October 23, 1997-Vol29n09: Sports

VOLUME 29, NUMBER 9

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1997

Sports

Volleyball

Women's

UB 0, West Virginia 3
The Bulls lost Oct. 18 at West Virginia in three games, 15-8, 15-9, 15-9, to break an eight-game winning streak. Junior Aprille Sweeting led the way for the Bulls with six kills and six digs and sophomore Somer Deschambault contributed 20 assists in the match. Buffalo fell to 11-12 for the season and remains at 3-0 in the Mid-Continent Conference.

Soccer

Women's

UB 0, Pittsburgh 1 UB 0, Niagara University 1 The Bulls went 0-2 this weekend with losses at Pittsburgh and against Niagara at home. On Oct. 17, the Bulls lost 1-0 on a penalty kick by Pitt's Megan Beasley at 98:22 in the game. On Oct. 19 the Bulls returned home to RAC field, only to lose to Niagara University, 1-0. Although the Bulls outshot the Purple Eagles

16-5 in the game, they were unable to put the ball in the net.

Following a scoreless first half, action was spirited in the second, with both teams having excellent scoring opportunities. Finally, at 84:55, Niagara slipped the ball past UB goalkeeper Jaime Adams and into the left side of the net after she had come out to play the ball.

Cross Country

The women's team finished ninth out of 15 teams with a total of 227 points in the 5,000-meter ECAC Championships held Oct. 18 at Van Cortland Park. Senior Karen Lilly finished out front for the Bulls at 21st overall with a time of 18:47.

Senior Patrick Nolan finished 18th in the IC4A 8,000-meter run with a time of 26:21. The men finished 12th overall in the championships with a total of 298 points.

Football

UB 20, University of Massachusetts 26 The University of Massachusetts gave up a school-record 459 yards passing, but came up with two key fourth-quarter interceptions to defeat the Bulls, 26-20, on Oct. 18 at UB Stadium.

The Bulls had pulled to within 26-20 when Chad Salisbury-who completed 30-of-51 passes for 459 yards and three touchdowns-hit split end Drew Haddad with an 11-yard TD pass with 6:04 left. Haddad was one of three UB players to go over 100 yards receiving in the game with a career-high 11 catches for 147 yards.

The 459 yards passing by the Bulls were the most the Minutemen have given up in their 114-year football history. Kali Watkins added nine catches for 128 yards and Jamie Gasparre had six catches for 144 yards and two touchdowns (48 and 63 yards) for UB.

"We reverted in the second half to having mistakes snowball on us," said UB head coach Craig Cirbus. "We have been relying so much on the pass, but today is an example of what happens when you create a personality. When you become that biased in your play selection and you become that reliant on one part of the game those things will happen, you're going to get turnovers."

-Andrew Punzal, Assistant Sports Information Director