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            EASTON, PA. – Senior forward Pat Campolieta scored 18 points and grabbed five rebounds to lead Colgate to a 71-67 win over Lafayette in a Patriot League game Saturday afternoon at the Kirby Sports Center.

            Colgate (10-8 overall, 2-4 Patriot League) held a two-point advantage with three seconds left, before icing the contest on a pair of free throws by Dave Hardy with his only two points of the contest.  The Raiders have won three straight against Lafayette (9-10, 3-3) and taken their second Patriot League road win in three contests.

            Also in double figures for the Raiders was Mark Linebaugh with 14 points, while Tim Sullivan netted 12 points, and Howard Blue added eight points and seven rebounds.

            Brian Burke led Lafayette with a career-high 28 points followed by Mike Farrell with 13 points, and Justin DeBerry and Andrew Pleick with 10 apiece.

            Colgate opened the contest with a seven-point run behind Blue’s opening bucket and five straight points from Campolieta.  Campolieta scored 17 of the Raiders’ first 21 points including 13 straight after Blue’s opening basket.

            Lafayette came back to tie the contest 17-17 on Burke’s 3-pointer.  The Leopards moved in front by three points, 26-23, before Colgate’s Keith Williams tied the contest at halftime with a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

            In the second half, Colgate scored the first four points before Lafayette came back to lead 34-32 with 15:38 remaining.  The Raiders responded with eight straight points on back-to-back 3-pointers by Linebaugh and Bill Kern’s lay-up, and never looked back.   Colgate lead by as many as 10 points on four occasions before the Leopards made one final attempt to pull the game out.

            Colgate held a 68-61 lead with 1:31 left after Kern’s two free throws, but a technical foul on the Raiders for six players on the court gave Lafayette two points on a pair of free throws by Burke.  On the ensuing possession for the Leopards, Farrell made a lay-up to cut the lead to three points, 68-65.

            Campolieta made one of two free throws to put Colgate back up by four points, before Pleick hit a lay-up to cut it to 69-67 with 52 seconds remaining.  Lafayette got the ball back with 14 seconds left after Linebaugh’s shot was blocked but Burke missed a 3-point attempt and Hardy grabbed the rebound with three seconds left and was fouled.

             GAME NOTES - Blue and Kern had their first starting assignments for the Raiders, replacing Martin Marek and Sullivan in the starting five ... Kern responded with a career-high nine points including his first 3-pointer of the season.  He also had a career and team-high three steals ... Freshman Andrew Zidar had three points and three rebounds in eight minutes for the Raiders ... Colgate shot 46 percent from the field and 71.4 percent from the charity stripe (20-of-28) ... Sullivan moved into a tie for eighth place in career 3-pointers made with 79 ... Hardy had a team-high five assists - a season-high for him ... Colgate has won its last three trips to Kirby Sports Center.