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June 25, 2007
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (June 25, 2007) - Sacred Heart women's basketball coach Ed Swanson announced the schedule for the upcoming 2007-08 season with the Pioneers gunning for their seventh-straight winning campaign and another trip to the Northeast Conference Tournament.
The Pioneers, coming off a 22-10 record last season where they won their second-straight NEC regular season title with a 15-3 mark, claiming a share of the crown. Eleven non-conference games will prepare SHU for the rigors of an 18-game league slate for the Pioneers.
The season tips-off on Friday, November 9th at the University of Rhode Island as Sacred Heart embarks on a new era for the program. For the first time in the last four years, the Pioneers will take the court without the services of the program's all-time leading scorer Amanda Pape. Add to that the graduation of starters Jasmine Walker and Kerri Burke along with Mary Rush, the Pioneers will have a new look in 2007-08.
The non-conference schedule has a real 'Northeast' feel to it this season with 10 of the 11 opponents coming from the region. The Pioneers will take on the America East Conference and Ivy League three times apiece while taking on the Atlantic-10 on two dates in 2007-08
Returning starters, senior guard Lisa Moray (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) and junior center Kaitlin Sowinski (Hopkinton, R.I.) will lead the Pionners into the season opener with the URI. SHU takes on the Rams for the first time since the 1998-99 season, a 69-66 Rhode Island win. Stony Brook is next up on November 14th before the first Division I meeting between SHU and their cross-town rival Fairfield University. The game is scheduled for a 4:30 pm start at the Arena at Harbor Yard with both school's men's teams finishing the double header at 7 pm.
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Binghamton University pays a visit to the Sacred Heart campus to open a four-game home stand on November 25th. The University at Albany is in the Pitt Center on November 28th followed by a first-ever meeting with Brigham Young University on December 1st. SHU faces Dartmouth College on December 4th, facing the Big Green for just the second time ever and first since 1998-99.
SHU closes non-league play with trips to Lehigh on December 19th and La Salle on December 28th and a pair of home dates with Princeton on December 22nd and Columbia on December 30th.
The Pioneers have a pair of NEC games schedule before the calender changes, traveling to Monmouth on December 8th and upstate to Central Connecticut on December 10th. The rest of the league schedule is subject to change due to the league's TV schedule.
2007-08 Non-Conference Schedule
November - at Rhode Island (9th), at Stony Brook (14th), at Fairfield (18th), BINGHAMTON (25th), ALBANY (28th)
December - BYU (1st), DARTMOUTH (4th), at Monmouth (8th), at Central Connecticut (10th), at Lehigh (19th), PRINCETON (22nd), at La Salle (28th), COLUMBIA (30th)
