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Bulls Stand Fourth After Second Day of SummaCare Invitational

Kevin Schuster

AKRON, OH – The University at Buffalo men's swimming and diving team ended the second day of the University of Akron's SummaCare Invitational with a trio of second-place finishes while several Bulls posted individual season or lifetime bests in their events.

The Bulls stand in fourth place in the eight-team men's meet with 819.5 points. Mid-American Conference rival Ohio took the second day lead with 908 points, while Clarion, Friday's first-place team, fell to second with 865. Duquesne moved up to third ahead of the Bulls with 835 points. Following UB are Xavier (739), St. Bonaventure (715), Shippensburg (602.5) and Bloomsburg (256).

Sophomore Kevin Schuster (Rochester, NY/Greece-Athena) scored a second-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly in a season-best time of 50.97, cutting nearly two and a half seconds off his season-best and just missing his lifetime best by a fraction of a second.

Connor Vander Zalm

Schuster also teamed with Zach Ruske (Superior, CO/Monarch), Connor Vander Zalm (Kelowna, British Columbia) and Luke Adams (Quinnesec, MI/Kingsford) to rally the Bulls to a second-place finish in the night's final event, the 800-yard freestyle relay. The Bulls' quartet touched the wall in 6:58.20, the first time this season that they have raced the event. Schuster also anchored the 200-yard medley relay to a seventh-place finish in 1:36.24 along with Andrew Tamchyna (Newmarket, Ontario/Newmarket), Jordan Matthews (Burnt Hills, NY/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) and Scott Woster (North Pole, AK/North Pole).

Freshman diver Michael McDowell (Rush, NY/Rush Henrietta) nabbed second place on the one-meter board with 228.90 points. McDowell set a meet and pool record on Friday in the three-meter event, winning with a six-dive total of 332.40 points, just one point shy of the UB record.

The Bulls had a pair of championship finalists in two events on Saturday night. In the 400-yard individual medley, Vander Zalm took fifth in a lifetime-best time of 4:10.10. Ruske finished seventh in 4:13.83, after setting a lifetime best of his own in the morning preliminaries in 4:12.58.

Tamchyna posted a lifetime best in the 100-yard backstroke, placing fourth in 52.13. Adams took eighth in 53.48, after settting a season-best mark of 53.30 in the prelims.

Matthews scored a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke in 59.55, establishing another lifetime best for the Bulls.

The Bulls have collected 16 lifetime-best times from its swimmers and divers thus far in the first two days of the meet.

Competition concludes on Sunday.