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November 3, 2005
Release: #0517

News Release
For Immediate Release

SACRAMENTO, CA . . . The California Community Colleges Commission on Athletics (COA) will announce the 2005 California Community College football bowl game participants, as selected by the COA Football Bowl Game Selection Committee, on the COA Web site, www.coasports.org, no later than 2:00 p.m. PT on Sunday, November 13. The announcement will also be distributed to California media outlets. Telephone, fax, and email inquiries will not be honored.

COA sanctioned regional bowl games, with hosts in parenthesis, are:

November 19:
American Bowl (Mission Football Conference)
Bulldog Bowl (College of San Mateo)
East County Bowl (Los Medanos College)
Golden Empire Bowl (Bakersfield College)
Graffiti Bowl (Modesto Junior College)
National Bowl (Mission Football Conference)
Silicon Valley Bowl (Foothill College)
Southern California Bowl (Foothill Conference)
U.S. Bank Beach Bowl (Santa Monica College)
Western State Bowl (Western State Conference)

November 26:
Capital Shrine Bowl (Sacramento City College)
U.S. Bank Holiday Bowl (Butte College)
Southern California Semifinal Game 1 (Hosted by higher seed)
Southern California Semifinal Game 2 (Hosted by higher seed)

December 3:
San Francisco Hawaiian Punch Community College Bowl (City College of San Francisco)
Producers Dairy Bowl (Fresno City College)
Southern California Championship Game (Hosted by higher seed)

December 10:
California Community Colleges Commission on Athletics Football Championship
Presented by U.S. Bank at Grizzlies Stadium, Fresno, CA

In Northern California, the COA Football Bowl Game Selection Committee will designate one of the Northern California bowl games as the Northern California championship, to be contested by the champions of the North Division conferences (Nor-Cal and Valley).

In Southern California, four of the November 19 Southern California bowl games will be designated as first-round playoff games by the Football Bowl Game Selection Committee. Regional semifinal (November 26) and regional championship (December 3) games will be hosted by the higher seed.

The winners of the Northern California and Southern California championship playoff games will advance to the California Community Colleges Commission on Athletics Football Championship presented by U.S. Bank on December 10, 2005, at Grizzlies Stadium in Fresno, California. The championship game is an official event of the inaugural 2005-06 COA Championship Festival. Kick-off is scheduled for 1 p.m.

For more information about the California Community Colleges Commission on Athletics Football Championship or the COA Championship Festival, as well as news and updates of all 23 COA sanctioned sports, visit www.coasports.org.

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