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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Lehigh opens out west
Looks like the Lehigh Mountain Hawks will open their season in the BCA Classic at Oregon this year. According to a release on Portland State's Web site, the Mountain Hawks will join Cal State Northridge, Portland State and the host Ducks for the Nov. 10-12 tournament.

This is an interesting field of rebuilding teams. Oregon finished last season at 15-18, a loss to Portland State among the 18 setbacks. The Ducks should be improved, though, with six of their top seven scorers back, and a transfer from Xavier and a medical redshirt joining the team, in addition to incoming recruits.

Portland State returns four starters from a team that went 12-16 in coach Ken Boone's first season. Cal State Northridge adds four junior college transfers to a roster that lost only one senior after last year's 11-17 club. Four of five starters are back, and all of the Matadors top seven scorers.

Lehigh, of course, finished 19-12. But the Mountain Hawks were just 6-8 against D-I foes before Joe Knight returned to the lineup in January. Knight, and three other seniors who started a combined 58 games last season, have departed via graduation.
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