Soccer Opens BIG EAST Play With No. 10 UConn

Sept. 25, 2003

CORAL GABLES, Fla.-The Miami soccer team hosts No. 10 Connecticut in its BIG EAST Northeast Division opener Friday at 7 p.m. at Cobb Stadium.

The Hurricanes (5-4-0) are 4-0-0 all-time in BIG EAST openers. The Huskies (4-1-2) lead the all-time series 4-0-0 over Miami including a 5-0 shutout in Storrs, Conn. last season.

Miami enters the contest on the winning path, beating Jacksonville 3-1 Sunday afternoon in Tallahassee, Fla.

The Huskies are also on the winning path, beating Long Beach State 5-0 Sunday afternoon.

Sophomore Lindsey Yach (Carrollton, Texas) leads the team with nine points this season. She has scored a team-high four goals.

Halftime entertainment for the match will include members of the North American Flyball Association. Raiders of the Lost Bark, Too Hot To Handle and Storm Riders will each pair up dogs from the different clubs and expect to run fairly evenly matched teams.

Flyball is a race of two 4-dog teams side-by-side over a 51-foot racing lane. The lane consists of four hurdles spaced 10 feet apart and a spring loaded flyball box placed 15 feet beyond the farthest hurdle. The flyball box has an angled pedal that the dogs trigger with their feet. This causes the box to eject a tennis ball. One after the other, each dog must run the lane, jump the hurdles, retrieve the ball and return over the hurdles. The first team to finish four dogs without error wins the heat. Errors include early starts (where the dog being sent crosses the start/finish line before the returning dog), dropped balls, missed hurdles and boxes that aren’t properly triggered and require the offending dogs to rerun after the rest of the team has finished.

Tickets:
Adults – $5 Kids – $3 – UM students admitted free of charge.
Tickets can be purchased day of the game at the Hurricane Ticket Office.
For more information contact the Hurricane Ticket Office at 305-284-CANES in Dade or 1-800-GO-CANES.