell 70-60 to the No. 6 seeded Duquesne Dukes in the Atlantic 10 Semifinal game. The semifinal matchup was the third time the two teams played each other in three months. Bonnies sophomore forward Assa Essamvous drove to the lane, converting…
BY: ANDREW HALE, MANAGING EDITOR The No. 7 seeded St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team takes on the No. 6 seeded Duquesne Dukes in the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 Championships Saturday. This is the third matchup of the season between the two teams. Duquesne defeated Bonaventure in both games. At home in January, the Dukes…
BY COLIN BISH, STAFF WRITER Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) rules on “unsportsmanlike acts” continue to show that many rulemakers remain out of touch with the evolving game of baseball. On Feb. 25, with his team down 8-4 to Nebraska, Grand Canyon senior utility player Tyler Wilson smashed a…
ALEXANDER THOMAS: CONTRIBUTING WRITER Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The 2024 MLB season is one to be looking forward to. Players are more talented than ever, and new records are being set every year. One thing holding the MLB back is the new Nike Vapor jerseys manufactured by Fanatics. Players and fans have started to…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure University’s men’s lacrosse team won its first game of the season Tuesday after beating Canisius University 12-8. Senior midfielder Jackson Webster opened up scoring for the Golden Griffins (2-5) before the Bonnies (1-5) answered with four goals from four different players in…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMBARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The Bonnies traveled to Middle Tennessee Friday afternoon for a three-game series against the Blue Raiders. Redshirt junior Chance Moore started on the mound for Bonaventure in Game 1. The Bonnies went down early after junior shortstop Clay Badylak and sophomore secondbaseman Cale Vinson hit sac…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY ALLIE ELKINS, SPORTS EDITOR Having not won a game since Dec. 30, the St. Bonaventure University women’s basketball team capped off a rough season with a 62-51 loss on March 6 to Dayton in the Atlantic 10 Championships. This abrupt end to a 4-26 season served as a sad ending…
BY ANDREW HALE, MANAGING EDITOR The No. 7 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team takes on No. 2 Loyola Chicago in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Championships Thursday. In February, the Bonnies defeated the Ramblers 79-64 in Loyola Chicago’s first trip to the Reilly Center. Bonnies redshirt senior guard Daryl Banks III scored 26 off…
BY ANDREW HALE, MANAGING EDITOR The No. 7 St. Bonaventure Bonnies basketball team defeated the No. 10 La Salle Explorers in the second round of the Atlantic 10 Championships. In the first matchup between La Salle and Bonaventure in January, the Explorers won 72-59. La Salle had won the previous two meetings before Wednesday’s tournament…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY RYAN LOMBARDI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure baseball team looks to get back on track with a four-game series at Middle Tennessee this weekend. The Bonnies enter 3-7 on the year, coming off a series loss to Presbyterian. St. Bonaventure took Game 1 of the series, winning 2-0. Sophomore…
BY COLIN BISH, STAFF WRITER Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Many fans criticized and laughed at the supreme confidence of Spanish-Georgian fighter Ilia Topuria. They called him “delusional” and hoped reigning Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski would humble the brash, young challenger. Instead, Topuria proved everyone wrong, brutally knocking out Volkanovski in the second round and…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure men’s baseball team dropped the rubber game against The Citadel Bulldogs this past Sunday at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park, losing 8-4 after allowing a five-run seventh inning. In the 1st, the Bonnies bats continued to produce a day after scoring 22…
PHOTO: ST. BONAVENTURE ATHLETICS BY NATHAN DONNELLY, SPORTS WRITER Following an 12-35-1 record in 2023, the St. Bonaventure softball team looks ahead to 2024. The Bonnies will begin their season with a trip to Madeira Beach, Florida., against Bellarmine on Feb. 23. Sophomore second baseman Abby Farber said she is looking forward to traveling to…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR NEW YORK — Forward Assa Essamvous’ career-high 23 points lifted the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team over Fordham, 85-67, Wednesday night in Rose Hill Gymnasium. Essamvous, a 6-foot-6 sophomore, hit seven of the Bonnies’ (15-9, 6-6 A-10) 12 made 3-pointers. The Rams (10-14, 4-7 A-10), who…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR With an 85-67 rout of Fordham Wednesday night, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team got back to .500 in Atlantic 10 Conference play. But two-thirds of the way through their conference season, the Bonnies (15-9, 6-6 A-10) have only consistently proved one thing: their inconsistency. Wednesday’s…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY NATHAN DONNELLY, SPORTS WRITER The St. Bonaventure swimming and diving team is composed of six international students from five different countries on the men’s team, and six international students from six different countries on the women’s team. One thing they have in common is their shared experience having traveled across…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Following yet another invitational where they broke numerous records, the St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s track teams compete at the Atlantic 10 Indoor Championships next week. This signifies the approach of the outdoor season, which brings rule changes and environmental obstacles that St. Bonaventure athletes…
ANTHONY DASILVA, STAFF WRITER Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The MLB season is just around the corner, and after a disappointing 2023 season, many Mets fans aren’t pleased with how new General Manager David Stearns maneuvered his first offseason in Queens. Stearns played his first offseason in New York smart, considering this was a below-average…
LANDON WASHBURN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Photo Courtesy of Wikimeida Commons A dynasty is a team or individual that dominates their sport or league for an extended time. Since the Kansas City Chiefs traded up to the 10th overall pick in 2017 to take the gunslinger Patrick Mahomes out of Texas Tech, they have been associated with…