WOMEN'S ROWING

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Kaitlin Buchheit

In Women's Open Four, the Bulls finished strong with a 10th-place finish in a field of 20 teams with a time of 40:13.51. Brock University upended Western Ontario to take a first-place finish with a time of 36:37.15. The UB Open Four squad consisted of coxswain Kaitlin Buchheit (Amherst, NY/Amherst), Caitlin Hambridge (Amherst, NY/Holy Angels Academy), Beth Gaworecki (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker), Morgan Witte (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker), and Katie Barnum (Clifton Park, NY/Shenedehowa).

The Women's Varsity Eight competition matched two UB squads up in a field of 30. Western Ontario beat out Williams College for top honors with a time of 32:18.19, while the two UB boats out-lengthed 20 other teams, as they placed eighth and ninth within five seconds of each other. In the boat for the eighth-place Bulls were coxswain Margaret Devendorf (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool), Chandra Hazey (Riverview, MI/Riverview), Emilee Norris (Cheektowaga, NY/Cheektowaga), Amanda Mackeigan (Brockville, Ontario/Brockville Collegiate Institute), Bridget Yannes (Edgewater Park, NJ/Holy Cross HS), Jessica Hughes (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool), Amanda Garbacz (St. Catharines, Ontario/Dennis Morris), Maggie Fairgrieve (Fort Erie, Ontario/Lakeshore Catholic), and Bonnie McVicker (Syracuse, NY/C.W. Baker).

Corinne Blum

The ninth-place boat consisted of coxswain Sher Briggs (St. Catharines, Ontario/West Park SS), Corinne Blum (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Sutherland), Nicki Cyr (Groton, NY/Dryden), Lauren Sexton (Niagara Falls, Ontario/St. Paul), Melina Dicosimo (Niagara Falls, Ontario/St. Paul), Paige Baritot (Orchard Park, NY/Buffalo Seminary), Jill Harclerode (Portland, OR/Westview), Natalie Pugliese (Niagara Falls, Ontario/St. Paul's), and Karen Corey (Kingston, NY/Kingston).

Last year, UB represented two squads in the Varsity Eight and finished third and 19th, while the Varsity Four placed fifth out of a 17-team field.

The rowers see their next competition on Sat.-Sun., Oct. 22-23, when they travel to Boston, Mass. to partake in the Head of the Charles.