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Bulls Sweep Past Duquesne in Dual Opener

The UB men’s and women's swimming and diving teams scored dual-meet victories over visiting Duquesne at Alumni Arena Natatorium. The UB men downed the Dukes, 129-107 while the women defeated Duquesne 128.5-84.5.

Lehner, Ballard, Vander Zalm Score Big For Bulls

The UB women 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. In the men’s meet, UB won seven of the 13 events with sophomore Connor Vander Zalm (Kelowna, British Columbia/Kelowna) taking both distance freestyle races for the second consecutive week to lead the team to victory.

Andrea Lehner

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.

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. She 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.

Connor Vander Zalm

Vander Zalm, named the Mid-American Conference's Men's Swimmer of the Week on Wednesday, lowered his time from last week's Western New York Invitational to take the 1,000-yard freestyle race in 9:51.41, 10 seconds better than his mark last Saturday. Vander Zalm also scored a win in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:50.38.

Records Take a Dive

Michael McDowell

Three of the four diving events against Duquesne turned into new school records for the Bulls. Michael McDowell (Rush, NY/Rush Henrietta) set two new school records in winning both the one- and three-meter competitions. McDowell scored 325.88 points on the one-meter board, bettering his own mark from last season by two points. McDowell came back to claim the three-meter victory, extending his existing school record, with a total of 356.92 for the six-dive program. McDowell scored a previous school-record 338.80 last season as a freshman. Women’s sophomore 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.

Women Hit the Road, Men are Idle

The women’s team travels 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. The men’s squad is off until hosting MAC Champion, Eastern Michigan, on November 9.