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Post by wgt on May 9, 2005 19:32:16 GMT -5
Soph Pellegrini's performance last weekend strengthened his candidacy for All-America honors. Pellegrini leads St. Bonaventure and ranks among the Atlantic 10 leaders in batting (.375), home runs (11), RBI (52) and runs scored (44). He also ranks among the top pitchers in the conference with a 2.03 ERA and seven saves. He has a .649 Slg% & a .441 OB%. At 6’1” & 240 Brian (HS star Middle Linebacker) can sure pick em up & put em down with a team leading 13 stolen bases on 16 attempts (almost double any team member). Another soph Joe Rizzo is also a remarkable player batting .329 with a .636 Slg% & .396 OB%. Bona has many impressive athletes who work enormously hard & garner less attention than deserved. Go Bonas!
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Post by FriendsofAN44 on May 10, 2005 4:54:00 GMT -5
Bill, you should have the seen the shot he hit to left-center on a hanging curve ball on Saturday. Left-center at McGraw-Jennings is about 370 feet, and this ball cleared the fence by a good 80-100 feet.
If it had been Yankee Stadium, it would have been over the wall, and over Monument Park, possibly reaching the left-field bleachers where only some 40 homeruns have ever been hit in the history of Yankee Stadium !
The Bonnies certainly put on a power display this weekend, and seem to be peaking at the right time. Still, they need to win 3 at Temple this Friday and Saturday, and get some help from a couple of other teams to make the playoffs.
If they do, look out, as this team could certainly make a run again in the playoffs as they did last year !
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Felca
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Post by Felca on May 10, 2005 10:00:46 GMT -5
With this kind of talent, what went wrong this year?
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Post by FriendsofAN44 on May 10, 2005 11:26:01 GMT -5
A 50-game schedule and only 12 home games !!
Would have been 15 home games, but the league scheduled the Dayton series for the middle of March at McGraw-Jennings - BRILLIANT ! They had to move the series to Dayton to get it in, (despite the best efforts of Larry and his snowblower from home - he tried to clear the field) and we lost 3 more home games there.
The schedule was definitely not in our favor this year.
Every year, each team has 5 home series, and 3 road series; then the next year it switches to 3 home, 5 road. This was our year for 3 and 5, and we lost the Dayton series, so that made it 6 series on the road, and just 2 at home.
Hopefully next year with Charlotte and St. Louis coming in, they can even up the schedule and make it 4 home and 4 road series every year for every team.
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Post by wgt on May 10, 2005 21:40:22 GMT -5
Another Superb Bona Athlete:
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. - St. Bonaventure senior Mario Arce has been named the 2005 Northeast Region winner of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship.
Named for the late tennis star, the award goes to a player who has "exhibited outstanding sportsmanship and leadership as well as scholastic, extracurricular and tennis achievements."
The eight regional winners will now be considered for the national Arthur Ashe Award, which will be announced May 25.
The first St. Bonaventure player to win the Arthur Ashe Award, Arce enjoyed a record-breaking senior season. He established school records for singles wins in a season with 31 and in a career with 93. The Tarija, Bolivia, native finished the 2004-05 season 31-6 in singles and 15-4 in doubles.
Following the season, Arce was named the 2005 Atlantic 10 Player of the Year, the second time in his career he garnered that honor. He was a three-time All-Conference choice and was the A-10 Rookie of the Year in 2002.
A two-year co-captain, Arce led the Bonnies to the Atlantic 10 title and an NCAA Championship berth in 2003 and to third place conference finishes in both 2004 and 2005.
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