United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics - Football

CAPE COD, Mass. – Interim Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), Stephen R. Bamford, has announced today that the ECAC North Atlantic Football Bowl Game featuring Bridgewater State University (7-2) and the United States Coast Guard Academy (8-2) will be available via a live web cast by Penn Atlantic, Inc. Kickoff is slated for noon at Cadet Memorial Stadium on Saturday, November 18. The ECAC has six different football bowl championship games this weekend in three different regions. To watch the broadcast simply CLICK HERE

There will be plenty of tickets available for the football game on Saturday. Season ticket holders should go to Will Call before the game to pick up their tickets.

The live video stream is the first of many to be scheduled with the ECAC in conjunction with Penn Atlantic, Inc. ECAC.tv is scheduled to go live in December and will stream ECAC championship events, championship selection shows, and conferences’ regular-season contests.

The broadcast on Saturday will be free to all viewers and will be available via a link on www.ecac.org.

The ECAC assigns football officials to over 400 Division II and III games across a twelve state region. A total of 435 ECAC football officials were assigned to one or more games this fall. The ECAC has honored 164 football players of the week since early September and will recognize more than 250 football all-stars including 14 players of the year and rookies of the year in the next few weeks.

The ECAC also administers the weekly polls for the coveted Lambert Trophies which are given to the top Division I-A, I-AA, Division II and III programs in the East. These polls are sponsored by FieldTurf Tarkett..

About the ECAC
The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic conference with 320 Divisions I, II, and III colleges and universities from Maine to North Carolina. With 122,000 participating student-athletes, the ECAC sponsors 98 championships in 37 men’s and women’s sports, assigns more than 5,100 officials in 15 sports, administers eight affiliate sports organizations and nine playing leagues and recognizes more than 3,990 student-athletes in 21 sports through the public relations arm of the conference. The ECAC serves as the primary conference for selected members in the sports of men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s lacrosse, men’s gymnastics, wrestling, fencing and rowing.

To learn more about the ECAC, visit www.ecac.org.

About Penn Atlantic
Penn Atlantic, Inc. is a Charleston, South Carolina-based communications and media company focused on creating, aggregating and delivering information and entertainment to a broad range of audiences across the world. The primary focus of Penn Atlantic’s line is to facilitate live internet video streaming of athletic events to broadband viewers, which are comprised of sports fans, alumni, students and other individuals who have access to broadband connections. Penn Atlantic broadcasts, delivered at 539 kbps, are of the highest quality available in collegiate athletics.

To learn more about Penn Atlantic, visit www.pennatlantic.com