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J.J. Gibson of the football team had a team-high eight tackles (seven solo) and three quarterback sacks in Saturday's game against Marshall. Gibson, a junior strong safety, sacked Marshall quarterback Stan Hill three times for 30 yards in losses as the Bulls recorded five sacks as a team, the most this season.
Miglena Nenova of the women's tennis team was undefeated in the Bulls' two matches against Binghamton and Siena. Nenova, playing second singles, won a 10-6 tiebreaker over Binghamton's Melis Altinay to keep her dual-meet record (5-0) intact. In doubles, she formed UB's top duo with Kristen Ortman to shut out their opponents from Siena and win a 10-5 tiebreaker over Binghamton. She is now 6-2 in singles play and undefeated in doubles at 9-0.
Football
Marshall 26, UB 16
UB put forth a valiant effort on Saturday and nearly made Homecoming 2003 one of the most memorable in school history.
The Bulls battled Marshall, the only team in the nation to win five straight bowl games, toe-to-toe before dropping a heartbreaking 26-16 decision before 10,118 fired-up fans in UB Stadium.
After spotting the Herd a 19-3 first-half lead, the Bulls came roaring back to cut the deficit to 19-16 before the Herd was able to put the game away with a touchdown with 5:06 remaining after a controversial 15-yard penalty set the Herd up at the Bulls' 44-yard line.
After a 40-yard punt by Dominic Milano, UB freshman Jared Patterson drilled the Herd's Tremel Guillory moments after he caught the ball on what looked like a perfectly timed hit. However, the officials ruled kick-catching interference, a 15-yard penalty, and the Herd got great field position at the UB 44. A huge 24-yard catch by Darius Watts set the Herd up inside the UB 10 and Earl Charles eventually scored the game-clincher from six yards out.
UB will host Ohio on Saturday. Kickoff is 1 p.m.
Volleyball
UB 3, Niagara 0
Akron 3, UB 0
Ball State 3,
UB 0
UB swept Niagara, 3-0, iu the Gallagher Center on Oct. 15 to take its third win in its last four matches. Game scores were 30-21, 30-25 and 30-26.
The Bulls won the first two games in come-from-behind fashion. In game one, trailing 16-15, UB mounted a 15-5 run to close the game. The Bulls were down 10-5 in game two before coming back for the victory. The teams traded points in game three before hitting errors spelled Niagara's demise.
UB was shut out at Akron on Friday, losing a 3-0 match by scores of 30-13, 30-23 and 30-23 in the team1s return to Mid-American Conference play.
On Sunday, the team suffered its second consecutive 3-0 loss, this time at the hands of the visiting Ball State Cardinals in Alumni Arena. Game scores were 30-23, 30-27 and 30-22.
The Bulls (8-13 overall, 2-5 MAC) will continue their homestand this weekend as they next host Marshall tomorrow and Kent State on Saturday, Both matches will begin at 7 p.m. in Alumni Arena.
Soccer
WOMEN'S
UB 3, Bowling Green 2 (OT)
Toledo 1, UB 0
Erin McGarry picked the perfect time to score her first goal of the season as she netted the gamewinner 2:58 into the overtime session to lift UB to a thrilling, 3-2 win over Bowling Green at Cochrane Field on Friday.
Nicole Olszewski gave the Bulls an early 1-0 lead as she scored her fourth goal of the season in the ninth minute. Jennifer Rounds and McGarry were credited with assists on the play.
Bowling Green's Julie Trundle scored in the 17th minute to tie the game at 1-1. The game remained tied until Emily Russell scored her conference-leading 15th goal in the 67th minute to give the Bulls a 2-1 lead. Russell is now two goals shy of the school record of 17 goals scored in a season.
Falcon midfielder Britt Anderson scored in the 85th minute to knot the contest again and send it into overtime.
The winning play came after a UB corner kick by Shannon Ferreira sailed into a crowded penalty area. The Falcons were unable to clear the ball in traffic and it found McGarry on the right side of the goal, about six yards out. She quickly trapped the ball and shot it into the net, sparking a UB celebration.
However, the Bulls were unable to capitalize on the win as they fell to Toledo, 1-0, at Scott Park in Toledo on Sunday afternoon. Kelly Langenbeck scored for the Rockets eight minutes into the contest for the game's lone goal.
The Bulls outshot Toledo, 13-6, but were unable to get a shot past Rocket goalkeeper Tracey Lehman, who made eight saves to earn the shutout.
With the loss, the Bulls drop to 9-7-1 overall and 5-5-1 in the MAC. UB will host Kent State in its regular season home finale tomorrow in a key contest that could determine whether Buffalo will host a MAC playoff game. The Bulls currently are tied for fifth place in the conference with the top four teams hosting a playoff game.
Cross country
Wigton, Koeppel earn first-place finishes at Tribe Open
UB swept individual honors as the Bulls competed at the Tribe Open hosted by the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA on Saturday. Only the women's race was scored for team results as the Bulls finished third with 78 points behind first-place Virginia (34) and host William and Mary (47). The men's event was not scored.
UB runners won both the men's 8K and women's 6K races among large fields of runners. UB sophomore Andy Wigton took the men's race in 25:22.57 to finish six seconds ahead of the rest of the pack of 107 runners. UB junior Jenny Koeppel took the women's race among a field of 82 racers with a 21:50.25 clocking, more than 30 seconds ahead of the second-place runner, Virginia's Shannon Hawrylo (22:21.18).
Several Bulls also competed on Saturday at the Harry F. Anderson Invitational, hosted by Roberts Wesleyan. John Flor was the top men's finisher in the 8K race in a career-best 26:38. Susanna Cronmiller also set a career-best with her 17th place finish in 19:53 in the women's 5K race.
The squads are off this weekend and will compete in the MAC Championship meet on Nov. 1 in Akron.
Tennis
MEN'S
Three Bulls compete at ITA Northeast Regionals
UB's hopes of scoring a men's tennis champion at the ITA Northeast Regional Championships was dealt a crushing blow as all of its entries in the singles and doubles competitions were eliminated from contention on Saturday, following a strong opening round on Friday. Freshman singles player Mike Rockman and doubles duo Randy Rocchio and Nick Zieziula both fell in second-round play at the tournament, held at Cornell University's Reis Tennis Center.
Rockman, who had advanced to the second round following a 6-2, 6-3 win over Princeton's Hans Plukas on Friday, was defeated by Penn State's Todd Stecko, 6-1, 6-1 in the second round.
Rocchio and Zieziula moved into the second round late Friday night with an 8-3 win over Maryland-Baltimore County's duo of Mike Keller and Luis Baraldi. Rocchio and Zieziula were bounced from the main draw after extending Brown's Kris Goddard and Zack Pasanen, seeded eighth, to a tiebreaker, which Goddard and Pasanen won, 10-6, to record the 9-8 decision.
Rocchio and Zieziula also competed in the consolation singles draw. Rocchio was defeated in his first match of the consolation round, 6-3, 6-2, by Yale's Milosz Gudzowski. Zieziula downed Plukas in the consolations by a 6-4, 5-7, 11-9 margin. Zieziula then defeated Colgate's Marshall Wheeler, 6-3, 6-3, and Marist's Mark Santucci by default.
WOMEN'S
UB 6, Binghamton 1
Siena 4, UB 3
UB split a pair of matches on Saturday at Binghamton, defeating the host Bearcats, 6-1, in the opener, but falling to Siena, 4-3, in the nightcap. The Bulls are now 4-1 in dual meet matches for the fall campaign.
In the opener, the Bulls swept the doubles competition, with top duo Kristen Ortman and Miglena Nenova needing a tiebreaker to defeat Lya Kushnirovich and Alexis Brill. UB took the tiebreaker by a 10-5 margin to win the match 9-8.
In singles play, the Bulls took all but the number one match, including two matches that went to tiebreakers. Nenova needed a tiebreaker to defeat Melis Altinay, 6-0, 4-6, 10-6, at number two and Katrin Fischer rallied to defeat Brill, 7-6, 0-6, 10-8, at number three.
Michelle Kollarova scored a "double-bagel" victory at number four with her 6-0, 6-0 win over Vera Popova.
In the nightcap, UB snared the doubles point as Ortman and Nenova defeated Andrea Disponzio and Denisa Hluchova, 8-0, at number one while Kollarova and Fischer, at number two, dropped Rali Hristova and Sugam Langer, 8-4. The number three team of Lisa Wittman and Erica Zielinski fell, 9-7, to Julia Lebedev and Betsy Brookins.
Nenova, at number two, and Zielinski, at number five, won singles matches for the Bulls. Nenova had little trouble in downing Disponzio, 6-3, 6-0, while Zielinski, who moved up to number five from her usual sixth spot, defeated Brookins, 6-2, 7-5. The match was decided as Siena took two tiebreakers, at number one and three, to clinch the 4-3 decision and hand the Bulls their first loss of the season.
At number one, Ortman lost a 10-8 tiebreaker to Hristova, while Fischer suffered a 10-2 tiebreaker loss to Hluchova after winning the second set, 6-0, to force the tiebreaker.
Crew
Rowers place sixth at Head of the Charles
The famed Charles River in Boston provided the setting for Sunday's Head of the Charles Regatta. UB fielded one entry in the prestigious competition and came away with a sixth-place finish. The Bulls were among 38 boats that raced in the Collegiate Eight event of the regatta, which attracted top teams from throughout the United States and Ontario.
The UB entry completed the more than two-mile, Charles River course that wound past three college campuses—MIT, Boston University and Harvard—in an adjusted time of 17:24.769 to finish sixth overall. Queen's University of Canada won the event in 16:47.321. Louisville was second in 17:01.362, followed by teams from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (17:05.304), West Virginia (17:09.490), Lehigh (17:10.413) and UB.