Buffalo (Men)
Bulls Sweep Bearcats
1/18/2010 12:00:00 AM | Swimming and Diving
BINGHAMTON, NY – The University at Buffalo men's and women's swimming and diving team picked up another road win with a clean sweep of Binghamton this afternoon, as the women's team defeated the Bearcats 134-105, while the men's team won by a score of 137-103. The women's team moves to 5-2 (2-2 MAC), with the men's team holding a record of 4-1 (1-1 MAC).
On the men's side, the 400 medley relay of Zach
Ruske, Josh
Meints, Cory
Zorsch andMatt
Hogan took first place with a time of 3:30.00. Distance
specialist Connor
Vander Zalmwon the 1,000 freestyle (9:49.60), as well as the
500 freestyle (4:46.62). Vander Zalm touched out the Bearcats
competition in the 500 freestyle by a hundreth of a second to take
the win. Other first-place finishes came from Meints in the 200 IM
(1:58.58), Zorsch in the 200 butterfly (1:58.75), Jared
Heine in the 100 freestyle (47.66) and Matt
Schwippert in the 200 backstroke (1:53.39).The
women's team opened the meet with a first-place finish in the
400 medley relay as Jessica
Ballard, Brynn
Marecki, Sam
Eckert andJessie
Koltz touched out Binghamton by less than a tenth of a
second to finish in a time of 3:57.74, setting the precedence for
the remainder of the meet. Alisa
Koopman won the first individual event on the
women's side, picking up first-place points in the 1,000
freestyle (10:50.33). Jordan
Deren was a double winner, taking the 200 freestyle
(1:55.89) as well as the 500 freestyle (5:08.90). Koltz and
freshmanCaroline
Simmons tied in the 50 freestyle event, both finishing in
a time of 24.22. Freshman Dani
Adank also picked up a win for the Bulls, winning the 200
butterfly in a time of 2:08.92.
The Buffalo divers also had a successful afternoon, as Meili Carpenterswept both the one-meter and three-meter events, scoring 286.12 on the one-meter board and 301.12 on the three-meter board. TeammateUrsula Jeske took second in both events, earning 219.30 points in the one-meter event and 195.60 in the three-meter event. For the men,Colin Patrican took first in the one-meter event with a score of 278.02, while teammate Kenny Rhoades finished first in the three-meter event with a score of 288.15.
"I was pleased with how we swam. I saw a lot of good things today, especially with travelling and just coming off the Niagara meet," said head coach Andy Bashor. "We raced well, but now we have to focus on next weekend. We have a big weekend coming up and we need to prepare for that."
Both teams will be back in action this weekend, with the women's team traveling to Akron for a conference meet against the Zips on Friday, January 22 at 5:00 pm. The men's team will host Miami in a 1:00 pm meet on Saturday, January 23 at Alumni Arena Natatorium.
