Football
Eastern
Michigan 24, UB 20 UB was
poised for its second road win of the season at Eastern Michigan before
the Eagles turned the tables, scoring two fourth-quarter touchdowns
and holding on for a 24-20 MAC win.
The
Bulls broke open a 10-10 halftime tie with a pair of scoring drives
in the third quarter. Sophomore kicker Dallas Pelz drilled a 40-yard
field goalthe longest of his careerto cap a 12-play, 57-yard drive
on UB's first possession of the second half. After stopping the Eagles
on back-to-back possessions, the Bulls went ahead by 10 when quarterback
Joe Freedy threw a 44-yard touchdown to junior Maurice Bradford with
3:27 left in the third quarter.
However,
the Eagles got back into the game behind the inspired running of freshman
tailback C.R. Roberson and the arm of quarterback Kainoa Akina. Roberson
finished with a game-high 154 yards on 19 carries, while Akina completed
a 14-yard touchdown pass to Chris Archie on a third-and-seven play to
cut the Bulls' lead to 20-17.
Jerimie
Slick of the men's cross-country team
earned first-team All-Mid-American Conference honors with his
sixth-place finish at the MAC Championships in Ypsilanti, Mich.
Slick became the first UB men's runner to nab All-MAC First Team
honors with his 25:21.9 showing on the eight-kilometer course.
Becky
Ashare of the women's volleyball team recorded a team-high
12 kills at Bowling Green and added nine kills with no errors
in 24 attempts at Central Michigan. For the week, which included
UB's win over Binghamton, Ashare had 30 kills3.75 per gameand
a .368 hitting percentage. For the season, she leads the Bulls
with a .267 hitting percentage.
After a
UB drive to the EMU 47-year line stalled, Roberson scored on a 16-yard
touchdown burst to put EMU ahead for good.
Soccer
Men's
UB 1,
Western Michigan 1
UB and
Western Michigan played to a 1-1 double overtime tie in MAC men's soccer
action on Sunday afternoon. The Bulls now sit at 6-6-2 overall1-3-1
in the MAC.
Junior
Geoff Thompson gave the Bulls the lead with a goal 34:13 into the game.
Western Michigan then tied the game with two seconds left in the first
half on a one-time volley inside the right post.
The physical
match between the two conference rivals included 51 total fouls, eight
yellow cards, three red cards and a post-match scuffle.
Women's
UB 5,
Canisius 0
A big second-half
propelled UB to a 5-0 victory over Canisius in action in Canisius' Demske
Complex in the regular-season finale for both teams.
UB opened
the scoring at the 63:04 mark of the match as Andrea Sullivan scored
on a crossing pass from Jenny Dannecker from 10 yards out.
Later,
the Bulls erupted for four goals within eight minutes to seal the win.
Volleyball
UB
3, Binghamton 1 Sophomore
Lindsay Matikosh, freshman Katie Henry and senior Larissa LaCour recorded
double-doubles as UB shook off a slow start to down Binghamton University
in four games in a non-conference match in Alumni Arena.
The Bulls
dropped game one, 30-28, before rebounding to take consecutive games
by scores of 30-15, 32-30 and 30-25.
Against
Bowling Green, sophomore Becky Ashare had a team-high 12 kills, and
sophomore Alexis Bouie added 10 kills, but the Bulls fell to the Falcons
30-26, 30-28 and 30-24.
UB looked
to pick up its first MAC victory of the season at Central Michigan,
but fell to the Chippewas, 30-23, 30-23 and 30-22.
Cross Country
Men
place 5th of 12 teams at MAC Championships The men's
cross-country team finished fifth Saturday afternoon at the MAC Championships
held in Ypsilanti, Mich. The Bulls scored 135 points in the 12-team
men's championship.
In the
MAC Women's Championship meet, the Bulls placed 11th of 13 schools with
271 points.
Two UB
runners finished in the top 12 to earn All-MAC honors. Junior Jerimie
Slick finished sixth in 25:21.9 to nab First-Team Honors, while junior
Todd Ludden was eighth in 25:24.5 to place on the second-team.
Swimming
Women's
UB 189,
Siena 92
The swimming-and-diving
squad opened the 2001-02 season with a convincing win over Siena, 189-92,
Saturday afternoon in the Alumni Arena Natatorium.
The Bulls
had first-place finishes in all but one event, although UB raced the
final two events and the three-meter diving competition as exhibitions.
Crew
UB's lightweight
four squad of Becky Mohr, Gina Hayes, Jess Ecke and Nina Fleck and coxswain
Sarah Wold led the Bulls at the Head of the Elk Regatta in Elkhart,
Ind. The Bulls finished third in their race in 17:51.45, just behind
the University of Notre Dame (17:48.07). A squad from Miami University
took first in 17:01.07.
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