NEC Football Week Two: 2008 Kicks Off Into Full Swing

CCSU's James Mallory   Four teams wet the appetites of NEC football fans when they kicked off their seasons last Saturday, but this weekend will send the 2008 campaign into full swing. Seven of the conference’s eight teams are in action with defending NEC champion Albany idle after its near upset of No. 5 Massachusetts in the opener. Robert Morris, Saint Francis (PA), Wagner, and Duquesne take the field for the first time this season with the DU Dukes playing their first contest as a NEC member. Due to severe weather advisories through the region, Sacred Heart has moved the start time of its game with Bentley up to 1:00 pm on Saturday afternoon. The Pioneers were scheduled to play their second straight game under the new lights at Campus Field where they doubled up Assumption last week.

Northeast Conference Establishes Intercollegiate Women’s Bowling League

The Northeast Conference has announced the formation of a women's bowling league that will begin intercollegiate competition this upcoming November. The newly-established bowling conference encompasses seven institutions, four of which are core members of the NEC.  Fairleigh Dickinson, St. Francis (NY), Sacred Heart, and Long Island will welcome three associate members - Saint Peter's, Adelphi, and Kutztown - into the league for its inaugural 2008-09 season. Five of the seven institutions, excluding Long Island and Kutztown, formerly competed in the North East Women's Collegiate Bowling Conference. Two programs in their infancy, Kutztown was unattached during the 2007-08 season, its first as a program, and Long Island recently founded its program this past winter.

Northeast Conference Announces 2008 Football Television Package

The Northeast Conference revealed its plans to televise two league football games during its 13th season on the gridiron.  The annual television package kicks off in grand fashion when the first-year member Duquesne Dukes take on the five-time NEC champion Robert Morris Colonials in a battle for Pittsburgh's Division I FCS bragging rights. Head coach Jerry Schmitt, who leads Duquesne into its inaugural NEC season after the program captured 11 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference crowns, and the Dukes will make the short trip to Robert Morris' Joe Walton Stadium on Saturday, October 11. FSN-Pittsburgh will begin its live broadcast at 12:00 pm with Fox College Sports-Pacific also airing the live feed.  The other featured game will unfold on Halloween night under the newly-installed lights at Sacred Heart's Campus Field. Long-time Wagner head coach Walt Hameline puts his Seahawks up against Paul Gorham's Pioneers on Friday, October 31 at 7:00 pm on both MSG-Plus and Fox College Sports-Atlantic.

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