Bulls Dominate to Capture Second Win of the Season

Saturday, January 18

Buffalo, NY

11:00 AM

218

Ohio

Bulls Dominate to Capture Second Win of the Season

1/18/2020 1:24:00 PM | Swimming and Diving

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo women's swimming and diving team improved to 2-2 on the season and 2-1 in Mid-American Conference competition. UB defeated the visiting Ohio Bobcats (0-5, 0-3 MAC) by a score of 218-81.

To start the day off, the team of Nicole Roitenberg, Katie Pollock, Andrea Ernst and Jillian Lawton finished in first in a time of 3:48.96 in the 400 medley relay. Finishing in second was Madison McDonough, Anna Vitolins, Clarice Fisher and Katelyn Burns in 3:52.50.

Brittney Beetcher won the 1,000 freestyle with an exhilarating finish as she came back to win by .06 seconds. Her time of 10:09.07 is now the seventh on UB's all-time list.

Antonia Naccarella and Jenna Krull finished the 200 freestyle with a one-two punch to show UB's dominance early. Naccarella finished in a season-best time of 1:53.26 as Krull also finished with a season-best time of 1:54.74.

UB finished 1-2-3 in the 100 fly as the trio of Jillian Lawton (57.54), Andrea Ernst (57.89) and Sydnie Sovinsky (57.96) claimed the podium.

Katelyn Burns finished the day with two individual wins, a relay win and helped a relay to a second place finish. Burns finished the 50 freestyle in 23.64 and the 100 freestyle in 51.71. In the 200 freestyle relay, she helped the team to a second place finish with a time of 1:35.39.

In the diving well, the Bulls swept the podium with a complimentary fourth place finish in the 1-meter dive. Victoria Franz claimed first place with a score of 308.55, Patricia Arceri (270.75) finished in second, as Isobel Holcomb (253.80) claimed third and Journi Northorp (252.75) topped it off with a fourth place finish. In the 3-meter, the Victoria Franz (293.18) claimed first, Patricia Arceri (288.98) finished second as Journi Northorp (285.15) rounded out the top-three with Isobel Holcomb (259.88) finishing in fourth. Both of Arceri's scores are NCAA Diving Zone qualifying scores.

OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

Andrea Ernst (57.74) and Madison McDonough (57.84) finished second and third in the 100 back
Katie Pollock (1:04.46) and Grace Baumer (1:06.38) finished first and second in the 100 breast
Lena Li finished the 1,000 freestyle in 10:45.11, good for third place

NEXT UP
The Bulls are back in action next Saturday as they will travel to Toledo, Ohio to take on the Toledo Rockets. The meet will start at 11 a.m. and will air on ESPN3.

For full meet results, CLICK HERE.