The Spectrum's sports desk recaps this weekend's highlights in men's and women's tennis, softball and baseball.
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.
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.
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.
The Bulls will lose three graduating senior offensive linemen. Andre Davis, Jake Silas and Trevor Sales made up the left side of the offensive line in 2014. The team plans to fill that void with a combination of experienced seniors and underclassmen that are “hungry” for the position, according to Agpalsa.
Entering the halfway point of the regular season, the Bulls stand with a record of 7-14 overall and 2-4 in the Mid-American Conference. Injuries to key position players throughout the season have plagued the team all year and are a factor in the Bulls’ slow start.
The softball team and women’s tennis team will not play Ball State in Indiana this weekend due to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ban of New York State-funded travel to Indiana.
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.
The Spectrum breaks down this week in UB sports, including men's and women's tennis, men's basketball and softball.
Bobby Hurley announced on Colin Cowherd’s ESPN Radio show, “The Herd,” that he will return as Buffalo’s men’s head basketball coach next season.
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.
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.
Despite her talent, Megan Burns wasn’t planning on swimming after high school until she found passion and fun in UB's swimming and diving team.
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.
With the men’s basketball team 2013-14 season finished, it’s time to look ahead. If the Bulls are to make another run at a Mid-American Conference championship and NCAA tournament appearance, they are going to have to replace the talent they lost. Bobby Hurley can help with this.
The Top Ten moments in UB sports the past two weeks.
Following the Bulls' first visit to the NCAA Tournament, will Hurley stay or will he go?
UB Athletics is ready to make men’s basketball coach Bobby Hurley the highest paid coach in the Mid-American Conference.
Despite playing in a Mid-Major conference and having a small amount of success throughout its Division I history, UB Athletics has said it’s building “America’s next big-time college athletics brand” for the past two years under the New York Bulls Initiative or #NYBI. After the men’s basketball team’s historic season, maybe it’s finally on its way to doing it.
Women’s tennis (5-7, 1-1 Mid-American Conference) The women’s tennis team earned its first MAC victory over Easter Michigan (5-10, 1-1 MAC) this past Sunday at the Miller Tennis Center.
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