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Week Ahead: Big Football Game, Golf Openers Highlight Week

Week Ahead: Big Football Game, Golf Openers Highlight WeekWeek Ahead: Big Football Game, Golf Openers Highlight Week

Sept. 19, 2010

By Megan Roehm
GoBEARCATS.com

Here's a look at what's going on this week in UC sports:

  • The football team will take on No. 7 Oklahoma (3-0) at 6 p.m. Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium for Donor Appreciation Day. The game will be televised on ESPN2 and on the radio on 700 WLW.
  • The men's soccer team will come home to face Georgetown (2-2-1) at 7 p.m. Saturday at Gettler Stadium. UC is 2-2-2 for the year.
  • The women's soccer team will match up against No. 7/11 Notre Dame (6-2-0) at 7:30 p.m. Friday in South Bend, Ind. The Bearcats will then come home to play DePaul at 1 p.m. Sunday at Gettler Stadium.
  • The volleyball team (10-3) will take on Morehead State at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Morehead, Ky. They will then begin conference play with two straight home matches. The first match will be against Seton Hall at 7:30 p.m. Friday, followed by a match versus Rutgers at 2 p.m. Sunday.
  • The women's tennis team will compete in the Indiana University Invitational Friday through Sunday in Bloomington, Ind.
  • The men's golf team will kick off the 2010 season in the Cardinal Collegiate on Monday and Tuesday in Louisville, Ky.
  • The women's golf team will open their 2010 season competing in the UC Fall Invitational on Monday and Tuesday at the Elks Run Golf Course in Batavia.

The Calendar:
FOOTBALL

  • 6 p.m. Saturday: UC vs. Oklahoma, Paul Brown Stadium Gametracker | ESPN 2/700 WLW

MEN'S GOLF

  • Monday-Tuesday: Cardinal Collegiate, Louisville, Ky.

WOMEN'S GOLF

  • Monday-Tuesday: UC Fall Invitational, Elks Run Golf Course

MEN'S SOCCER

WOMEN'S SOCCER

TENNIS

  • Friday-Sunday: Indiana University Invitational, Bloomington, Ind.

VOLLEYBALL

Bearcats and the Community:

  • All students who have a ticket to the Oklahoma game at Paul Brown Stadium on September 25 and are looking for transportation that is cheap and easy can register for the All-Student Oklahoma Bus Trip brought to you by UC Student Government. Beginning three hours prior to kickoff, students who have signed up for the Bus Trip package will be shuttled from Sheakley Lawn to Paul Brown Stadium to tailgate for one of the most important non-conference football games played in the history of UC Football. Mike Sell's and Pepsi will be provided to students before the tailgate. Each student signed up will also receive a unique "Black Out" t-shirt made only for this game! To register or to learn more, please visit www.bearcatsbustrip.com or contact Grift Krehnbrink from CATS at krehnbrinkg@gmail.com or at (513) 608-5188.
  • To order tickets for the Oklahoma game or any UC home contest, visit www.CATSTIX.com or call 1-877-CATS-TIX. Season tickets are still available for as low as $180 and can be ordered for Saturday by calling a member of the Bearcats Fan Development team at 1-877-CATS-TIX.
  • Remember to keep voting for the Bearcat in the Mascot National Championship. Visit www.capitalonebowl.com daily to vote.

In case you missed it:

  • The football team fell to North Carolina State last Thursday 30-19 in Raleigh, N.C. Three touchdown passes by Zach Collaros weren't enough as the Bearcats fell to 1-2.
  • The men's soccer team suffered its first loss of the 2010 season, 1-0, against Illinois-Chicago in the Akron Tournament opener last Friday in Akron, Ohio. The Bearcats then played the tournament host, No. 1 Akron, and fell 1-0 last Sunday. UC is 2-2-2 on the year.
  • The women's soccer team fell to No. 16/23 Louisville, 3-1, in their conference opener last Thursday in Louisville, Ky. The Bearcats came back to defeat cross-town rival Xavier, 1-0, on Sunday. Cincinnati is 6-2-1, (0-1-0 BIG EAST).
  • The volleyball team upset No. 5 Illinois in the first match of the BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge last Friday in Louisville, Ky. The five-set match was the Bearcats' second win against a Top 20 team in the last 10 days. (UC defeated then-No. 16 Kentucky on Sept. 7). Cincinnati went on to defeat Purdue 3-0 on Saturday to win the Challenge and improve their record to 10-3 this season, which marks the second time in three years Cincinnati has gotten off to such a strong start.
  • The cross country teams finished ninth and 11th, respectively, at the 16th Annual Br. John "Paddy" Doyle Meet of Champions in the Bronx, N.Y. last Saturday.
    The men's team finished with 237 points to earn 11th as a team, one point behind Kentucky in 10th. The women's team placed ninth in the Meet of Champions with 218 points, five behind eighth place Iona. Nine teams in the field for the women's race were ranked regionally.
    In the men's race, which featured runners from 11 regionally ranked teams, including nationally-ranked Iona, Cincinnati junior Eric Finan finished first out of 207 runners to lead the Bearcats. Finan, who won the Meet of Champions last year in 25:21.60, improved on his time this year completing the 8K race in a time of 24:48.45.
  • The tennis team opened its 2010-11 season at the Bowling Green Invitational over the weekend. Freshman Ashleigh Witte made a big splash in her first collegiate competition, winning the Flight 3 Singles Championship. Junior Safiyya Ismail captured third in Flight 2, while sophomore Elise Woulfe did the same in Flight 3. Senior Lindsey Lonergan was runner-up in Flight 7 and the doubles team of Ismail and Woulfe finished third in Flight 3 Doubles to round out the top finishers for the Bearcats.
  • The men and women's basketball teams released their 2010-2011 schedules last week.
    The men's schedule includes eight nationally televised games on the ESPN family of networks and 16 match-ups vs. teams that participated in postseason action last March. The Bearcats open the regular season with four straight home games in Fifth Third Arena. The season opener on Nov. 15 vs. Mount St. Mary's is the first of four games, which are part of the Global Sports Main Event, an exempted tournament.
    The women's schedule will feature match-ups with some of college basketball's elite, including 10 versus 2010 NCAA Tournament qualifiers. Second-year head coach Jamelle Elliott's Bearcats will host defending national champion Connecticut as well as cross-town rival Xavier, who advanced to the Elite Eight in the 2010 NCAA Tournament. The Bearcats open the 2010-11 season on Nov. 6 with an exhibition contest against Northern Kentucky, which made its fifth straight NCAA Division II tournament appearance last season. The regular-season opener is slated for Nov. 12 against Southwest Baptist on Elementary School Day with a special tip time of 11 a.m.