By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA On Saturday, the Rochester Americans blitzed the riding-high Utica Comets 6-0 on the road, their signature win for the first 30 days of the season. On Friday on home ice, that same Amerks team opened a 2-0 lead against the finding-their-way Binghamton Devils and managed to lose. Brett Seney scored an extra-attacker goal with 45.6 seconds left, then Ben … [Read more...] about Power (play)-less Amerks squander lead, lose
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Opening Night Takeaways: Bonnies lose game to Ohio, Osunniyi to injury
By CHUCKIE MAGGIO For the second straight year, the St. Bonaventure men's basketball team is trying to regroup while hoping an injury to a star post player isn't as serious as it looked. Here are some takeaways from the 65-53 defeat: Player of the Game: Jason Preston, Ohio. He was only the third-leading scorer on his team, but the point guard Preston had full control of … [Read more...] about Opening Night Takeaways: Bonnies lose game to Ohio, Osunniyi to injury
Johnson expected to make immediate contribution with Bonnies
By CHUCKIE MAGGIO At a program where newcomers already tend to be unheralded mystery men, Matt Johnson was the latest to fall into an even less newsworthy category. Johnson, who spent his first two seasons of collegiate basketball at junior colleges, committed to Mark Schmidt and St. Bonaventure on March 2. College basketball reporter Adam Zagoria broke the news about an hour … [Read more...] about Johnson expected to make immediate contribution with Bonnies
RIT falls to Holy Cross in a shootout
By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA The RIT Tigers and Holy Cross made Atlantic Hockey history on Saturday night. Not by scoring an absurd number of goals or by piling up a record number of shots on goal. They participated in the first shootout in the league's history, with Holy Cross leaving the Gene Polisseni Center with a 4-3 victory. Crusaders winger Jake Pappalardo, a transfer from the … [Read more...] about RIT falls to Holy Cross in a shootout
All-Minnesota defense pairing leads Amerks
By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA After an uninspiring performance on Wednesday night against a team they simply can't beat, the Rochester Americans rebounded to defeat the not-so-good Binghamton Devils. The 4-3 loss to the Providence Bruins — the ninth time in the past 10 meetings that Providence has defeated the Amerks — provided some of the motivation in Friday's 4-2 victory at Blue Cross … [Read more...] about All-Minnesota defense pairing leads Amerks