Volleyball to Open 2013 with 11th Annual Greyhound Premiere
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian College women's volleyball squad will host its 11th Annual Greyhound Premiere on Friday, August 30th and Saturday, August 31st to begin the 2013 season which will feature a total of 34 matches before the postseason.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian College women's volleyball squad will host its 11th Annual Greyhound Premiere on Friday, August 30th and Saturday, August 31st to begin the 2013 season which will feature a total of 34 matches before the postseason.
The Greyhounds, under the direction of 21st-year Head Coach Shelley Bauder, will welcome eight other schools to the nine-team Greyhound Premiere in Johnston Hall and Timothy Breidegam Fieldhouse. Moravian will play Ursinus College on Friday, August 30th at 4:00 p.m. to begin the season, and the Greyhounds will also play Marywood University the same evening at 8:00 p.m.
After four matches in the Greyhound Premiere, Moravian has just five other home contests scheduled during the season. The Greyhounds will host DeSales University on September 10th, Penn State-Berks on September 25th, Penn State-Brandywine on October 9th, Haverford College on October 22nd and Eastern University on November 1st with all five matches beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Johnston Hall.
The Greyhounds have two other tournaments on the schedule in September with four matches at the Buttermaker Tournament hosted by Muhlenberg College on September 6th and 7th and the York College of Pennsylvania Spartan Invitational on September 27th and 28th. Moravian will also play at the four-team Old Friends Crossover hosted by Susquehanna University on September 13th and travel to Marymount (Virginia) University for a tri-match on September 21st.
Moravian opens the first of two Landmark Conference Round Robin weekends on October 5th and 6th as the Greyhounds take on The United States Merchant Marine Academy, The University of Scranton and Goucher College in matches played at Susquehanna. The second Landmark Round Robin is scheduled for October 19th and 20th at USMMA with the Greyhounds scheduled to play Juniata College, The Catholic University of America and Susquehanna.
The weekend between the two Landmark Round Robins sees the Greyhounds heading to the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota area for a pair of tri-matches on October 11th and 12th. Moravian will close out the 2013 regular season on Saturday, November 2nd in a tri-match at Muhlenberg.
The 2013 Landmark Conference Tournament is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, November 5th with the first round of the six-team tournament. In a schedule change this fall, the semifinal contests will be played at the top seed on Friday, November 8th and the championship match is scheduled for Saturday, November 9th. Prior to this fall, the semifinals and championship were all played on the same day.
To view the entire 2013 Moravian women's volleyball schedule, visit http://moraviansports.com/sports/wvball/2013-14/schedule.
