Friday, September 12, 2008

Busy Weekend ahead for Greyhounds

The Loyola women’s soccer, tennis, volleyball and cross country teams as well as the men’s soccer, cross country, and golf teams will all take on competition this weekend.

Women’s Soccer (0-3-1), the defending MAAC Champs, will have two opportunities to pick up their first victory of the season as they will host a pair of home games this weekend on DGA Field, taking on VCU Friday afternoon at 4:30 and the Indiana Hoosiers Sunday afternoon at noon.

Women’s Volleyball (2-6) will spend the weekend in northern New Jersey and will play 3 matches in the span of 2 days. Coming off a win in their home opener against Morgan St. the ‘Hounds will take on Sacred Heart Friday, and have a pair of matches Saturday as they will take the court against UMBC and the weekend’s hosts NJIT at 10AM and noon respectively.

Women’s Tennis and the both Cross-Country teams will all compete in in-state tournaments as the ladies will hit the courts in the Towson 4+1 Tournament on the Tigers’ Campus and the harriers will run in the Navy Invitational in Annapolis.

The defending MAAC champ Men’s Golf Team, led by Coach Tom Biedleman, will take aim at the Ron Moore Tournament team title in Denver, Colorado in their first action of the season. The Greyhounds will compete against the likes of Ohio St., Iowa, Iowa St., Hawaii, the Air Force Academy, and hosts, the University of Denver, in this seventeen team tournament to be played Sunday-Tuesday.

As for the undefeated Men’s Soccer squad (4-0), they will take their #23 national ranking to the District to take on George Washington University Saturday at 3PM.

Good luck to everyone and be sure to check loyolagreyhounds.com for results.

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