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Ice Arena to host Buffalo Sabres alumni game

  The Buffalo Sabres Alumni Association will hold a charity hockey game featuring the Buffalo Sabres Alumni team at the Buffalo State Ice Arena at 3 p.m. Sunday. Rob Ray and other retired former members of the Buffalo Sabres will be on hand to participate in a game against employees […]

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Bengals use spring trip to Florida to prepare for upcoming season

  Buffalo State’s softball team took a trip to Clermont, Fla., over spring break to open their 2012 season.   The Bengals, who split the week, winning five of the 10 games played over the trip, felt that they could have had better results than what they ended up with. […]

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With Hollander at helm, softball flourishes

  Sandra Hollander didn’t come to Buffalo State with the idea of leading the Bengals’ softball team to multiple SUNYAC championships. In fact, she hadn’t even considered the possibility of coaching the softball team upon her arrival to the college.   Hollander, who has led the Bengals to three SUNYAC […]

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Lacrosse team moves to 3-0

  The Buffalo State women’s lacrosse team is off to a perfect start to its season.   The Bengals won a pair of home games last week, defeating Roberts Wesleyan, 18-11, Thursday while holding off St. John Fisher, 13-12, Tuesday en route to improving its record to 3-0.   Against […]

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Bills to make splash in free agency

  The Buffalo Bills started the 2011 season by winning five of their first seven games and had the whole city believing that this might be the first time since the Music City Miracle that the Bills would make the playoffs.   However, the Bills disappointed their fans and finished […]

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Breaking down March Madness

  It’s March, which means college basketball’s March Madness tournament tips off Thursday night in one of the major events of the sports year. Even with multiple dominant teams, don’t look for an easy tournament.   On Sunday, Syracuse, North Carolina, Michigan State and Kentucky were given the four No. […]

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Buffalo State hosts arena’s best hoopsters

  Over the past two weeks, Western New York’s top boys high school basketball players have been competing at Buffalo State’s Sports Arena in sectional and regional play.   Starting Feb. 27 with the Section VI (Buffalo area) semifinals and culminating with this past Saturday’s Far West Regional Championships between […]

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Dunham named All-American after Nationals

  GRINNEL, LA. – The NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships at Grinnell College did not go as well as the three women participating for Buffalo State had hoped, but one Bengal was able to produce an All-American award.   The national championships, held over the weekend, concluded […]

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Men’s hockey hits all-time high

  Buffalo State’s men’s hockey team first took the ice in the winter of 1993. Nine years later, the Bengals made their first SUNYAC playoff appearance. Now, following its 2011-12 season, the program has never been better.   The Bengals set the school record for most wins in a season […]

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Henry named athlete of year

  Despite taking the road less traveled to Buffalo State and battling a nagging injury, Sasha Henry persevered this season to become one of the top Division III athletes in women’s track and field.   The junior sprinter was recently named the SUNYAC Women’s Outstanding Indoor Track Athlete of the […]