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Goalkeeper Dan Bell of the men's soccer team collected three shutouts in the MAC Tournament and earned All-Tournament honors in helping the Bulls to the championship match.
Danielle Gervais of the women's swimming-and-diving team earned two breaststroke victories against Toledo.
Football
UB 10, Kent State 6
UB, buoyed by a defense that broke a Division I-A record by limiting Kent State to minus-37 yards rushing and just 138 total yards, won its first Mid-American
Conference road game in its seven years in the conference with a 10-6 win over the Golden Flashes on Saturday in Dix Stadium.
UB forced four turnovers and limited a Kent State offense averaging nearly 320 yards per game to a pair of field goals.
The Bulls' led 3-0 at halftime after Michael Baker connected on a field goal from 20 yards out to cap a 13-play, 69-yard drive in the second quarter.
UB went up 10-0 when tailback Jared Patterson burst in from four yards out on third down to extend UB's lead to 10-0 with 12:36 remaining in the third quarter.
The Bulls will host Eastern Michigan at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the season finale.
Volleyball
Northern Illinois 3, UB 1
Western Michigan 3, UB 0
UB dropped a pair of home matches to Northern Illinois and Western Michigan last weekend to complete the regular season. On Friday, the Bulls dropped a 3-1 match to the visiting Huskies, 30-18, 30-18, 28-30 and 30-20. UB then lost to the Broncos in three games, 30-26, 30-27, 30-22, on Saturday.
Soccer
MEN'S
UB 4, Indiana
University-Purdue University Fort Wayne 0
UB 2, Northern Illinois 0
UB 0, Akron 0 (2OT)
(Akron won 7-6 on penalty kicks)
The Bulls took the nationally third-ranked Akron Zips into two extra sessions in Sunday's MAC Championship game. On a day that promised rain but ended up with clear blue skies, and the score tied up at 0-0 after 110:00 minutes, the teams
were slated to compete in one of the rarest events to occur in a soccer game: the shootout. Only in a do-or-die situation is the shootout called upon, but third-seeded UB fell short of its first MAC Championship title as Akron outscored the Bulls, 7-6, for its second straight MAC Championship title.
After two extra sessions, the two goalkeepers were called upon to save their teams' respective seasons. The teams exchanged scores for six rounds until Akron goalkeeper and MAC Newcomer of the Year Evan Bush managed to come away with his best save of the season, stopping UB's top scoring leader, Andrae Clarke, and claiming the MAC Championship title.
Because it was a MAC tournament game, the game goes down as a tie for both sides. UB, at 14-3-2, finishes as runner-up in the tournament after outscoring its competition 6-0 in three games. Seniors Greg Galemore, Matt Stuczynski and Daniel Bell were named to the MAC All-Tournament team.
The Bulls moved into the championship game following a 2-0 upset win over second-seeded Northern Illinois. UB opened the tournament at home with a 4-0 win over Indiana University-Purdue University FW.
Cross Country
McKenna earns All-Northeast honors
Junior Dan McKenna earned All-Northeast honors with his 19th-place individual finish among 232 runners to highlight the performances of the men's and women's cross-country squads at the 2005 NCAA Northeast Region Championships at Franklin Park in Boston.
McKenna finished the 10K course in 30:50.9, more than two minutes faster than last year's finish in the regional meet. McKenna became the first UB men's runner to earn All-Northeast status since Jerimie Slick finished eighth in the 2001 meet. The top 25 finishers in the men's and women's fields earn all-region honors.
Senior Jen Jezorski was UB's top women's finisher on Saturday, covering the 6K course in 22:07.0 to take 42nd among 254 runners.
In the team competitions, the UB men posted their best-ever finish with an 11th-place showing, scoring 368 points among 37 teams. The Bulls were just three points out of the top 10. The UB women scored 435 points to place 16th in a 38-team field.
Basketball
MEN'S
UB 90, Gannon 59 (exhibition)
UB topped Division II Gannon, 90-59, in exhibition play in Alumni Arena on Friday night. Mario Jordan scored 22 points as the Bulls' veterans stepped up to lead the team to victory.
Yassin Idbihi scored 16 points, Calvin Cage added 15 points and Roderick Middleton chipped in 13 points.
The Bulls shot 62.1 percent from the floor. UB applied constant pressure on Gannon all night forcing 26 turnovers, and dominated play inside, outscoring the Golden Knights, 48-20, in the paint.
The Bulls officially will open the season when they host Canisius at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Alumni Arena.
Swimming
WOMEN'S
Toledo 180, UB 118
UB fell to MAC rival Toledo, 180-118, on Saturday in Alumni Arena Natatorium.
The Bulls (2-4 overall, 0-4 MAC) posted a pair of double-winners, with juniors Danielle Gervais and Kahla Walkinshaw earning two victories apiece.
Gervais swept the breaststroke races for the Bulls. She took the 100-yard distance in 1:08.31 and later posted a season-best performance to win the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:26.32, .15 seconds faster than her previous best set two weeks ago against Miami (Ohio).
Walkinshaw swept the butterfly events. She took the 200-yard race in 2:06.17 and then, as a late addition, scored a victory in the 100-yard butterfly. Walkinshaw's 100-yard time was 58.64 to lower her season-best by three-quarters of a second. Walkinshaw also finished second in the 1,000-yard freestyle in 10:38.99.
Wrestling
Bulls place seven, finish fifth at Oklahoma Gold meet
Senior Kyle Cerminara won his second title in as many tournaments as he downed nationally ranked Joe Dennis of Cleveland State, 6-0, to claim the 197-pound title at the Oklahoma Gold Classic held on Saturday in Brockport State College's Tuttle Gymnasium.
Six other Bulls placed at the tournament, helping Buffalo to place fifth out of 11 teams at the tournament. Oklahoma took first, amassing 171 points, while Pennsylvania, another perennial top 25 team, nipped on the Sooners' heels, finishing with 166 points. Army, UB's rival in the New York State Collegiate Championships and Kent State, UB's MAC rival, finished in third and fourth, respectively.
Cerminara, who wrapped up the Slippery Rock Open title last Saturday, won four matches, pinning Brockport's Stephen Spiegeleire in the first round before downing Kent State's Ben Rings, 10-4, in the quarterfinals and Ohio's Larry Richard, 7-5, in the semifinals.
UB will return to the mats with its home opener in Alumni Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday with a quad-meet with Bloomsburg, Findlay and Gardner-Webb.