Bulls drop 3 of 4 to Marshall

Bryan Sanchez hit a two-run homer in the top of the ninth to cap a rally that saw UB score 12 runs in the final three innings and take a 15-14 win over Marshall on Friday. The win was the UB baseball squad's first as members of the MAC.

The Bulls hit four home runs in the contest, as many as they had hit in their first 14 games of the year. Mike Flaherty hit two round-trippers, including a seventh-inning grand slam to spark the UB's rally. Flaherty finished with a career-high seven RBIs. Brandon DiCesare also homered for the Bulls, a three-run shot down the left-field line in the eighth to tie the contest at 13-13.

UB collected 18 hits in the contest.

Unfortunately, that was the only win the Bulls could muster as they dropped three wild contests to the Thundering Herd to complete the weekend series. Marshall took a doubleheader on Saturday, 10-2 and 22-8, and finished with a 13-10 decision in Sunday's finale.

Eric Huber went 8-for-18 in the four-game series, scoring four runs. Huber is riding a 10-game hitting streak and leads the Bulls with a .441 batting average.

Poor weather forced the postponement of the scheduled home opener March 21 against Niagara. No makeup date has been announced.

Softball

Bulls swept at Kent State

UB began its first Mid-American Conference season on Friday, dropping both games of a doubleheader at Kent State, 1-0 and 4-1.

In the opener, the Golden Flashes scored the only run of the game in the bottom of the first inning and were able to hold on for the victory by limiting the Bulls to just two hits.

In the nightcap, Kent State put two runs across the plate in the third and fifth innings, while sophomore Jennifer Moore drove in freshman Breanne Nasti with UB's lone run of the game in the fourth inning. Moore was 2-for-3 with an RBI, while Nasti was 2-for-2 with a double-her 11th of the season-and one run scored to lead the Bulls attack. Freshman Heather Robbins struck out four while going the distance on the mound.

The Bulls also dropped the series finale at Kent State, 5-3, Saturday afternoon, after giving up an early three-run lead.

Athletes of the Week

Eric Huber of the baseball team went 8-for-18 in UB's four-game Mid-American Conference opening series at Marshall. Huber also scored four runs over the weekend, including a pair in the Bulls' come-from-behind 15-14 win on Friday. Huber leads the Bulls in hitting at .441 and is riding a 10-game hitting streak. Biaunca McFarland of the track-and-field team broke her own school record in the triple jump, taking seventh place in a 33-athlete field with a leap of 39-7.75 (12.08m) at the Alabama Relays. McFarland's jump was 7.5 inches better than her previous record set last season at the MAC Championships at UB. She also placed 22nd among 67 runners in the 400 meters with a 57.63 clocking.

Tennis

Men's

Bowling Green 6, UB 1
UB 4, Temple 3
St. Bonaventure 5, UB 2

UB ended its quest for a perfect season last weekend with losses to Bowling Green and St. Bonaventure. However, the Bulls picked up a victory against Temple and improved their record to 11-2, 0-1 in the MAC.

In the Bulls' first MAC match of the season, the Bowling Green Falcons swept the singles matches and claimed the doubles point with two wins, at second and third doubles.

Senior Budi Susanto and sophomore Fery Kasiman pulled out a 9-8 victory for UB over Vitek Wild and Peter Gardouyi at first doubles. Wild defeated Susanto 6-2, 7-5 at first singles, while Kasiman lost a three-set match to Nick Woxley, 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 falling 12-10 in the third-set tiebreaker.

Junior captain Justin Brtko and senior Dave Emihovich fell to the Falcons' duo at second doubles, 8-1. Brtko lost in his third-singles matchup, 6-3, 6-2, while Emihovich lost at fifth singles, 6-2, 6-1, to Micael Lopez Acevado.

The Bulls rebounded with a win over the Temple Owls, taking four of the six singles matches and one doubles match for the 4-3 victory.

But in their third match of the weekend, the Bulls dropped a 5-2 decision to the Bonnies.

Women's

Ball State 7, UB 0
Bowling Green 7, UB 0

UB started its spring season with a pair of MAC losses over the weekend. The Bulls, who notched 7-0 losses to Ball State and Bowling Green, are 2-8 on the season and 0-2 in MAC matches.

The weekend road trip started with a 7-0 defeat at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. The first-doubles duo of sophomore Karen Maynard and junior Shani Amarasinghe was defeated, 8-0, by Libby Gerding and Melissa Roach. In singles competition, Gerding defeated Maynard, 6-3, 6-0, while Roach defeated Amarasinghe, 6-0, 6-0.

At second doubles, Susie Miller and Shareen Korving defeated junior Anne Schule and freshman Lisa Wittman, 8-1. Schule also lost her singles match, 6-0, 6-0, to Korving.

The Bulls saw much of the same against Bowling Green on Sunday. At first singles, Maynard lost to Abby Bratton, 6-2, 6-3. At second singles, Amarasinghe was defeated, 6-0, 6-0, by Erika Wasilewski. At first doubles, Maynard and Amarasinghe suffered an 8-1 loss to Bratton and Wasilewski.

Crew

High water cancels invitational