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Second Day of Diving Complete

Saturday's results

BUFFALO, NY – The second day of the 2008 NCAA Zone A Diving Championships turned into a carbon copy of the first day as the men's and women's champions from Friday won again on Saturday at the University at Buffalo's Alumni Arena. Drexel's Kate Hynes won the women's three-meter event with Pittsburgh's Alex Volovetski taking the one-meter competition. Hynes won the one-meter and Volvetski won the three-meter events on Friday.

Meili Carpenter

Hynes scored 640.60 total points for her 12 dives to lead the women's three-meter springboard competition from wire to wire. Hynes was the top scorer in the six-dive preliminary session with 326.40 points, the only individual with more than 300 points. She scored 314.20 points in the finals, holding off Samantha Papadakis of Harvard by 10 points in the finals. Papadakis scored 586.90 points overall to finish second. Tess Waresmith of Boston University was third with 585.15 points.

In the men's event, Volovetski ran away from the rest of the cometition scoring 781.95 points for his 12 dives. Volovetski scored 390.70 points in the preliminary round and improved on the total with a score of 391.25 in the finals. He defeated Pittsburgh teammate Jeremy Stultz (649.35) by 132.60 points. Jeff Lichtenstein of Yale finished third at 629.55 points.

UB's Meili Carpenter (Boulder, CO/Fairview) finished sixth in the women's three-meter competition with 530.70 points. Carpenter had the fifth-highest preliminary score of 277.45 and turned in a showing of 283.00 in the finals. She also finished fifth in Friday's one-meter event.

Michael McDowell

Men's diver Michael McDowell (Rush, NY/Rush Henrietta) placed ninth on the one-meter board with 547.40 points for his 12 dives. McDowell struggled to reach the finals, scoring 255.55 points in the preliminaries, placing him 16th as the top 18 divers move into the championship round. He scored 291.85 points in the final round, seventh-highest in the round, for his overall finish.

A total of 31 men and 19 women comprised Saturday'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 concludes on Sunday as platform diving will be contested beginning at 11:00 am.