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PITTSBURGH, PA - The University at Buffalo held on to its ninth-place showing through Friday's events at the ECAC Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Pittsburgh. UB now has 108 points, heading into Saturday's final night trailing eighth-place Westminster (111) by just three points. Four-time defending champion Maryland-Baltimore County leads with 458.5 points. Thirty teams have scored points in the meet with Niagara tallying one point for 30th place.

Aviv Oren

Freshman Aviv Oren (Rishon Le-Zion, Israel/Makif A') led the Bulls Friday evening with his performance in the 100 breaststroke. Oren turned in a season-best 58.19 to take fifth place after placing sixth in the preliminaries in 59.00.

The Bulls also placed a pair in the consolation finals of the 100 backstroke. Junior Tony Lizauckas (Buffalo, NY/Kenmore West) finished 12th in 54.91 while freshman teammate Evan McCormack (Webster, NY/Webster) was 14th in a season-best 55.24. Niagara's Rob Harold garnered the Purple Eagles' lone point of the meet thus far with his 16th place finish in the race in 55.55.

Tony Lizauckas

UB's 800 freestyle relay team of Jon Yarger (Centre Hill, PA/Penns Valley), Lizauckas, Alan Lowe (Brownsville, TX/Hanna) and Kevin Kotowski (Wilmington, DE/Salesianum) reached the championship finals placing eighth in a season-best 7:06.85 to pick up 22 points in the team scoring and enabling the Bulls to crack the 100-point plateau in the meet. The 200 medley relay team of Yarger, Geoff Wells (Waterville, OH/Anthony Wayne), Lowe and Oren took 13th in its race with a 1:38.33 clocking.

Head coach Budd Termin was enthused about his young squad reaching the finals in their events. "All the kids are getting back to the consolations or championships and tomorrow we have our best events coming up," said Termin.

Meet scoring through Friday's events

Maryland-Baltimore County 458.5, Marist 276.5, Rider 219, Towson 206, Yale 153, Central Connecticut State 149, Penn 127, Westminster 111, UB 108, Drexel 97, New Hampshire 92, Boston College 79, Rhode Island 60, Bucknell 59, Delaware 56, Lafayette 47, Binghamton 46, Pittsburgh 43, Georgetown 41, SUNY-New Paltz 37, St. Francis (NY) 34, New York University 28, St. John's 20, Boston University 17, Gettysburg 17, Fairfield 13, Indiana (PA) 12, West Chester 7, Penn State-Behrend 4, Niagara 1.