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Diving Championships Complete Day One at Buffalo

Friday's results

Michael McDowell

BUFFALO, NY – The first day of the 2008 NCAA Zone A Diving Championships were completed Friday afternoon at the University at Buffalo's Alumni Arena with Drexel's Kate Hynes and Pittsburgh's Alex Volovetski claiming victories on the one-meter and three-meter springboards respectively.

Hynes took the women's one-meter competition with a total score of 599.05 points for her 12 dives. Hynes was the top finisher after the six-dive preliminary competition with 294.85 points and was the lone women's diver to amass more than 300 points in the finals, scoring 304.20 points. Rider's Amanda Burke was second with 553.10 points and Samanatha Papadakis of Harvard placed third at 539.10 points.

In the men's three-meter event, Pittsburgh claimed the top two slots as Volovetski scored a 12-dive total mark of 771.55 points. He was the top qualifier after posting a six-dive preliminary score of 385.25. Volovetski was second to teammate Jeremy Stultz in the finals, but had accumulated enough points to clinch first place. Stultz, who scored 395.30 points in the final round, placed second with 738.40 points. Yale's Jeff Lichtenstein finished third with 716.60 points.

Meili Carpenter

UB had divers entered in both competitions. Sophomore Meili Carpenter (Boulder, CO/Fairview) placed fifth on the women's one-meter board with a 12-dive total of 530.70 points. Carpenter scored 266.50 points in the preliminary round, the fourth-highest among the 22 entrants. She then posted a final round total of 264.20.

Sophomore Michael McDowell (Rush, NY/Rush Henrietta) finished fifth on the men's three-meter board. McDowell turned in a 12-dive total of 630.05 points, after scoring 288.40 points in the prelims and 341.65 points in the finals.

A total of 30 men and 22 women comprised Friday's fields. After six preliminary dives, the field was narrowed to the top 18 point scorers in both competitions for the final round which consisted of six additional dives.

The winners of zone championships advance to the NCAA Championships later this month. The women will compete in Columbus, OH and the men in Federal Way, WA. Five zone meets are being held this weekend with Buffalo, Auburn, AL, Columbus, Houston and Oklahoma City serving as host sites.

Competition continue Saturday at 1:00 pm with the women's three-meter and men's one-meter events. Platform diving will be contested on Sunday at 11:00 am.