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UB Women Down Duquesne, 128.5-84.5

Andrea Lehner

BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo's women's swimming and diving team scored a 128.5-84.5 victory over visiting Duquesne on Friday to open the dual-meet schedule at UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium.

UB won eight of the first 10 events before exhibitioning the remaining three events. Sophomores Andrea Lehner (Lockport, NY/Orchard Park) and Jessica Ballard (Montreal, Quebec/Academic Magnet) each won two individual events with Ballard adding a relay victory onto her total.

Lehner, named Mid-American Conference Women's Swimmer of the Week on Wednesday, swept the 100- and 200-yard freestyle races. In the 100-yard race, she turned in a 52.41 clocking. In the 200-yard freestyle, Lehner lowered her time from last weekend's Western New York Invitational and came within a second of breaking the school record with her finish of 1:52.66.

Jessica Ballard

Ballard won the 200-yard individual medley in 2:11.76. She later came back to win the 100-yard backstroke in 1:00.25. Ballard also swam the backstroke portion of UB's winning 200-yard medley relay as she combined with Ashley Schaffert (Lockport, NY/Lockport), Sam Palma (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster) and Jessie Koltz (Chenango Bridge, NY/Chenango Valley) to touch the wall in 1:48.49.

Meili Carpenter

Sophmore diver Meili Carpenter (Boulder, CO/Fairview) broke the school record for one-meter diving with her six-dive total of 311.25 points. Carpenter surpassed Ashlee Burton's 2005 total of 302.90 on the short board.

Palma won the 100-yard freestyle in 57.74 while freshman Jordan Deren (Lackawanna, NY/Nardin Academy) scored a win in the 500-yard freestyle in 5:08.07.

The Bulls travel to Miami (Ohio) and Ohio University on November 2 and 3 to open the Mid-American Conference slate. UB faces the RedHawks on Friday, November 2 at 5:00 pm and then travels to Athens to face the Bobcats on Saturday, November 3 at 1:00 pm.