Tennis

Women

Rollins College 8, UB 1

The women's tennis squad played one match during its spring break trip to Florida, dropping an 8-1 decision to Division II Rollins College on March 6.

Karen Maynard was UB's lone victor, taking the second singles match 6-2, 6-2 over Camila Romula.

Men

UB 4, Rollins College 3
Northern Illinois 7, UB 0

The men's squad played a pair of matches during its recent trip to Florida, downing Rollins, 4-3, before falling to Mid-American Conference foe Northern Illinois, 7-0.

In the match against Rollins, the Bulls earned the win on the day's final match at fifth singles. Tim Powell rallied from a set down to defeat the Tars' Brian Nelson 3-6, 6-4, 7-6. The match was decided in a grueling 15-13 tiebreaker.

Neither the weather nor the opposition was kind to the Bulls against Northern Illinois, as the match included a three-hour rain delay. UB's bright spots in the match were Budi Susanto, who forced a third-set tiebreaker at number one against Brent Sitarski before falling 7-5 in the deciding breaker, and Powell, who forced Nick Gryfakis to three sets before losing.

Basketball

Athletes of the Week

Charlie Smilinich scored two runs in the baseball team's 6-2 win over Sacred Heart on Friday. The centerfielder leads the Bulls in hitting at .325 and also tops the club in hits (13), runs (8) and doubles (3). Katie Scott set a school record of 1:01.84 in winning the 400-meter hurdles in the Coastal Carolina University Spring Break Classic. The meet opened the Bulls' outdoor season. Scott broke her own previous school record of 1:02.75 set last season

Women

Junior center Tiffany Bell became the first player in UB women's basketball history to earn a spot on the WBCA Kodak All-American team by making the District 4 team.

Bell is one of only 48 finalists for the most prestigious All-American team in women's basketball by being one of six players named in District 4. Bell, who became just the second UB player in women's basketball history to score more than 1,000 points as a junior, was one of three underclassmen who made the District 4 team, along with Akron's Cheryl Bowles and Tennessee Tech's Janet Holt.

Bell led the Mid-American Conference in scoring at 19.0 points per game and also ranked 10th in the conference in rebounding at 7.9 per game.

The berth on the District 4 team puts Bell on the final WBCA/Kodak ballot for the 10 All-Americans to be selected during the women's Final Four in Philadelphia.

Softball

UB 9, St. Michael 4
UB 13, St. Michael 4
UB 2, North Carolina A&T 1
UB 9, North Carolina 4

UB began its first softball season since 1986 with a spring break trip to Orlando, where the team won its first two contests of the season, sweeping Division II St. Michael's 9-4 and 13-1, as the team pounded out 36 hits.

UB also gained its first victories over Division I competition, sweeping North Carolina A&T 2-1 and 9-4 on March 8.

Baseball

Pittsburgh 10, UB 7
Rhode Island 5, UB 1
UB 6, Sacred Heart 2
Hartford 9, UB 0
Wagner College 2, UB 0

UB picked up a win during its spring trip to Florida, but dropped four games. UB lost to Pittsburgh, 10-7, on March 9. On Friday, the Bulls took a win over Sacred Heart, 6-2, after falling to Rhode Island, 5-1, earlier in the day. The Bulls dropped a game to Hartford, 9-0, on Saturday, and fell to Wagner College, 2-0, later in the day.

Against Pittsburgh, the Bulls trailed but came back late, scoring three runs in the eighth inning to make it 10-5, then added two more runs in the ninth-with bases loaded with one out-before falling 10-7. The Bulls lost despite outhitting the Panthers 15-8. UB stranded 13 runners on base.

In the Friday afternoon game, the Bulls again had a problem with leaving runners on base and fell to Rhode Island 5-1.

The game was tied at 1-1 going into the sixth inning before the Rams scored two unearned runs in the sixth and two more runs in the eighth inning. The Bulls charged back and loaded the bases in the ninth. But Mark Vogel hit a deep fly ball that was caught at the warning track for the last out of the game.

The Bulls picked up a win over Sacred Heart later on Friday, 6-2. Pete Selden picked up the victory on the mound, going 6.1 innings and giving up just four hits after carrying a no-hitter into the sixth inning.

Against Hartford, the Bulls gave up an unearned run in the fourth inning to fall behind. Hartford then exploded for a five-run seventh inning, knocking UB starter Tom Januchowski out of the game.

In their final game in Florida, the Bulls dropped a close contest to Wagner College. The game was scoreless into the fifth, when Wagner scored the first run of the game on a pass ball to take a 1-0 lead. Wagner then added an insurance run in the seventh on an RBI double to make it 2-0.

Wrestling

UB will send three wrestlers to the NCAA Division I Championships, being held today through Saturday in Kiel Center in St. Louis.

Juniors Shawn Kegel (133 pounds) and Josh States (184 pounds), and freshman Joe Downey (197) all finished second at the championships and were voted as wild-card participants to the national tournament.

It was the third straight season that the Bulls, under head coach Jim Beichner and assistant Sean Gibbs, have sent three wrestlers to the national championships.

The Bulls finished in fourth place in the MAC Tournament with 55.5 points and finished the dual meet season with an 11-5 record.