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Squads Split With Bearcats; Women Fall to Rockets

The University at Buffalo swimming and diving teams had a busy weekend to start the second semester as the teams traveled to Binghamton for a non-conference matchup on Friday afternoon. The teams split their meets with the Bearcats as the women defeated BU, 140-99, while the men fell, 144-98. On Saturday, the women’s team hosted Mid-American Conference rival Toledo, falling to the Rockets by a 202-97 margin.

McDowell Sets Diving Records For Second Time This Year

Michael McDowell

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 at the Binghamton meet. 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.

Lehner Breaks Another Backstroke Mark

Andrea Lehner

In Saturday’s meet against Toledo, sophomore Andrea Lehner (Lockport, NY/Orchard Park) broke the UB record in winning the 200-yard backstroke. Lehner turned in a time of 2:01.59, obliterating the old mark of 2:04.38 set by Alexandra Barerra in the 1995 season. Lehner led throughout the race but needed the record pace to win the event as second-place finisher Meghan Reissig of Toledo also posted a time faster than the old UB record at 2:03.16. The backstroke mark is the fourth individual record broken by Lehner, who joined the Bulls this season after competiting at Maryland last year. Lehner, who sat out the Binghamton meet on Friday due to illness, also won Saturday’s 200-yard freestyle in 1:51.60, holding off Toledo's Jacy Dyer, who finished second in 1:51.78.

Carpenter, Palma, Vander Zalm Score Doubles

Meili Carpenter

Women’s sophomores Meili Carpenter (Boulder, CO/Fairview) and Sam Palma (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster) and men’s sophomore Connor Vander Zalm (Kelowna, British Columbia/Kelowna) each won multiple events over the weekend. Against Binghamton, Carpenter swept the women’s diving events scoring a 281.70 for her six-dive program in the one-meter event and 289.35 in the three-meter competition. On Saturday, she took the three-meter competition with a six-dive total of 301.15 and finished second to Toledo's Megan McKinley by a point and a half on the one-meter board.

Sam Palma

Palma won two races against Toledo. She led wire to wire in the 100-yard freestyle, winning the race in 53.59 and holding off Toledo's Ashley Cusack who finished second by three-hundredths of a second (53.62). Palma also rolled to a victory in the 100-yard butterfly, winning the race in 57.63.

Connor Vander Zalm

Vander Zalm paced the men’s swimmers at Binghamton 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.