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Buzzer Beater: the hiring of new head volleyball coach Blair Brown Lipsitz

By Sports Desk | Apr. 9, 2015

On Tuesday night, UB Athletics announced the signing of Blair Brown Lipsitz as the new head coach of the volleyball team - succeeding recently departed head coach Reed Sunahara. The move to find a new coach was evident once Sunahara left, but Athletic Director Danny White has kept a constant trend of his hires in the past two years – former college athletes that excelled in their respective sports.

Junior catcher/outfielder Ashton Earnhardt slides safely into second base. 
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The UB Bulls softball struggle

By BOBBY MCINTOSH | Apr. 7, 2015

Softball head coach Trena Peel describes the first half of the season as “on-the-job training.” The team has a completely new infield after starters graduated last year and the inexperienced team has struggled to win this season.

Quarterbacks Tony Daniel, Collin Michael, Craig Slowik and Chris Merchant stretch during a practice on Wednesday. The team returns Daniel and senior Joe Licata, who is expected to assume the starting position after he recovers from off-season surgery.
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Senior security for UB Bulls quarterbacks

By QUENTIN HAYNES | Apr. 7, 2015

With all the changes to the football team this offseason, the one position the Bulls seem the most set on is one of the most important positions on the field – the quarterback. The Bull’s two senior quarterbacks, Joe Licata and Tony Daniel, will assume their roles of starting and backup quarterbacks, respectively. With two seniors, head coach Lance Leipold said he believes the team is in “good position” at quarterback.

The women’s tennis team originally was supposed to take on Ball State in Muncie, Indiana, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned all “non-essential” public travel to the state.
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Cuomo's Indiana travel ban hits UB

By Jordan Grossman | Apr. 2, 2015

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order banning state-funded travel to Indiana affected UB Wednesday, when the school announced it not only backed the governor, but also wouldn’t send its sports teams to play Ball State in Indiana. The softball team and women’s tennis team won’t play Ball State in Muncie, Indiana this weekend due to Cuomo’s stance on Indiana’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Bulls pitcher Brandon Bentley throws a pitch from the mound. The baseball team own a 7-14 record and 2-4 in the MAC with roughly 30 games to play in the remainder of the season.
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Injuries and youth damper UB Bulls baseball season first half

By QUENTIN HAYNES | Apr. 2, 2015

Before the season started, the baseball team’s head coach Ron Torgalski expected the team would need time to grow. The Bulls were expecting an influx of starting underclassmen in the new lineup. But 21 games and two Mid-American Conference series down, the Bulls are “a bit behind schedule,” according to Torgalski.

After competing in two half marathons, Kelsey Barbour, a cancer survivor and former UB swimmer, plans to run cross country from San Francisco, California to Baltimore, Maryland with 28 college students from various colleges across the country to raise money for cancer awareness.
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UB student and cancer survivor to run across United States

By QUENTIN HAYNES | Mar. 31, 2015

While stricken with cancer her junior year, Kelsey Barbour used running as a mechanism to cope. Now a graduate student, Barbour is set to compete in the “4K for Cancer,” a cross-country relay-style event across the United States which will raise money for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Kids.

Senior outfielder Nick Sinay (pictured) was selected in the 22nd round by the Toronto Blue Jays in the MLB Amateur Draft. 
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UB baseball faces growing pains in series loss to Ball State

By QUENTIN HAYNES | Mar. 29, 2015

On Sunday, the Bulls (6-14, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) concluded a three-game series against Ball State (18-8, 5-1 MAC) with a 16-8 loss, giving the Cardinals the series victory. Buffalo dominated on Saturday with a 14-1 win that included 10 runs in the final inning, but the Bulls still failed to win their second MAC series in as many tries.

Senior pitcher Hayley Barrow and the softball team dropped their first MAC series of the season this weekend. 
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UB softball swept by Kent State to start MAC play

By Jordan Grossman | Mar. 29, 2015

The softball team was in position to win its first game since March 18. During the bottom of the seventh inning of Buffalo’s game against Kent State Saturday, the Bulls trailed by two when freshman infielder Sarah Edwards stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs.

Freshman running back Michael Forman is running through a drill at the first spring practice of the season run by running backs coach Matt Simon, who is one of two coaches that carried over from Jeff Quinn’s staff.
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UB Bulls spring football practice begins

By Jordan Grossman | Mar. 26, 2015

On Wednesday, the Lance Leipold era officially began in Buffalo as the Bulls held their first spring practice under the first-year Division-I head coach and the new staff at the ADPRO Sports Training Center in Orchard Park, New York.

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