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Saturday, December 30, 2006
Another busy Saturday
It's the last five-game day of the season for Patriot League teams as non-conference play begins to wind down in anticipation of next week's conference openers.

For Lafayette and Bucknell, this will be their final non-conference tune-ups. The Leopards are at San Diego State (matchup), taking on an Aztecs team that is 10-3 despite turnover problems, while Bucknell tries to salvage its visit to Poughkeepsie with a win over 3-8 Northern Illinois in the Marist Classic consolation game (matchup).

American, which beat Longwood handily at home back on Dec. 4, tries for a season sweep in an unusual non-conference home and home series when it visits the Lancers in a 3 p.m. start (matchup). Yale, 1-2 against Patriot League teams, looks to even that record when it visits Navy (matchup).

In the day's other game, Holy Cross will try to bounce back from Friday's loss to Niagara when it meets suddenly hot Delaware (matchup) in the finale of their three-game LaSalle Invitational adventure. The Blue Hens were 0-9 when they arrived Thursday in Philly for the round robin event. Now they are 2-9 after beating Niagara in the first round Thursday and the host Explorers Friday.

This will be a real test for the short-handed, leg-weary Crusaders who are 1-4 in games in which they have one day or less to prepare.

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