SU selected to play in ECAC Southwest Bowl Championship at Lebanon Valley

CAPE COD, Mass. - The Salisbury University football team was selected on Monday to participate in the 2009 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Southwest Bowl Championship game. The Sea Gulls, the defending Southwest Bowl Champions, will travel to Annville, Pa., on Saturday, Nov. 21 to face Lebanon Valley College. The game will be held at Arnold Field and is scheduled to start at noon.

The Sea Gulls (5-5) ended the regular-season with a 34-19 victory over in-state rival Frostburg State University on Saturday night at Sea Gull Stadium to win their sixth-straight Regents Cup.

Salisbury is making its fifth appearance in an ECAC Bowl and has won the past three, including last year's 21-17 win over Moravian College in the 2008 ECAC Bowl Championship.

This will mark the first-ever meeting between the two schools. The teams do not share any common opponents this season.

Lebanon Valley (8-2), which hails from the Middle Atlantic Conference, has had a record-breaking season as it won eight games for the first time since 1902. This is the first-ever ECAC Bowl Championship appearance for the Dutchmen.

Salisbury is one of 12 teams selected to a 2009 ECAC Bowl Championship game.

The other ECAC Bowl Championship games:

ECAC Northeast Bowl: Plymouth State (8-2) at Springfield (7-2)  
ECAC North Atlantic Bowl: Hartwick (5-4) at Union (7-3)
ECAC Northwest Bowl: Cortland State (7-3) at St. John Fisher (6-3)
ECAC Southeast Bowl: Ursinus (6-4) at Kean (8-2)
ECAC South Atlantic Bowl: Wilkes (6-4) at Franklin & Marshall (8-2)