MT. PLEASANT, MI The University at Buffalo completed the Mid-American Conference Men's and Women's Track and Field Championships on Saturday with three school records and an improved men's overall showing from last season.

Tom Abbey

UB's men took seventh in the 11-team meet with 53.25 overall points. Host Central Michigan won the meet with a total of 158. Eastern Michigan (137.25) took second, followed by Kent State (116.5), Toledo (95), Ball State (67), Miami (60), UB, Western Michigan (43), Akron (42), Ohio (33) and Marshall (13). The seventh-place finish is an improvement on last season's MAC finish of 11th when the league included a dozen men's squads.

In the women's championship, the Bulls placed ninth among 13 squads with 45 points. Eastern Michigan finished first at 117.5, ahead of Miami (106), Akron (95), Kent State (86), Western Michigan (83), Ball State (68), Central Michigan (62.5), Toledo (59), UB, Ohio (43), Bowling Green (36), Marshall (15) and Northern Illinois (3).

Highlighting the men's meet on Saturday was the 4x400 relay squad of Bryan Weinstein (Getzville, NY/Williamsville North), Tim Giagios (Rochester, NY/Gates-Chili), Tom Abbey (Arcade, NY/Pioneer) and Joe Clark (Amherst, NY/Sweet Home). The foursome turned in a second-place finish of 3:12.66, just a second shy of the school record set in 1995. Weinstein, Abbey and Clark were joined by Mario Hicks (Painted Post, NY/Corning West) to form the 4x100 relay team that took fifth in 41.53, tying the school record set last season. Individually, Hicks took fourth in the 110 hurdles in 14.74 with Erich Smithson (East Aurora, NY/Iroquois) finishing seventh in the race in 14.87. Clark placed fifth in the 400-meters in 47.45. Jerimie Slick (Rochester, NY/Greece-Olympia) took sixth in the 5,000-meters in 14:40.13. Dan Simpson (Rochester, NY/Gates-Chili) tied for eighth in the pole vault at 15-1.

Christina Keck

On the women's side, senior Christina Keck (Erie, PA/McDowell) broke a 10-year old record with her performance in the 1500-meter run on Saturday. Keck turned in a 4:34.59 to finish eighth in the field and breaking the record of 4:36.54 set by Judith Novak in 1993. Keck also placed sixth in the 800-meters in 2:14.76.

Beverly Weyer

Beverly Weyer (Castalia, OH/St. Mary's Central Catholic) registered a fifth-place finish in the discus at 141-5. Biaunca McFarland (Binghamton, NY/Binghamton) placed sixth in the triple jump at 40-1.50 and Jenelle Callender (Brooklyn, NY/Brooklyn Tech) finished seventh in the 400-meters in 57.43. The 4x100 relay team of Callender, Krystal Seiling (Lewiston, NY/Lewiston-Porter), Pauletta Dickerson (Wichita, KS/Northeast Magnet) and McFarland placed eighth in 47.09, breaking last year's school record by three-quarters of a second. McFarland, Callender, Allison Laske (Candandaigua, NY/Canandaigua Academy) and Seiling formed the 4x400 relay team that finished seventh in 3:49.91.

The Bulls will have one more chance to improve on their season results with the NCAA East Regional meet May 30 and 31 in Fairfax, VA. Throughout the regular season, UB has qualifyed eight athletes in nine events for the competition that will determine the field for the NCAA Championships to be held in Sacramento, CA next month.