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ATHENS, OH - The University at Buffalo completed the Mid-American Conference Men's Swimming

and Diving Championships with an eighth-place showing scoring 113 points in the three-day meet. Eastern Michigan took the team title with 777 to outdistance Miami (Ohio), who placed second with 749 in the eight-team meet.

Aviv Oren

The Bulls picked up a strong performance by freshman Aviv Oren (Rishon Le-Zion, Israel/Makif A'). Oren finished fourth in the 200 breaststroke finals in a season-best 2:06.31. Oren had qualified for the finals with a 2:06.50 in Saturday morning's preliminaries, shaving two and a half seconds off his previous best mark and breaking Kevin Remaly's 1995 record of 2:07.42. Geoff Wells (Waterville, OH/Anthony Wayne) was 17th in a season-best 2:16.10 and Mike Szyprowski (Grand Island, NY/Grand Island) took 18th in 2:19.55.

Oren also was part of the Bulls 400 freestyle relay squad which finished seventh in 3:10.85. Oren swam the first leg of the relay with teammates Jon Yarger (Centre Hill, PA/Penns Valley), Tony Lizauckas (Buffalo, NY/Kenmore West) and Kevin Kotowski (Wilmington, DE/Salesianium) following into the water. The time bettered UB's previous best by 1.07 seconds.

Dustin Hui

Freestyle miler Dustin Hui (Gardner, MA/Gardner) placed 14th at the 1650-yard distance in

16:27.64, scoring three individual points for the Bulls. He cut more than 20 seconds off his previous best for the distance. Sophomore Alan Lowe (Brownsville, TX/Hanna) just missed the scoring column, placing 17th in 16:39.66.

Freshman Evan McCormack (Webster, NY/Webster) also turned in a season-best time with his

19th-place finish in the 200 backstroke in 1:57.38, lowering his season best by a half-second.

Final Team Scores

Eastern Michigan 777, Miami (Ohio) 749, Toledo 595, Northern Illinois 392, Ohio 375, Ball State 297, Bowling Green 185, UB 113.