COLBY FOOTBALL BLANKS BATES, 14-0

LEWISTON, Maine

The Colby College football team (5-1) won the first leg of the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin (CBB) championship series today with a 14-0 shutout of the host Bates College Bobcats (0-6). The win was Colby's first over Bates since 1996, also the last time the White Mules won the CBB.

The White Mules got on the board on their first drive of the game, taking advantage of a poor Bates punt to go 37 yards in seven plays. The drive was capped by a three-yard scoring run by junior fullback Joe Murray (Winthrop, Mass.). After that, the game turned into a defensive struggle, with the team's two best drives ending on missed field goals into winds that gusted up to 40 miles per hour. Colby was able to add an insurance score with 4:04 remaining in the contest on a one-yard quarterback keeper by sophomore Pat Conley (Bath, Maine) one play after a 45-yard completion to senior Andrew Tripp (Saco, Maine).

For the game, Conley completed 10 of 22 passes for 144 yards, while junior Danny Noyes (Silver Lake, N.H.) had a season-high 90 yards rushing on 16 carries. Bates was paced by sophomore running back Sean Atkins (New York, N.Y.), who had 81 yards on 25 carries, while classmate Kane Jankoski (Spencer, Mass.) completed 11 of 28 passes for 113 yards in his first career start.

Bates will travel to Bowdoin next week for the second leg of the CBB title, while Colby heads to Tufts University.

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