Busy night for Patriot League teams
Patriot League teams were busy Tuesday night, playing five games (and winning four) out of conference.
While the teams were busy, the writers covering them were less so. We will check back later to see if we can find more. Meanwhile, here's a wrap:
American 70, Wagner 49 -- The Eagles pick up their first win of the season behind Andre Ingram’s 17 points. (Your basic AP story from the Washington Post and a box score.
Navy 69, Merchants Marine 60 -- Navy buys a win for its home opener. Who even knew the Merchant Marines played hoops? Apparently nobody. We don't like linking to school's official sites (other than for the box score, but apparently nobody else cared about covering this one.
Update -- The Annapolis Capital was there. They just do not update ther Web site until after noon. Anyhow, Don Devoe might be gone, but those Naval Prep "redshirt" freshmen still keep coming out of the woodwork in Annapolis. One of them, 6-1 guard Corey Johnson led the Mids in scoring for the second straight game with 21 points.
Holy Cross 60, Harvard 52 -- Defense gets it done for the Crusaders, who shot 36 percent from the field and hit 3-of-19 from the arc. HC forced 26 turnovers and held Harvard to 22 points (BOX) in the second half. Where is the Boston Globe’s story? Who knows, but we found coverage in The Herald.
As usual, the Worcester Telegram-Gazette had a good story. But the T-G requires subscriptions for its Web site, We will see if we can make some sort of arrangement to link since I do a lot of freelance stuff for them. In the meantime, we'll exercise the fair use doctrine to post a couple excepts from Bill Doyle’s story:
St. Peter’s 81, Lafayette 64 -- What a difference a year makes. Last season, Lafayette held St. Peter’s scoreless in the last 1:37 of the game for a 74-71 win. Last night, though, the Peacocks put four players in double figures (BOX SCORE) and routed the Leopards. No coverage in either of the Lehigh Valley papers, but the venerable Jersey Journal did cover the game.
Colgate 70, Cornell 56 -- The Syracuse Post-Standard had a nice preview of the game yesterday, then no coverage today. Go figure. The Ithaca Journal barely did better, posting the SID’s report. I realize this is not a huge game, but what in the world could the sports staff of the Ithaca paper have had better to do on a Tuesday night? Oh yeah, we did find a box score.
While the teams were busy, the writers covering them were less so. We will check back later to see if we can find more. Meanwhile, here's a wrap:
American 70, Wagner 49 -- The Eagles pick up their first win of the season behind Andre Ingram’s 17 points. (Your basic AP story from the Washington Post and a box score.
Navy 69, Merchants Marine 60 -- Navy buys a win for its home opener. Who even knew the Merchant Marines played hoops? Apparently nobody. We don't like linking to school's official sites (other than for the box score, but apparently nobody else cared about covering this one.
Update -- The Annapolis Capital was there. They just do not update ther Web site until after noon. Anyhow, Don Devoe might be gone, but those Naval Prep "redshirt" freshmen still keep coming out of the woodwork in Annapolis. One of them, 6-1 guard Corey Johnson led the Mids in scoring for the second straight game with 21 points.
Holy Cross 60, Harvard 52 -- Defense gets it done for the Crusaders, who shot 36 percent from the field and hit 3-of-19 from the arc. HC forced 26 turnovers and held Harvard to 22 points (BOX) in the second half. Where is the Boston Globe’s story? Who knows, but we found coverage in The Herald.
As usual, the Worcester Telegram-Gazette had a good story. But the T-G requires subscriptions for its Web site, We will see if we can make some sort of arrangement to link since I do a lot of freelance stuff for them. In the meantime, we'll exercise the fair use doctrine to post a couple excepts from Bill Doyle’s story:
Once again, the Crusaders turned up their defense in the second half. HC limited Harvard to only 12 second-half points until the Crimson scored 10 in the final minute. . . .
"That's as good of a defensive half as we've played in a couple of years," HC coach Ralph Willard said. "You could see the look in their eyes. That's the one thing we were missing last year. We wouldn't have won this game last year on the road. We may have won it at home, but we wouldn't have won it here. Same thing with (the) BU (game). The team is maturing." . . .
For the first time in 16 years, HC has played its first two games on the road and won them both. Last year, HC was only 4-9 away from home. The Crusaders play their home opener Sunday night against Marist. . . .
Harvard actually shot a much higher percentage than HC, 42.6 percent to 35.9 percent, but the Crimson committed 11 more turnovers, so the Crusaders were able to take 17 more shots. Harvard's 26 turnovers turned into 25 HC points . . .
The Crusaders' defense didn't allow a single fast-break point and was so tough, they lost only two points off their lead while suffering through a scoreless drought of 3:21 late in the game.
St. Peter’s 81, Lafayette 64 -- What a difference a year makes. Last season, Lafayette held St. Peter’s scoreless in the last 1:37 of the game for a 74-71 win. Last night, though, the Peacocks put four players in double figures (BOX SCORE) and routed the Leopards. No coverage in either of the Lehigh Valley papers, but the venerable Jersey Journal did cover the game.
Colgate 70, Cornell 56 -- The Syracuse Post-Standard had a nice preview of the game yesterday, then no coverage today. Go figure. The Ithaca Journal barely did better, posting the SID’s report. I realize this is not a huge game, but what in the world could the sports staff of the Ithaca paper have had better to do on a Tuesday night? Oh yeah, we did find a box score.
