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WEST POINT, N.Y. -- The Navy women's basketball team gave a new meaning to winning ugly in surviving with a 60-59 victory over Colgate in the opening round of the Patriot League tournament yesterday.The Midshipmen (16-10), who suffered through scoring droughts of five and seven minutes, blew an 11-point lead early in the second half and trailed 47-33 with six minutes left.But Navy's strong inside combination of junior forward Erica Hayes, who crammed nine of her team-high 21 points into the final 5: 50, and senior center Laurie Coffey (16 points, 12 rebounds)

HAMILTON, N.Y. -- There were different expectations. And it was a different game, too.But in the end, with a possible NCAA Division I-AA playoff berth at stake, it was the same old story when the Towson football team visited Colgate yesterday and left with a 38-14 loss at Andy Kerr Stadium. It was the fourth blowout loss to the Red Raiders in four meetings between the teams.While playing itself within one win of a Patriot League co-championship this season, Towson, which finished its season at 7-4, 4-2, had proved a worthy peer of the six other members.

Colgate Salsbury, a professional actor whose career spanned Broadway and Hollywood, died Thursday of cancer at his Stevenson home. He was 63.Mr. Salsbury, a Manhattan native known as "Gate," starred as Daniel Berrigan in the original 1970 Broadway production of "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine." Most recently, he appeared as the rector in John Waters' film "Serial Mom.""He had one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard in my life," said Mr. Waters.Standing just over 6 feet tall, he had a commanding voice and a compelling stage presence.

Tulane (3-6) at Navy (3-6)Site: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, AnnapolisTime: NoonRadio: WNAV (1430 AM), WJFK (1300 AM), WMAL (630 AM)Series: Tulane leads 7-4-1Outlook: Two teams having similar seasons clash in the Midshipmen's final home game. Thirty departing Navy seniors will be saluted and the team hopes to send them off with a victory that will keep alive the possibility of a .500 season. Navy has lost its past five at this site, while Tulane has dropped three straight overall and is 0-5 on the road.

Greg Patchak and Adam Dretler each had four goals as second-ranked Duke blasted No. 14 Butler, 20-5, yesterday in the season opener for both teams in Chapel Hill, N.C.The Blue Devils reeled off seven goals in the final 7: 31 of the first period to take a 7-1 lead, then scored five more to take a 12-1 halftime margin.Mike Regan's three goals led Butler, which was outshot 54-28 and lost 25 of 29 faceoffs.No. 12 North Carolina 18, Colgate 8: Matt Crofton had five goals and an assist as the host Tar Heels rallied from an early deficit for a season-opening win.Pub Date: 2/27/99

Emmitt Davis served 12 years as an assistant to Navy coach Don DeVoe and learned his lessons all too well.Now the new head coach at Colgate, Davis was giving DeVoe heart palpitations in their first encounter in Annapolis last night. His youthful Red Raiders led Navy by four points with 1: 49 remaining.But as the Midshipmen have done so often this season, they found a way to win. A steal and a layup by team captain Skip Victor with 14 seconds left gave Navy an emotion-packed 56-54 victory.

All signs indicated this was the year Navy's women's soccer team would win its first Patriot League title.The Midshipmen had posted a 17-2-1 record, outscored the opposition, 51-11, and gone unbeaten in league play (5-0-1). They entered the championship game with Colgate yesterday with nine wins and a tie in their last 10 games. What's more, the Mids had won their regular-season meeting with the Red Raiders Sept. 12, 2-1.But a chilled crowd of several hundred fans at Dewey Field, which is on a site along the Severn River, found out why Colgate has dominated the league, competing in all eight championship games.

When Colgate men's basketball coach Jack Bruen died three weeks ago, he left a legacy for his staff, players and friends that far exceeded his ability to draw X's and O's and turn losing programs into winners.The season was only seven games old when Bruen, a beet-faced bear of man with a bulging belt line and a biting wit, succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 48.But the lessons in life he taught to longtime assistant Paul Aiello, who replaced him, and to his players, past and present, won't soon be forgotten.

Yesterday, Towson coach Gordy Combs wanted to see evidence of strides his team had made since last year. Colgate quarterback Matt Policare hoped not to mess anything up while subbing for the regular, Ryan Vena.The two saw the simple wishes granted before 2,012 at Minnegan Stadium during a 35-14 Colgate victory in the Patriot League opener.Policare, thrust into the starting role when Vena separated a shoulder against Connecticut, did fine, completing 10 of 17 passes for 160 yards and leading a 470-yard total offensive effort that included 246 yards rushing and 25 first downs.

Mount St. Mary's opened its women's basketball season with an 85-54 loss to the hosts in the first round of the Florida International University Tip-Off Classic last night in Miami.The game marked the head coaching debut of the Mountaineers' Vanessa Blair.Kia Williams scored 21 points and Megan Gardiner 17 for the Mountaineers.Western Kentucky defeated Howard in the other first-round game, 89-66. The Mountaineers face the Lady Toppers in tomorrow's second round.Colgate 69, UMES 57: Megan Gibbons had 17 points and 11 rebounds as the Red Raiders (1-0)

Colgate (14-4) @ No. 2 Maryland (19-0) What: NCAA women's lacrosse tournament first round Where: Maryland Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex, College Park When: Sunday, noon Outlook: In their 20th straight appearance in the NCAA tournament, the Terrapins draw a team they have never played - the Patriot League champ, which won its tournament final, 17-4, over Navy. Maryland, which has a record 10 national women's lacrosse titles, is one of only two unbeaten teams in the draw, along with four-time defending champion Northwestern.

Freshman Dani Vivonetto scored three goals for the Navy women's lacrosse team, but they weren't enough as the Midshipmen fell to visiting Colgate, 10-4. The Raiders outscored Navy 6-1 in the first half and used stifling defense to maintain the lead. Erin Rawlick (C. Milton Wright) extended her scoring streak to 26 games with a second-quarter goal for the Mids (6-3, 2-1 Patriot League), who lost their second straight. Colgate (9-3, 3-0) has won seven of eight. "We have a lot of respect for Colgate," Navy coach Cindy Timchal said.

Tonight marks an anniversary the Navy men's basketball team would just as soon forget. It was March 4, 2001, that the Midshipmen last won a basketball playoff game. Seven times since, they have exited early from the Patriot League tournament. Navy (19-10) hopes to end that streak tonight against Colgate in the quarterfinals at Alumni Hall (7 p.m.). Navy is one of three Division I teams in the state, not counting Maryland, expected to have a legitimate chance to win an NCAA tournament berth.

The prospect of an NCAA tournament final has taken a back seat to another type of final for the Colgate and Canisius men's lacrosse teams. Players of both programs have been wrapping up a week of exams, and after hours of studying, memorizing and writing, the idea of ridding their angst and stress in an NCAA tournament first-round game sounds awfully appetizing. "It's exam week here at Colgate, so everyone's nerves are already high," said Raiders junior defenseman Andrew Watkins, a Timonium native and Gilman graduate.

HAMILTON, N.Y. -- The Navy men's basketball team entered this snowy town on a six-game winning streak and tied for the Patriot League lead. No. 7 would have clinched the Patriot League regular-season title and home-court advantage in the conference tournament. But yesterday's 73-62 loss to Colgate - coupled with American's victory over Lafayette - means the Midshipmen (16-13, 9-5) will enter the tournament as the No. 2 seed. "I felt we played a great game," Navy coach Billy Lange said.

Hamilton, N.Y. -- Before the 2007 season, Towson and Colgate played eight times. Eight times, Towson fell short. On a rainy afternoon in front of 5,227 at Andy Kerr Stadium, the ninth time was no charm, as the uneven Tigers (3-5, 1-4 Colonial Athletic Association) fell, 27-17, to their out-of-conference rivals. With quarterback Sean Schaefer's two first-half interceptions, Towson was unable to spark an effective passing attack, and it was left to the tailback tandem of Nick Williams and Rasheed McClaude to carry the load.

Discount stores in Maryland and three other states sold toothpaste falsely packaged as Colgate and spiked with a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze, federal health officials said yesterday. The Food and Drug Administration is investigating who laced the toothpaste with diethylene glycol, which FDA inspectors first discovered last week in a tube on the shelf of a Silver Spring discount store. The Colgate-Palmolive Co. warned consumers to beware of counterfeits and is helping recall the tainted products.

It took Navy a little while to get Colgate under wraps yesterday, but in the end, the Midshipmen easily extended their stranglehold on the Patriot League and paved the way to another NCAA tournament appearance. Sparked by junior attackman Nick Mirabito's career-high four goals, No. 9 Navy out-classed the Raiders over the final three quarters of the league's tournament title game and rolled to a 15-9 victory before 1,901 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The win gives Navy (11-3) an automatic bid to its fourth consecutive NCAA tournament.

From the opening minutes of yesterday's rematch with Colgate, it was obvious that the Navy men's lacrosse team was not going to let it happen again. A year after suffering its first loss to its Patriot League rival, the fifth-ranked Midshipmen dispatched the Raiders with ease at chilly Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Led by senior midfielder William Wallace and freshman midfielder Basil Daratsos, Navy scored the game's first six goals, then cruised to a 15-10 victory. Navy (7-0, 4-0)

Tom and Kate Chappell left corporate jobs in Philadelphia in 1968 to move to the woods of Kennebunk, Maine, where they made their own soap and other natural care products. Their enterprise evolved into Tom's of Maine, a natural products company the couple started in 1970 that grew into, among other things, the nation's largest producer of natural toothpaste. The company reveled in thumbing its nose at much larger competitors that used additives in their toothpaste. But this week, Tom's crossed enemy lines, so to speak, when it announced its sale to toothpaste giant Colgate-Palmolive Co. for $100 million.