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Margaret Devendorf

CAMDEN, NJ ­ The University at Buffalo's Novice 4 team brought home the first Knecht Cup title in school history on Sunday to highlight the weekend races on the Cooper River in Camden, NJ.

UB's Novice 4 squad, consisting of coxswain Margaret Devendorf (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool), stroke seat Jackie Stone (Syracuse, NY/Nottingham), third seat Beth Gaworecki (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker), second seat Devin Broadwell (Canandaigua, NY/Marcus Whitman) and bow seat Crystal Byrnes (Ballston Spa, NY/Saratoga Springs), finished first among 30 overall entries in the two-day competition. The Bulls easily won the title with an eight-second win over Kansas in the Grand Final. UB finished in 8:07.6. They also won heat and semifinal races on Saturday to move into Sunday's final.

Jackie Stone

The Novice 8 team scored a third-place overall finish in the Grand Final as 28 crews entered the competition. UB turned in a 7:04.4 clocking in the Grand Final, finishing behind only the Princeton lightweights (6:58.2) and George Washington (6:59.2). UB won its opening heat by 21 seconds over Delaware, who later took the Petite Final, and was second to George Washington in the semifinals by less than two seconds. The UB entry included Devendorf at coxswain, stroke seat Maggie Fairgrieve (Fort Erie, Ontario/Lakeshore Catholic), seventh seat Paige Baritot (Orchard Park, NY/Buffalo Seminary), sixth seat Mia Pavletic (Grand Rapids, MI/Forest Hills Central), fifth seat Nicole Cyr (Groton, NY/Dryden), fourth seat Jill Harclerode (Portland, OR/Westview), Stone in the third seat, second seat Jessica Hughes (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) and bow seat Darcie Bryant (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker). Devendorf and Stone turned out to the workhorses in the UB lineup as they were also part of the Novice 4 team, which meant they competed in heats and semifinals of both races on Saturday.

Katie Barnum

The Lightweight 4 squad also posted a third-place overall finish in the Grand Finals with 18 squads opening the competition on Saturday, rowing just one heat. UB won the Saturday heat by 14 seconds over the MIT A squad. As it turned out, the only two crews UB finished behind in the Grand Final were the other two heat winners, Princeton and Wisconsin. The Tigers won the final race in 7:50.4, followed by the Badgers in 7:53.7 and the Bulls in 8:06.9. The UB shell included coxswain Abbie Potts (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg), stroke seat Katie Barnum (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa), third seat Karen Corey (Kingston, NY/Kingston), second seat Caitlin Hambridge (Amherst, NY/Holy Angels), and bow seat Caitlin Logue (Buffalo, NY/Nardin Academy).

Two other crews finished with success in the Petite Final races. The Second Varsity 8 crew was second in the Petite Final to Marist and eighth overall among the 16 entries. UB finished two seconds behind the Red Foxes in 7:19.6. Marist won the race in 7:17.3. UB was third in the opening heat on Saturday in 8:35.50 behind Colgate and eventual Grand Finals champion Boston College. The UB entry included coxswain Kaitlin Buchheit (Amherst, NY/Amherst), stroke seat Chandra Hazey (Riverview, MI/Riverview), seventh seat Bonnie McVicker (Syracuse, NY/C.W. Baker), sixth seat Alexis Grates (Fredonia, NY/Fredonia), fifth seat Emilee Norris (Cheektowaga, NY/Cheektowaga), fourth seat Lindsey Yonko (Apalachin, NY/Vestal), third seat Joanne Olsen (Niskayuna, NY/Niskayuna), second seat Stephanie Spinella (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) and bow seat Jacquie Zehler (Alden, NY/Attica).

The Varsity 8 team finished 11th overall in a 27-team field, taking fifth place in the Petite Finals. The Bulls clocked a 7:04.2 in the final, seven-tenths of a second behind fourth-place UC Davis. Boston College won the Petite Final in 6:52.7. The Bulls moved into the Petite Final after a third-place finish in Saturday's heat and a fourth-place showing in the semifinals. UB's lineup consisted of coxswain Sher Briggs (St. Catharines, Ontario/West Park SS), stroke seat Tara Celestini (St. Catharines, Ontario/Sir Winston Churchill), seventh seat Corinne Blum (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford-Sutherland), sixth seat Kasey Hansen (Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima), fifth seat Kali Spoto (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford-Sutherland), fourth seat Deanna Knighton (Angola, NY/Lake Shore), third seat Michelle Schwach (Buffalo, NY/Nardin Academy), second seat Kat Vossler (Jamestown, NY/Falconer) and bow seat Natalie Pugliese (Niagara Falls, Ontario/St. Paul's).

UB faces Cincinnati and the same Kansas squad that competed against them at the Knecht Cup in a three-way meet next Saturday in Ohio.