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Best road trips of 2015: Week 5

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Friday, Oct. 2: Delaware Valley at FDU-Florham
Saturday, Oct. 3: Kean at Frostburg State
Saturday, Oct. 3: Bridgewater at Shenandoah

Next: Week 6


Although you have likely already seen Delaware Valley in Week 2, Delaware Valley at FDU-Florham is the only Friday night game in Week 5. But our road-tripping D-III fan hasn't been to FDU-Florham this year. For our Saturday afternoon game, we thought we'd take a different tack. For, for every highly vaunted game in the New-JAC, there are matchups that you just wouldn't have expected or pictured. That's the matchup you get with Kean at Frostburg State. (Similar principles apply in MLB's interleague play -- for every Yankees-Mets game, there would typically be a Pirates-Royals game. Before those two teams got good, that is.) We finish the night in the same place we finished our Mid-Atlantic Week 1 trip, or the same place we sent you in Week 5 in 2013, and that's to see Bridgewater at Shenandoah. These teams are just about a hundred miles apart on I-81 and travel really well for these night games.

We've driven past Dickinson at Franklin and Marshall to get to Frostburg because we've seen both the Devils and Dips already, but you can choose that game if you prefer. There's an attractive game on Saturday night with Rowan at Christopher Newport, but the game kicks off at 6 and it's actually deceptively difficult to get to CNU. If you wanted to see Emory and Henry again, the Wasps are at Randolph-Macon, or Catholic is at Hampden-Sydney, if you want to pair those games up.

Total: Three games, 397 miles start to finish.

Previous: Week 4

Next: Week 6

Dec. 15: All times Eastern
Final
Cortland 38, at North Central (Ill.) 37
@ Salem, Virginia
Video Box Score Recap Photos
Dec. 9: All times Eastern
Final
North Central (Ill.) 34, at Wartburg 27
Box Score Recap
Final
Cortland 49, at Randolph-Macon 14
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