The game
turned on several special teams' plays in the second and third quarter.
Trailing 14-7 late in the second quarter, UB (1-4) saw an impressive
10-play drive in the final minutes of the first half end with a 32-yard
missed field goal by sophomore Dallas Pelz with just 23 seconds left
in the half.
After Miami
extended its lead to 17-7 on a 34-yard field goal by Jared Parseghian,
The RedHawks' punt returner Eddie Tillitz wove his way 80 yards on an
ensuing UB punt to put his team ahead 24-7.
That sequence
set up a third quarter in which the RedHawks gained the momentum, outgaining
UB 136 to -7 yards.
Soccer
Men's
UB 3, Marshall 2
Senior
Bill Norberg scored two goals off back-to-back direct kicks 50 seconds
apart to lead the men's soccer team to a 3-2 victory over Marshall in
MAC action Friday night. The loss was just the second of the season
for Marshall, who came into the game ranked 23rd in the last National
Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Top 25 poll. The Bulls
improved to 4-4-1 overall and 1-2 in the MAC.
Women's
UB 2, Northern Illinous 1
UB 3, Western Michigan 1
Junior
Elizabeth Pfeffer scored with 4:32 left in regulation to give the women's
soccer team a 2-1 victory over Northern Illinois in MAC action Friday
night.
Later in
the weekend, Paula Sinclair—playing in her final regular season MAC
home game of her career—made it count as she scored her fifth and sixth
goals of the season to lead the Bulls to a 3-1 victory over Western
Michigan. With the win, UB remains on top of the MAC standings with
a 6-2 conference mark.
Volleyball
UB 3, Niagara 2
Bowling Green 3, UB 2
Miami 3, UB 1
Sophomore
Lindsay Matikosh posted her fifth double-double of the year with a career-high
26 kills and a team-high 16 digs to lead the volleyball team to its
third win of the season at Niagara to begin the week. The Bulls won
the five-game marathon (32-30, 32-30, 27-30, 22-30, 15-9) in two hours
and 15 minutes.
Sophomore
Alexis Bouie recorded a career-high 17 kills and the Bulls fought back
from a 2-0 deficit to force a fifth game, but the Falcons of Bowling
Green prevailed in the end in MAC volleyball action in Alumni Arena
on Friday.
In action
on Sunday, three Bulls posted double figures in kills as Matikosh and
senior Larissa LaCour both recorded double-doubles, but UB dropped a
3-1 decision (30-25, 25-30, 30-27, 30-21) to visiting Miami University
in Alumni Arena.
Cross
Country
The men's
and women's cross country teams turned in strong races at the 28th Annual
Lehigh University Paul Short Run on Saturday. The men finished 10th
among 39 schools with 310 points, while the women placed 16th among
the 39-team field with 481 points. Penn State won both the men's and
women's titles with 66 and 109 points, respectively.
Individually,
Todd Ludden led the Bulls with his 18th-place finish among the 274 men's
runners. Ludden finished the eight kilometer course in a season-best
time of 25:15.29. Ludden has been UB's top finisher in its three meets
this season.
In the
women's race, contested at six kilometers rather than the typical five,
Melissa Burrows finished 47th among 269 runners in 22:28.48.
Tennis
Women's
The women's
tennis team participated in the New York State Women's Collegiate Championship
last weekend. The two-day event was a no-repeat tournament.
Freshman
Michaela Kollarova won the second singles championship with a 6-3, 6-0
win over Dowling's Jackie Legnon. Freshman Sheri Ugowski was defeated
by Legnon in the quarterfinals, 6-1, 7-5. Seniors Shani Amarasinghe
and Jennifer Wong were defeated in the semifinals of the doubles draw
by Binghamton University's Amy Weissberg and Alexis Brill, 8-5.
Crew
Women's
The women's
crew squad started its fall season at Pittsburgh's Head of the Ohio
Regatta. The Bulls' lightweight four crew—coxswain Sarah Wold and
rowers Karey Smollar, Victoria Kolomiets, Courtney Kane and Becky Mohr—won
a silver medal in the competition with a second-place finish out of
18 teams.
