App State Declares 2023 Soccer Schedule
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BOONE, N.C. — With regional rivalries and high-profile matchups in September, October and November giving App State Soccer an thrilling 2023 soccer schedule from begin to end, the Solar Belt Convention on Friday introduced the order and dates for each league recreation to go along with the Mountaineers’ beforehand introduced nonconference foes.
Gardner-Webb, East Carolina, Coastal Carolina, Southern Miss, Marshall and Georgia Southern are all coming to The Rock this season. All six opponents touring to Boone made postseason appearances a 12 months in the past.
Tickets will once more be in excessive demand after App State set college and Solar Belt data for season attendance in 2021 solely to shatter them once more final fall. Followers with 2022 season tickets have till March 31 to renew their tickets for the upcoming season.
Followers concerned about buying new season tickets can fill out this on-line type to be added to the 2023 new season ticket waitlist. They are going to be notified of seating choices (if accessible) after the renewal course of is full.
Following a nonleague schedule that’s comprised of a Sept. 2 opener towards Gardner-Webb, a Sept. 9 journey to North Carolina, East Carolina’s long-awaited return to Boone on Sept. 16 (Household Weekend) and a Sept. 23 look at Wyoming, App State begins Solar Belt play at West Division foe ULM on Sept. 30.
The one non-Saturday recreation on App State’s schedule falls 10 days later — a nationally televised, Tuesday evening residence recreation towards Coastal Carolina. Eleven days after internet hosting Coastal, the Mountaineers face Outdated Dominion to play a convention recreation in Norfolk, Va., for the primary time.
The West Division workforce coming to Boone in 2023 is Southern Miss, and App State will host the Golden Eagles for Homecoming on Oct. 28. That recreation might be performed 5 years after the hurricane-related cancelation of an App State-Southern Miss recreation that was scheduled to be held at Kidd Brewer Stadium in 2018.
The one occasion of back-to-back residence video games happens as Marshall travels to Boone for a Nov. 4 recreation at The Rock one week after the Southern Miss go to. The Mountaineers then have back-to-back highway video games for the second time in 2023, with a Nov. 11 recreation at Georgia State and their first Solar Belt Convention recreation at James Madison in Harrisonburg, Va., on Nov. 18.
App State wraps up the common season towards Georgia Southern in Boone on Nov. 25.
Recreation instances and tv networks might be introduced later. Particulars for the Household Weekend and Homecoming video games, in addition to bulletins of different residence recreation promotions and celebrations, might be introduced later.
Two years in the past, when Marshall, Coastal Carolina and Georgia Southern all performed in Boone, followers witnessed one of the crucial exhilarating residence slates in App State historical past. That fall included a 31-30 residence win towards the Thundering Herd and a game-ending discipline purpose in a 30-27 residence victory towards the Chanticleers.
These video games have been on a Thursday and Wednesday, respectively, and the subsequent App State-Coastal recreation happens on a Tuesday. The Mountaineers performed Tuesday highway video games at Louisiana in 2021 and at Arkansas State in 2018, however this would be the first Tuesday recreation contested in Kidd Brewer Stadium.
This can even be the primary time since 2017 that App State begins a season with just one midweek recreation on the schedule. As an FBS program, the Mountaineers performed one midweek recreation in 2014 and 2017, then performed just one in 2020 regardless of having two on the unique schedule main right into a season that featured a number of COVID-related changes.
2023 SCHEDULE
Sat., Sept. 2 vs. Gardner-Webb
Sat., Sept. 9 at North Carolina
Sat., Sept. 16 vs. East Carolina (Household Weekend)
Sat., Sept. 23 at Wyoming
Sat., Sept. 30 at ULM*
Tues., Oct. 10 vs. Coastal Carolina*
Sat., Oct. 21 at Outdated Dominion*
Sat., Oct. 28 vs. Southern Miss* (Homecoming)
Sat., Nov. 4 vs. Marshall*
Sat., Nov. 11 at Georgia State*
Sat., Nov. 18 at James Madison*
Sat., Nov. 25 vs. Georgia Southern*
HOME GAMES IN BOLD
* Denotes Solar Belt Convention recreation
