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COLLEGE ROUNDUP (May 16): UB women win 2 MAC titles
Patrice Coney won her second consecutive women’s heptathlon title at the Mid-American Conference Track and Field Championships in Ohio on Friday, giving the University at Buffalo its second MAC title after Vanessa Roelofsen won the women’s javelin championship late Thursday.
Coney, who accumulated 4,990 points to win the heptathlon, also qualified for Saturday’s final in the 100- and 400-meter hurdles races.
Roelofsen won the javelin with a toss of 154 feet, 10 inches.
Baseball
Buffalo 5, Ohio 4 (10 innings)
Brian Randazzo singled home Shivam Bhan for the game-winning run after the Bulls scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to force extra innings.
North Tonawanda native Chaz Mye started for UB, allowing just three runs and striking three in six innings.
The conclude the season at 1 p.m. today. They will honor their seniors, including Tonawanda natives Rick Oliveri and Nick Walczak, prior to the game.
Softball
NU’s Coffey named all-region
Niagara’s Felicia Coffey was selected this week to the 2008 National Fastpitch Coaches Association/Louisville Slugger Northeast All-Region second team.
Coffey, the co-player of the year in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, was won of 233 players national to make either the first or second all-region teams.
Coffey batted .401 for the Purple Eagles this season, setting school records with 69 hits and 42 runs.
• Canisius’ first-round NCAA tournament game against Arizona in Hempstead, N.J. was rained out Friday and will be played at 9:30 a.m. today.
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NCAA TOURNAMENT: Gonzaga trumpets small conference cause as a mid-major player
With a big budget, a 6,000-seat arena that’s nearly impossible to get into, and a string of top national and international recruits, Gonzaga has become the poster child for the emergence of mid-major basketball.
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Falls' Harrison helps Robert Morris into WNIT
It’s not quite a homecoming, but it’s close enough to get Destiny Harrison excited. The Niagara Falls native will be in Olean tonight when her Robert Morris team meets St. Bonaventure in the first round of the women’s National Invitation Tournament.
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MMA: GI’s Weiser heads from field to octagon
Former Grand Island standout and current Buffalo State linebacker Eddie Weiser’s roots run deep when it comes to fighting.
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SABRES: Miller pulled in 4-3 loss to Thrashers
Ryan Miller was pulled after giving up three goals in the first 6 minutes and Jim Slater’s third-period goal gave the Thrashers a 4-3 win over the Northeast-leading Sabres on Tuesday night.
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FOOTBALL: Falls to get semi-pro team
According to numerous reports, Niagara Falls will be the site of an expansion team in the United States Football League, a semi-pro league that currently has teams in Lockport, Buffalo and Lackawanna.
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MEN'S HOCKEY: UAH stuns Niagara in OT to take CHA title
In what might be a fitting finale to a league that never really found continuity or conformity, the last College Hockey America hockey game finished with a surprise and little sense of closure for the home team.
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NCAA TOURNAMENT: Syracuse opens in Buffalo as seedings unfold
Kansas, Kentucky and Duke won their conference tournaments and the top seeding that went with them when the selection committee rolled out its 65-team NCAA tournament bracket Sunday.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL: Next year, Niagara will be in Nelson's hands
Always a gifted passer, Nelson has improved his all-around game since his freshman year, and although he wasn’t one of the five point guards on the 15-member all-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference’s team last year, Lewis predicted he’ll be recognized as one of the league’s best players next year.
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FOOTBALL: Niagara basketball player piques Packers' interest
All those times Tyrone Lewis went flying into the Gallagher Center grandstands, could he have been preparing to take the Lambeau leap?
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BANDITS: Kilgour sets NLL wins record
Niagara-Wheatfield graduate Darris Kilgour became the National Lacrosse League’s all-time winningest coach Friday and added to his record with another victory Saturday.
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