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Meunier's MAC supremacySenior Brooke Meunier is going out on top. In the last week of basketball's regular season, Meunier was named the Mid-American Conference East Player of the Week.Meunier, a senior guard on the women's basketball team, averaged 25.5 points while dishing out 5.5 assists, and led the Bulls to two wins last week, en route to clinching a home playoff game in the MAC tournament.On Saturday against Akron, Meunier poured in 28 points in front of friends and family on Senior Day.


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Solid pitching not enough as baseball drop two out of three

Along with their bat bags, gloves and cleats, the baseball team brought home a victory this weekend, but it was accompanied by two losses at the hands of Maryland Eastern Shore.The Bulls split a pair of blowout wins with the Hawks in a doubleheader on Saturday, and dropped the decisive game Sunday.Buffalo lost the first game on Saturday 15-2 and won the second 11-3.


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Bulls drop season finale to Kent State

In their final game of the regular season, women's basketball came out playing timid and suffered a scoring drought from the end of the first half until five minutes into the second half.With the game mattering little in the standings and Buffalo having already clinched a home playoff game, the Bulls lost to the Kent State Golden Flashes on Tuesday by a final score of 73-59.Senior forward Lindsay Shearer, who recorded game highs in points with 24 and rebounds with 13, led Kent State.Bulls senior guard Brooke Meunier, who finished the game -- and her Buffalo regular season career -- with nine points and four rebounds, said that Shearer has been getting better with every time they play."She's definitely gotten better every year," Meunier said.


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Schedule

M. BasketballWednesday: vs. Akron, 7 p.m.M. SwimmingThursday: MAC Championships, all day


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Scoreboard

W. BasketballTuesday:Kent State73Buffalo59


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Lynch claims title at ECAC Championships

For the ninth time in 10 years, Buffalo men's swimming and diving finished in the top 10 at the Eastern College Athletics Conference championships, but the real highlight last weekend was freshman diver Cassidy Lynch, who earned the Diver of the Year title at the University of Pittsburgh meet.The Westminster, Colo., native came away with both the one-meter and three-meter individual diving titles, breaking the school record in the latter event by nearly six points.


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Not-so-true blue

I have one word for the majority of the Mighty Maniacs that wear the blue wigs, wait in line for tickets, and claim to be the best of the best when it comes to being rabid fans: BULL!You have men's basketball spirit, not school spirit.Where were you when the men's soccer team was ranked No.


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Bulls win without threes

When a team lives by the three, as the men's basketball team does, it doesn't usually pull off a victory shooting nine percent from beyond the arc.On Sunday, Buffalo men's basketball overcame shooting 1-for-11 from the three-point line to defeat Bowling Green 81-67 at Alumni Arena.


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Plugging a dam with Scotch tape

The long-sought North Campus health center has come a step closer to reality, with construction for an Ellicott-based office scheduled to begin at the end of May.


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The art of charity

Clad in shiny red boots and a leopard-print headband, Oreen Cohen isn't afraid to be bold.As a UB fine arts major, she likes to experiment with unconventional materials, mixing paint with broken glass, or rubbing dirt all over her canvas.


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"In wake of decision, SA considers reforms as Pelkey pushes on"

Despite a ruling from the Student-wide Judiciary to dismiss all charges without appeal, the case against the Student Association's leadership hasn't quite reached its end.Matthew Pelkey said on Sunday that his Reform Our Campus party is claiming procedural error and plans to file a complaint with the judiciary of improper dismissal.The judiciary's chief justice, William Sherlock, made it clear last week that the motion to end the case was final.


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Scoreboard

M. TennisFriday:Cornell5Buffalo1Friday:WMU7Buffalo0SoftballFriday:Notre Dame1Buffalo0Friday:Buffalo10St.


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Heard in the news:2.27.06

There have been pockets of violence, but we don't see that as a precursor to civil war.-- U.S. Maj.


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Media guru kicks off lecture series

As technology evolves, from video iPods to high-definition digital cameras, it cultivates new advances and changes in the entertainment industry.What exactly does the future hold for television and theater?


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