Bowling Green
Women's Swimmers Split with Bowling Green, Michigan State; Men Fall to Spartans
1/19/2013 12:00:00 AM | Swimming and Diving
BOWLING GREEN, OH – The University at Buffalo men's and women's swimming and diving teams returned to action Saturday afternoon as the Bulls battled Bowling Green and Michigan State. The UB women split their meets, downing the host Falcons, 149-145, while falling to the Big 10 Spartans, 158-142. UB's men fell to Michigan State 161-139.
Women's senior Brittney Kuras won all three of her individual races for the Bulls. Kuras started the day with a win in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:50.95. Later she claimed the 100-yard freestyle in 50.93. Finally, she added a victory in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:05.84.
Jessica Powers swept the distance freestyle races for the UB women. She posted a season-best time of 10:14.69 to win the 1,000-yard freestyle, lowering her previous top mark by three seconds. The Bulls took the top three spots in the event as Paula Stoddard (10:27.72) and Emma Miller (10:27.98) also set season-best times to finish second and third, respectively. Powers also took the 500-yard freestyle in 4:59.60.
Mallory Morrell won the women's 50-yard freestyle in 23.61 while Ava Giachino won the women's three-meter diving competition with 274.50 points.
For the UB men, senior diver Shawn Hoffman swept both springboard competitions. He won the one-meter event with 304.95 points for his six dives. Later, he took the three-meter event with a total of 305.55 points.
Colin McAllister set a season best in winning the men's 1,000-yard freestyle. The sophomore shaved 10 seconds from his previous best as he won the race in 9:35.85.
Mike Dugan won the men's 50-yard freestyle in 20.96. Dugan also anchored both of UB's winning relay squads. He combined with Matt Schwippert, Josh Meints and Cory Zorsch to claim the 200-yard medley relay in 1:31.91. Dugan anchored the 200-yard freestyle relay to a victory in 1:23.15 as he joined Zorsch, Christian Muller and Ryan Smrekar on the foursome.
"I felt we had a good meet today. I wish we were a little better and be able to finish our races better, but that happens when we travel," said head coach Andy Bashor. "The divers came through for us today and kept us in the meet."
The UB women are now 5-1 overall and 2-0 in MAC meets. The loss to the Spartans was their first dual meet loss since November 5, 2011 and spanned 11 meets, which also includes today's win over Bowling Green. The UB men are 2-2 overall in dual competition.
The squads travel to Oxford, OH for tomorrow's meet at Miami (OH) at 2:00 pm.
"We will need to be better than we were today," said Bashor. "I believe we will be up for the challenge."
