PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY ALLIE ELKINS, SPORTS EDITOR Despite getting off to an early start in the first quarter, the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team fell to George Washington Wednesday night, 69-48 in The Charles E. Smith Center. This is the Bonnies’ second loss to GW in conference play this season. GW’s only two…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR In a 13-point comeback, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team beat UMass 79-73 in a pivotal conference matchup Wednesday night in the Reilly Center. The Bonnies (14-8, 5-5 A-10) started the game with a 7-0 run over the Minutemen (14-8, 5-5 A-10) before being outscored…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY ALLIE ELKINS, SPORTS EDITOR The struggle is real for the women’s basketball team and things aren’t looking up for the rest of the season. If I had to describe this team in one word, I’d use the word “lacking.” This team lacks depth, height and the ability to move the…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS WRITER The St. Bonaventure University men’s and women’s track teams opened their indoor seasons at the RIT Invitational in Rochester, New York, last Friday. Freshman Brendan Chapple won the mile in his Bonnies debut for the men’s team. Chapple’s time of 4:23.90 ranks third in school history. …
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY NATHAN DONNELLY, SPORTS WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams defeated Little Three rival Canisius at the Reilly Center this past Saturday. Honored before the meet were the seniors of both teams, with eight senior men and six senior women. Receiving recognition on the men’s side…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY ALLIE ELKINS, SPORTS EDITOR St. Bonaventure continued its losing streak in conference with a 65-40 loss at home to St. Joseph’s University. This marks Bonaventure’s seventh loss in a row in conference play. The Bonnies are now 4-14 overall, and 1-6 in conference. St. Bonaventure currently sits second to last…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY ANDREW HALE, MANAGING EDITOR The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams host their final home meet Saturday against Little Three rival Canisius. Saturday’s Senior Day clash against the Golden Griffins will be the two team’s second meeting of the season. In their last meeting, the Bonnies defeated…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS WRITER The St. Bonaventure University men’s and women’s track teams will commence their indoor seasons at the RIT Indoor Invitational in Rochester, New York, this Friday. The event marks the first of six indoor invitationals the teams will participate in throughout the winter. Junior Clay Peets anticipates…
BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR On a sunny afternoon, the Reilly Center had a storm full of threes as the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team defeated Miami (OH) 90-60 on Saturday. Unlike the last game, the Bonnies came out the gate on a 7-3 run started by a redshirt senior guard Daryl Banks III 3-pointer…
BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR On Thanksgiving Eve, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team defeated 65-61 to Bucknell Wednesday night in the Reilly Center. The game started out slow with both teams shooting a combined shooting 1-15 from the field at the under-16 media timeout. The Bonnies saw their first point of the night with…
BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team fell 77-60 to Auburn in the Legend Classic Championship game Friday night in the Barclays Center. Brooklyn native and redshirt junior forward Chad Venning got the Bonnies on the board early, scoring the team’s first four points. The Bonnies saw shades of their opening-round…
Photo: Justin Cleaver BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR A 1994 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, Jess Williams has become a staple of the Wolf Pack, a nickname given to the school’s student section at its men’s basketball home games. Williams throws obscure hats to fans sitting in the endzone section of the Reilly Center, hoping…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR With only ten rostered players to begin the season, the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team boasted the smallest roster of any Atlantic 10 Conference team. Since then, the roster has only gotten smaller. Four of the team’s ten players have carried injury designations into games this…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s cross country teams finished their 2023 seasons last Friday at the Northeast Regionals in the Bronx. Eleven Bonnies qualified for the event. Junior Clay Peets continued to break records, running the Van Cortland Park 10k course in 31:07.3, the best…
BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team defeated Oklahoma State 66-64 in a back and forth affair in the opening-round of the Legends Classic. Oklahoma State went on a 10-2 run to begin the game, but the Bonnies responded with a 17-9 run of their own, evening the score at 19.…
Photo: Kameron Melendez BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ahead of the 2023-24 season, St. Bonaventure men’s basketball head coach Mark Schmidt said he expects his team to compete for a conference championship and make the NCAA Tournament. Just two games into the season, Bonaventure’s March Madness aspirations suffered a hefty blow with a home loss to…
BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team hosts UAlbany in the Reilly Center Thursday night. The Bonnies (1-1, 0-0 A-10) picked up their first victory of the season over Robert Morris on Saturday. “It was good to see us rewarded for doing some good things,” said Bonaventure head coach Jim Crowley.…
BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team secured its first victory of the season, soaring past Robert Morris 70-52 in Saturday’s home opener. With senior guards Nadechka Laccen and Tianna Johnson out, senior guard Dani Haskell made her season debut as he started alongside forwards Payton Fields Maddie Dziezgowski and Taylor…
BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team takes on Robert Morris in the first home game of the 2023-24 season Saturday afternoon. The Bonnies return home to the Reilly Center, after losing 75-51 to Little Three rival Niagara in the season opener Wednesday. Senior guards Nadechka Laccen and Tianna Johnson both…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure University men’s and women’s cross country teams head to Bronx on Friday, to compete in the Northeast Regionals at Van Cortlandt Park. Hosted by Columbia University, this meet is the last of the Bonnies’ 2023 season. The men’s team is coming off a…