The Canisius swimming and diving teams fell in a dual-meet on Thursday afternoon to Big-Four Rival University at Buffalo. The meet was held at Alumni Arena in Amherst, N.Y.

Despite the dual-meet loss to the Bulls, the Golden Griffins had quite a few strong individual and relay performances on both the men's and women's teams.

The women's 400-yard freestyle relay team, which consisted of Katelyn Battaglia, Meghan Tyler, Alex Doody and Natalie Ryan, finished first with a time of 3:39.02. Along with being part of the first place finishing relay team, Doody finished first in the 500-yard freestyle and Ryan finished second with times of 5:27.56 and 5:40.38. Marissa Watroba also recorded a victory for the Blue and Gold, finishing with a time of 2:29.32 in the 200-yard breaststroke.

The men's team also finished first in the 400-yard freestyle relay, as the team of Christian Westermeier, Dan Dirrgil, Nick Sereday and Tommy Kirch recorded a time of 3:14.44, just under three seconds better than the second place finishing Canisius squad. Sean Wurster (4:48.92), Spencer Bray (4:49.27) and Michael Berg (5:06.43) recorded a first, second and third place finish in the 500-yard freestyle event and Sam Hansen (2:11.74), Wyatt Sintay (2:12.31) and Austin Hill (2:22.17) also recorded a 1-2-3 finish in the 200-yard breaststroke.

In the diving portion of today's meet, seniors Eddie Quarantillo and Taylor Epstein each put on a strong performance on the board. Quarantillo finished second in the 3-meter diving with a score of 281.70 and Epstein finished second in the 1-meter diving event with a score of 217.95.

This was the last meet before winter break for the Golden Griffins. Canisius will swim again on January 5, when the team takes on St. Vincent College in Florida.