Virginia Hosts William & Mary Saturday in Final Preseason Scrimmage
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Virginia field hockey team will host William & Mary in a preseason exhibition game at Turf Field on Saturday, August 24 at 3 p.m. Admission is free.
Live stats and streaming will not be available for the contest.
The Cavaliers, who earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship last season, return a talented squad that includes two Preseason All-ACC honorees in junior midfielder Rachel Robinson (Mount Joy, Pa.) and sophomore back Amber Ezechiels (Niew-Vennep, Netherlands).
William & Mary won its first Colonial Athletic Association Championship last fall. In addition to six freshmen, the Tribe returns 16 players from last year’s team, including 75.7% of the team’s scoring production (115 of 152 points, including 39 of 54 goals and 37 of 44 assists) and 98.5% of minutes in goal. UVA picked up a 3-2 win in double overtime last season at William & Mary.
The Cavaliers, who have been picked to finish third in the preseason ACC coaches poll, open the regular-season on the road on Friday, August 30 at Old Dominion before taking on Penn State in the home-opener on Sunday, Sept. 1 at 12 p.m.
ACC Network the new, 24/7 national platform launched on August 22, 2019, will elevate the ACC’s field hockey, women’s soccer and volleyball programs with unprecedented national television coverage this fall. ACCN will exclusively televise 62 field hockey, women’s soccer and volleyball games in its debut year – representing a 90 percent increase in the number of ACC women’s events available on an ESPN linear network over last year and the most live, national coverage of ACC women’s fall sports ever. The Cavaliers will have three games broadcast on the ACC Network with another two games being televised by the ACC Regional Sports Networks.
ACC NETWORK
Owned and operated by ESPN in partnership with the Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC Network (ACCN) is a new 24/7 national network dedicated to ACC sports set to launch August 22, 2019. Approximately 450 live contests including 40 regular-season football games, 150 men’s and women’s basketball games, and 200 other regular-season competitions and tournament games from across the conference’s 27 sponsored sports will be televised annually, plus a complement of news and information shows and original programming. Together, the ACCN and its digital platform, ACC Network Extra (ACCNE), will feature 1,350 ACC events in its first year.
Fans interested in learning more about ACCN can visit www.GetACCN.com. Fans whose provider is not currently scheduled to carry the ACCN are encouraged to contact their provider by phone, email or through social media and request carriage of the network.