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The Mens Basketball team will battle Holy Cross the next night.� The Red Raider's show a lot of promise, but have not been delivering in recent games, in fact, they have been doing fairly badly.� But they had a week to prepare for the league opener, and they meet one of the league favorites on thier home court to kick it off.� Pat Campolieta reached a career milestone, scoring his 1,000th career point against Cornell.� This feat was first accomplished by Bill Dodd '53, and was most recently completed by Seth Schaeffer '98.
Hats off to Heather Murphy, literally!� The Womens Hockey star recorded not one, but two hat tricks this weekend, as the Red Raiders shelled Trinity and Amherst.�� They move on to face number 8 in the nation, Vermont, this weekend, then they do battle with RPI.� Colgate is currently 3rd in the national rankings.�� We are just 11th in the Pair wise rankings.
And the Mens Hockey team picked up thier 4th victory of the season over Mercyhurst.� Good goaltending bu MU kept things close, and penalties gave us a chance to lose.� Kyle Doyle got things started and finished.� He scored just 25 seconds into the game, then again on an empty net at the end to put things away for the Red Raiders.� Unfortunatly, he allowed himself to be instigated into taking a penalty or two.� It's good to see your players not take any crap, but sometimes, thats not the best idea.�� It's time to return to league action, as we take on both Dartmouth, and UVM this weekend.�� The 40 nominees for the Hobey Baker award are out.� And no Colgate player has made the list.� This is a major insult to Cory Murphy, who was all rookie as a freshman, honorable mention ECAC that year, all league last season, and one of the best defensemen in the league this year.�
Looking ahead to Mens Lacrosse, the league was very well represented in a national preseason poll.� Hobart was picked to finish 14th.� And Army, Bucknell and Lehigh were all ranked between 24 and 31.�
Here's a quick look at the movies.�� If you ever see the hockey classic "Slapshot", keep an eye out for the first road game.� Have a close look at the arena, recognize it?� It's our own Starr rink!� Back before the renovations.� It's not a long scene, but you can definitly make out the home of the Red Raiders.� Also, speaking of Mens Lacrosse.� If you rent the recent hit, "American Pie", and watch the scene at the championship lacrosse game, one of the main charachters, Ox, gets flattened by his opponent.� Now of course, the actor needed a stuntman to take the hit, so they got a Colgate lacrosse alum to stand in for him!� Now unfortunatly, the shot never went quite right, so he had to take the hit many, many times.� But hey, it was an exciting moment.
Thats it for now, the next report will be on Thursday or Friday, and among other things, will include highlights of an e-mail I got from a� person I believe to be the Dartmouth goalie.� The current fanpoll asks about which hockey weekend are you looking foward to the most.� In the past fanpoll, the game against Michigan was voted as the most memorable moment of the fall semester.� Have a good week, see you at the Holy Cross game Tuesday!
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