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McDowell Breaks Diving Records at Binghamton

Michael McDowell

BINGHAMTON, NY – The University at Buffalo men’s swimming and diving team fell to non-conference foe Binghamton, 144-98, on Friday afternoon. The Bulls are now 2-2 while the Bearcats improve to 2-4.

For the second time this season, sophomore Michael McDowell (Rush, NY/Rush Henrietta) set UB records in both the one- and three-meter diving events. In the one-meter competition, McDowell scored 344.79 points for six dives to easily surpass his previous best of 325.88 set in October in a dual meet against Duquesne. McDowell also ran away with the three-meter record in the victory as he scored 365.40 points to better the 356.92 he posted in the Duquesne meet. McDowell won Friday’s one-meter event by more than 70 points and the three-meter competition by nearly 90 points over the second-place finisher, Binghamton’s Ryan Graham.

Connor Vander Zalm

Sophomore Connor Vander Zalm (Kelowna, British Columbia/Kelowna) was a double-winner in the distance freestyle races for the Bulls. Vander Zalm opened with a win in the 1,000-yard freestyle in 10:03.10. He completed the sweep with a victory in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:54.34.

Sophomore Andrew Tamchyna (Newmarket, Ontario/Newmarket) won the 200-yard backstroke in 1:56.07.

UB swimmers also scored a pair of narrow wins by less than a tenth of a second. In the 200-yard butterfly, senior Mike Hurst (Rochester, NY/Greece Athena) held off Binghamton’s Jason Chen to win in 2:01.78. Chen finished in 2:01.86. In the 100-yard freestyle, junior Zach Ruske (Superior, CO/Monarch) took the race in 49.22 as Binghamton’s Brian Koralewski finished second in 49.27.

The Bulls next travel to local rival Niagara for a matchup with the Purple Eagles on Saturday, January 19 at 1:00 pm.