This Week in VMI Athletics - Sept. 15

It's been a tough week for the VMI soccer programs, as they each have gone 0-2. Women's soccer lost 1-0 to Delaware State today, after dropping a close 2-1 affair to Campbell Saturday. The men lost both games in the Sculley Memorial Tournament, including a stunning 1-0 loss to Rider after the visitors scored off a direct corner kick with 28 seconds left. The Keydets had three quality shots in the last 10 seconds, but could not notch the tying goal in that game and fell to 0-4.

Football is getting ready to return to action, with a trip to James Madison next on the schedule. The Dukes come off an OT loss to FBS opponent Maryland this past weekend. The VMI/JMU game is Saturday at 6 in Harrisonburg, and is a matchup of the only two schools to lead their respective leagues in rushing each of the last three seasons. Both are also leading their conferences (Big South and CAA respectively) in that stat this year. The contest will also, of course, feature Tim Maypray, who is the NCAA's active leader in all-purpose yds per play. Get all your relevant game day links here: http://www.vmikeydets.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9800&ATCLID=204793305

Basketball, as we tweeted last week, is waiting on the status of one game before finalizing its schedule. The team is taking pictures this week (as is the wrestling team), as it continues to prepare for the upcoming season.

The next scheduled event on Post is Sept. 26 (men's soccer vs. Longwood), which begins the blitz that is October. From Sept. 26 through Oct. 18, there are no fewer than 12 athletic events here at VMI, including 10 soccer games and a pair of football games. Parents' weekend (Oct. 17) is the busiest day in that time, with UNC Asheville coming to town for men's soccer at 11 a.m., before Stony Brook visits for football later that afternoon.

Finally, we wanted to fill you in on the video streaming schedule for soccer. We will stream five more home soccer games, and several road contests will be streamed by those respective institutions. The five we currenly plan to run are:

Sept. 27: Women's soccer vs. Longwood
Oct. 2: Women's soccer vs. Presbyterian
Oct. 7: Men's soccer vs. Howard
Oct. 14: Men's soccer vs. Gardner-Webb
Oct. 16: Women's soccer vs. Gardner-Webb

Brad Salois and Christian Hoffman will bring you those games live on the Big South Network.