Weekly Schedule October 1-14

Weekly schedule October 1-14

Key:

(Y) - Definitely Attending
(P) - Probably Attending
(M) - Might Attend
(D) - Doubtful to Attend

Friday, October 5:

7:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. USF (Y)

Saturday, October 6:

3:00 PM: Men's Ice Hockey exh. vs. York (P)

Sunday, October 7:

1:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. Marquette (Y)

Tuesday, October 9:

7:00 PM: Men's soccer vs. Iona (M)

Friday, October 12:

4:00 PM: Women's volleyball vs. Cincinnati, followed by First Night (P)

Saturday, October 13:

TBD: Football Homecoming vs. Temple (Y)
12:00 PM: Field Hockey vs. Georgetown (M) Will attend if no conflict with football

Sunday, October 14:

1:00 PM: Field Hockey vs. Stanford (Y)
2:00 PM: Women's volleyball vs. Louisville (P) will go after field hockey

PS: Visit Paul Fornica and Paul Formica for US House. Great websites.

Known UConn Games Spring 2013

Known Games for Spring 2013 UConn Sports

The full softball schedule is available here

Women's Lacrosse

Sunday, April 7, 2013: at Villanova, 1:00 PM (source)
Friday, April 12, 2013: vs. Cincinnati, 3:00 PM (source)
Friday, April 26, 2013: at Georgetown, 4:00 pm (source)

Baseball:

There is also a tournament at Central Florida against UCF and Michigan, date unknown.
There is also a tournament at Stetson the weekend of March 1 against Stetson, Ohio State, and Central Michigan.
They have a 3 game series at Presbyterian over spring break and one game at College of Charleston.
They also have a 3 game road series at Sam Houston State.
They have a 3 game series against George Mason the last weekend of the season and will probably play 24 conference games.

(Above quote from Chris Jones)

Update: Notre Dame will play 24 conference games, 3 each against 8 opponents, presumably we will too

Additional details:


Friday, February 15, 2013: vs. Indiana @ Dunedin, FL, 4:00 PM (source)
Saturday, February 16 or Sunday February 17: vs. Purdue in Dunedin, FL (source)
Friday, April 26: at Notre Dame, 5:35 PM
Saturday, April 27: at Notre Dame, 2:05 PM
Sunday, April 28: at Notre Dame, 1:05 PM

Weekly Schedule September 10th-23rd

My schedule of games for September 10th-23rd is below. Since this coming week is a slow week, I've included two weeks, but the second week will be updated next week at this time.

Key:

(Y) - Will Attend
(P) - Probably Attending
(M) - Might Attend
(D) - Doubtful to Attend

Friday, September 14:

7:00 PM: Women's Volleyball vs. Harvard (Y)

Saturday, September 15:

12:00 PM: Field Hockey vs. Rutgers (P)

Sunday, September 16:

2:00 PM: Field Hockey vs. Yale (Y)

Tuesday, September 18:

7:00 PM: Men's Soccer vs. Boston College (P)

Friday, September 21:

7:00 PM: Field Hockey vs. New Hampshire (P)
7:00 PM: Volleyball vs. Villanova (D)
I will attend one of them

Saturday, September 22:

7:00 PM: Men's soccer vs. St. John's (Y)

Sunday, September 23:

2:00 PM: Volleyball vs. Georgetown (Y)

Weekly Schedule September 3 - September 9

Here is the weekly schedule for September 3 to September 9.

Key:

(Y) - Will Attend
(P) - Probably Attending
(M) - Might Attend
(D) - Doubtful to Attend

Wednesday, September 5:

7:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. Marist (D)

Friday, September 7:

7:00 PM:  Men's soccer vs. Washington (Y)

Saturday, September 8:

12:00 PM: Football vs. NC State (Y)

Sunday, September 9:

7:00 PM: Men's soccer vs. Boston University (Y)

Games 3-10-109 and 3-11-110: Women's Volleyball UConn Classic vs. Fairfield and Michigan State, Plus Two Undercard Games

What: UConn Women's Volleyball UConn Classic: Dartmouth vs. Michigan State, UConn vs. Fairfield, Fairfield vs. Dartmouth, UConn vs. Michigan State

Where: Gampel Pavilion

When: Saturday, September 1  - 10 AM, 12:30 PM, 5 PM, 7:30 PM

Result: MSU 3 DAR 0, UC 3 FAIR 0, FAIR 3 DAR 0, MSU 3, UC 0. Overall, Michigan State goes 2-0 for the day, UConn and Fairfield go 1-1, and Dartmouth goes 0-2.

UConn and Fairfield face
eachother. Yes, they are going
white-on-white. Confusing

Doubleheaders are always fun, but what about double doubleheaders? That must be twice the fun, right? Right. I got to Gampel around 9:30 AM to watch the first matchup of the day, and third of the tournament (I missed Day 1 because I was at men's soccer). Michigan State beat Dartmouth 3 games to none. It was an interesting matchup, but not particularly close. Michigan State won, as they were expected to do.

Then came the first main match, involving the Huskies, as they took on the Fairfield Stags. You can see in the photo on the left that the two teams went white-on-white, which was very confusing.

We won the first set rather easily. The last two took some trouble, but we won them too. I must say the marketing people have done a great job at attracting students and other fans since I was last there two years ago. There was a good total - officially 156 for the first game, but I thought we had more. For the second game, we nearly doubled that with 312 fans.

But the second part of the day didn't start until 5:00 and the first game let out around 2:00. I walked across the street to the Student Union for lunch, then watched some football in the lounge. I saw Ohio upset Penn State, in an upset I had predicted earlier. I also saw Bowling Green get out to an early lead against Florida, but evidently they were unable to hold on.

Speaking of the second game, it was against Big Ten power Michigan State. Although we won our first two matches of the tournament, the Spartans proved too much for us to handle. They won in straight sets. It was still exciting to see such a prominent team come to our place.

A full day of volleyball, and a fun one at that. Even if we didn't win the second game and take the tournament crown, it was still a great day.

Game 3-9-108

What: Men's soccer vs. Dartmouth

When: Friday, August 31, 7:00 PM

Where: Morrone Stadium

Result: Win 2-1 (OT)

The Big Green players warm up
before the match

I was worried heading into this contest that this would be a "trap" game for the Huskies as we looked ahead to the nationally televised matchup vs. Washington on Friday. After all, that almost happened vs. Yale and Boston University last year. And alas, it almost happened again here.

We were up 1-0 late, but gave up a goal with 6 seconds left to tie it at 1. Thankfully, Mamadou scored a goal in overtime for a 2-1 victory. It was a scare, but we won.

A win is a win, after all. But if we play like this against Washington, we're going to lose. I'll take this result, but we need to pick up our play now that our schedule is getting tough. 

Above, see a picture of Dartmouth warming up. If you look closely, you'll see the scoreboard gives their name as "Green".

Game 3-8-107: Men's Soccer vs. St. Francis

What: Men's Soccer vs. St. Francis

When: Saturday, August 25, 2012, 7:00 PM

Where: Morrone Stadium

Result: Win 1-0

This was the first regular season game of the year for men's soccer, so it was also the first Goal Patrol meeting. It was crowded, probably more crowded than it will be at any game the rest of the season. We probably had several hundred students, at least, at the Goal Patrol meeting. Then it was on to Morrone Stadium.

St. Francis warmups - why
the red?

When we arrived, St. Francis was warming up. They were wearing red uniforms. (See picture on left) This confused me because I distinctly recalled St. Francis wearing blue when we played them before. Several thoughts occurred to me - was I wrong? Had they changed their uniforms? Were we playing the other St. Francis? But it turns out, those were just their warm ups. Strange. They changed into blue uniforms for the actual game, per their school colors. But the red warmups looked like real uniforms. They had numbers only on the front, while the real uniforms had numbers only on the back, but they could easily have been interchanged. Is one the alternate away uniform or something, and they use it as warmups when they're not wearing it? I don't know. Anyway, you can view a photo of the blue game uniforms on this page as well.

St. Francis huddling in blue uniforms
before the game. 

Then the game started. We scored our only goal on a Mamadou Doudou Diouf penalty kick, but frankly it could have been a lot more of a blowout. We had almost 20 shots, and about a dozen chances that could easily have led to goals. But we only scored one. But a win is a win. We are ranked #1 in one poll now and #4 in the other. With #2 UCLA losing to St. Francis, we could be ranked #3 next week in that poll. Next up for men's soccer is Dartmouth next Friday. There are a women's soccer game and a field hockey game tomorrow at 1:00 PM. I may go to one, and I probably will. But there's other events going on then that aren't sports that I may attend instead. I don't know yet. I'll update tomorrow.

Regardless, I will be at the men's soccer vs. Dartmouth Friday night. But I can't attend football vs. UMass Thursday night, which is disappointing. I get out of class at 6:15, but that doesn't leave me time to catch the bus, the last one leaves at 6:00. That's all for now.

Weekly Schedule, August 20 - September 2

The schedule of games I plan on attending, next week and the week after. Next week is break, but I'll still be on campus. The week after is the first week of classes.

Key:

(Y) - Will Attend
(P) - Probably Attending
(M) - Might Attend
(D) - Doubtful to Attend
(N) - Not attending (only used in exceptional cases)

Friday, August 24:

7:00 PM: Women's Soccer vs. Boston College (Y)

Saturday, August 25:

12:00 PM: Field Hockey vs. Bucknell (Y)
7:00 PM: Men's soccer vs. St. Francis (Y)

Sunday, August 26:

1:00 PM: Field Hockey vs. Sacred Heart (D)
1:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. Maine (M)
Between the two, it's a (P)

Thursday, August 30:

7:30 PM: Football vs. UMass (N)
I get out of class at 6:15, in time to watch the game on TV, but not to catch the bus

Friday, August 31:

7:00 PM: Men's soccer vs. Dartmouth (Y)
All simultaneous games are therefore (N), unless rain cancels the soccer game.

Saturday, September 1:

10:00 AM: Women's Volleyball - Toyota UConn Classic: Michigan State vs. Dartmouth (P)
12:30 PM: Women's Volleyball - Toyota UConn Classic: UConn vs. Fairfield (Y)
5:00 PM: Women's Volleyball - Toyota UConn Classic: Fairfield vs. Dartmouth (P)
7:30 PM: Women's Volleyball - Toyota UConn Classic - UConn vs. Michigan State (Y)