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For fans in Atlantic Canada, this weekend's St. FX Invitational in Antigonish offers a glimpse of four AUS teams in action in their final tuneups for the regular season which commences next weekend. Tonight's action begins at 5 PM Eastern as #5 St. Mary's Huskies (8-1), winners of 8 in a row, tangle with Cape Breton Capers (5-2), who reeled off 5 wins in a row off the start of the pre-season before dropping games to #2 Windsor at the Hawk Challenge (Laurier tournament) and at Guelph. The Capers were without 6'4" Paul Blake for much of the Windsor game and all of the Guelph game and his status for this weekend is uncertain. In the nightcap, the host X-Men (4-3), who went 1-2 on their tour of Southern Ontario last weekend, meet UPEI Panthers (1-8), off to a slow start but with several talented new faces in the rotation should continue to mature as a group and could surprise as the season moves on. Click on St. FX Invitational Webcast and go to the right hand column under "Varsity Schedules" and click on the webcast link. Stay tuned for game updates as the evening progresses. Here is Chris Kallan's preview article in the Halifax Daily News.

Other articles of note: Calgary's Henry Bekkering gets some run on the canoe.ca network for his regular season debut against Victoria this evening as Cameron Maxwell of the Calgary Sun reports Bekkering era to begin for basketball Dinos

Howard Tsumura does his usual stellar job, this time keeping on top of UBC's plans to move toward NCAA status for their sports teams UBC poised for NCAA application