Sept. 3, 2009

Center Valley, Pa. - Patriot League followers will not have a hard time finding a game to watch on football Saturdays in 2009, as every weekend of the season will feature at least two televised contests involving Patriot League teams on cable and satellite TV. The highlight comes on October 8, when Colgate visits Princeton in a Thursday night contest shown nationally on ESPNU at 7 p.m.

The televised action gets underway on the season's opening weekend, with Central Connecticut State at Lehigh on Service Electric 2 Sports and Monmouth at Colgate on Time Warner Sports Central New York on Saturday. The schedule includes 11 of the 21 Patriot League contests, with each League school appearing in at least one televised game.

Lafayette once again leads the way by televising all 11 of its games. The contests will be broadcast by the Lafayette Sports Network, and shown on RCN's series of cable systems throughout the Northeast, as well as WBPH-TV 60, an independent station servicing all of Eastern Pennsylvania - including Philadelphia -and Western New Jersey. Additional affiliates are also expected to be announced.

Lehigh will have nine of its 11 games televised, with each of the first six Mountain Hawk home contests shown live on Service Electric 2 Sports and via tape delay by Fox College Sports Atlantic (with tape-delayed airings coming on the following Thursday at 8 a.m.). Lehigh's contests at Villanova and Colgate will be shown live by WFMZ-TV Channel 69 in Allentown, Pa. as well as Fox College Sports Atlantic, and via tape delay the following day at 1 p.m. on Fox Sports Net Pittsburgh.

The Lafayette/Lehigh game will be shown live on WFMZ, FCS and FSNP as well as the Lafayette Sports Network.

In addition to its ESPNU contest at Princeton and the home opener against Monmouth, Colgate will have its home games against Lehigh (Oct. 31) and Bucknell (Nov. 14) picked up regionally by Time Warner Sports Central New York.

Holy Cross will have three games shown in its regional market, with home games against Harvard (Sept. 19), Colgate (Oct. 24) and Lafayette (Nov. 14) all shown by WCTR-TV3 in Central Massachusetts.

In addition to the televised games, most Patriot League football games can be followed through streaming, radio, and/or live stats coverage. For links to additional coverage for each Patriot League game in the opening week, and throughout the season, go to the Patriot League 2009 Football Composite Schedule

To view the complete television schedule for all Patriot League sports, click here or go to the multimedia link at the front page of www.patriotleague.org

Six of the seven Patriot League teams open the season Saturday, with Georgetown at Holy Cross in the League opener at 1 p.m.