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“Break The Attendance Night” with Women’s Soccer 10/13/2005 Tonight’s game against Tennessee is available for free on DoreTV. Simply click the link below to view the live webcast. The live stream will be available shortly before the game. Click here to view the game Click here to view the game Nashville — The Vanderbilt women’s soccer team is celebrating Vanderbilt’s Homecoming Weekend with one of its toughest games of the year Friday night when No. 15 Tennessee (8-4-1, 6-0 SEC) comes to Nashville. The No. 21 Commodores (12-2, 5-1 SEC) are hoping that fans come out in record numbers, literally, as the VU Marketing Staff has designated the game as “Break The Attendance Night” at the Vanderbilt Soccer Complex. The first 500 fans will receive gold shakers while the first 150 will also receive T-shirts. The current attendance record stands at 608, set last Oct. 1 against Arkansas. Friday’s game marks the first time in the history of these two instate, rival, SEC programs that both teams are nationally ranked when they meet. The game will have further added significance because the teams are playing for first place in the SEC. Tennessee, which has won seven games in a row, has a perfect 6-0 record in conference putting the Lady Vols in first place in the SEC East. With a win, the Commodores, who are one game behind UT at 5-1 in the conference, could tie for first place in the league. While Tennessee has four losses already this year, the Lady Vols’ record can be deceiving. They started the year 1-4-1 against a loaded non-conference schedule that included then-No. 1 North Carolina, then-No. 10 West Virginia, then-No. 6 Virginia, and then-No. 16 Stanford. The Lady Vols lost to UNC, Washington St., WVU and Stanford, tied William & Mary and beat UVA to start the season, but the young team that includes seven freshmen has come back by rattling off seven wins in a row, including a 2-1 victory over then-No. 11 Florida. “I think (Tennessee head coach) Angela Kelly has done a fantastic job by scheduling a lot of really tough games before the SEC season to get her young team prepared for the conference,” said Vanderbilt head coach Ronnie Coveleskie Hill. “That team really learned a lot from some of those tough first games but they fought through it and there a different team now.” The Tennessee game is set to start at 7 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Soccer Complex. The Commodores will play again Sunday against Georgia (9-4-1, 3-3-0 SEC) at 1 p.m. |
