Media Scrum Schedule- Tuesday, Sept. 24 

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• 1:45 p.m.- Tennis
• 2 p.m.- Women's Soccer
• 2:15 p.m.- Men's Soccer
• 2:30 p.m.- Triathlon
• 2:45 p.m.- Football

Home Event Schedule

Friday, Sept. 27
7 p.m.- Women's Soccer vs. New Mexico Highlands
Saturday, Sept. 28
1 p.m.- Football vs. Chadron State
Sunday, Sept. 29
Noon- Women's Soccer vs. Adams State
3 p.m. - Men's Soccer vs. Fort Lewis

Complete Composite Schedule: https://cmumavericks.com/calendar?date=9/23/2024&vtype=list

General Updates

• Steak & Crab Fest Tickets are still available at www.cmumavericks.com/tickets.  The event is Saturday, Oct. 5 from 2-6 p.m. at Lincoln Park.  Football is also at home that day at 1 p.m. at the Colorado School of Mines.
• Season tickets are also now available for basketball at the same site.

Women's Soccer

• The Mavericks (2-1-2 overall) will open up RMAC play with a pair of home matches, taking on New Mexico Highlands on Friday night (7 p.m.) and Adams State on Sunday (1 p.m.) at Community Hospital Unity Field.
• The Mavs, ranked 14^th in last week's United Soccer Coaches National Poll, are coming off a 0-1-1 week in Texas.
• They tied St. Mary's 1-1 on Thursday night in San Antonio before falling 2-0 on Saturday afternoon at St. Edward's in Austin.
• Braelyn Baclayon scored for the Mavs in Thursday's tie before the Mavs outshot St. Edwards' 26-11 in Saturday's defeat, the first of the Mavs' season.

Football

• The Mavericks (1-2, 0-1 RMAC) will play their second home game Chadron State (1-2, 0-1 RMAC) on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Stocker Stadium.
• The Mavericks dropped their RMAC-opener 35-14 to No. 22 CSU Pueblo on Saturday in Pueblo, their second straight game against a nationally-ranked opponent.
• Chadron State lost 13-12 to No. 4 Colorado School of Mines at home last week.
• Liban Shongolo recorded a career-high 15 tackles in last week's game against the ThunderWolves.  Trevin Edwards set season-highs for catches (6) and receiving yards (54) as well.

Men's Soccer

• The Mavericks are now 3-1-1 and are coming off a strong week in Durango that saw them out-score their opponents 8-0 in neutral-site wins over Montana State Billings and Simon Fraser.
• CMU will play a pair of challenging, undefeated and National Top 10 RMAC foes in non-conference match-ups this week.  They play at UCCS (5-0-1) on Thursday night (7 p.m.) in Colorado Springs  before returning home to face Fort Lewis (currently 3-0-3) in their home-opener on Sunday at 3 p.m.  UCCS was ranked eighth nationally in last week's United Soccer Coaches' Poll while Fort Lewis was ranked ninth.
• Kensho Negi scored a goal in each of the Mavs' two victories, including the first goal and game-winner against Simon Fraser.
• Marc Bonafe had a goal against Simon Fraser and added three assist throughout the weekend.
• Diego Chavez recorded back-to-back shutouts making six saves.

Volleyball

• The Mavericks, ranked 17^th in last week's AVCA Coaches' Poll, recorded 3-set sweeps over Western Colorado and Fort Lewis to open up RMAC play last weekend while improving to 8-2 overall and 2-0 in the RMAC.
• Maverick setter Sabrina VanDeList broke CMU's all-time records for assists and service aces over the weekend while also eclipsing the 1,000 career dig milestone.  She now has 156 career service aces, going past Drew Choules (153, 2004-07) early in Friday's win over Western Colorado.  VanDeList, who now has 4,220 career assists, then broke Jordyn Moody's record (4,202; 2011-14) on Saturday while also becoming just the 13^th Maverick to go over the 1,000 dig milestone.  She is also the first CMU player to ever have both 4,000 assists and 1,000 digs.
• After going 5-1 at home over the last two weeks, the Mavs are on the road for their next three matches, starting Friday in a potential RMAC-title deciding match-up against MSU Denver (9-1, 2-0 RMAC), ranked second in last week's AVCA Poll.
• The Mavs then play at Colorado School of Mines (4-6, 1-1 RMAC) on Sunday in Golden before heading back home and then west to Salt Lake City, Utah for a Tuesday, Oct. 1 clash at Westminster (6-3, 2-0 RMAC), who will also be on the road in Denver this weekend.

Men's & Women's Tennis

• The Mavericks will wrap-up their fall season this week at the ITA West Regional Championships in southern California.  Matches begin on Thursday and will give the Mavs a chance to preview their PacWest Conference foes in individual singles & doubles draws.
• CMU's men went 3-0 in team duals this fall while the CMU women were 2-2 a little more than a week ago at the Pueblo Duals.

Men's Golf

• The Mavericks, receiving votes in the latest Bushnell/Golfweek Division II Coaches Poll, will resume their season on Thursday playing in the first of back-to-back tournaments in the state of Washington.
• CMU will play at St. Martin's Bishop Invitational at The Home Course in Dupont on Thursday and Friday before heading up to Bellingham Country Club for Western Washington's Invitational on Monday and Tuesday.

Triathlon

• The Mavericks will race on Sunday at the Battle in the Fort Triathlon, hosted by TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.
• CMU, which was last in action on Sept. 7 is ranked third in the latest CTCA Division II rankings, based solely on their performance at the Southern Hills Triathlon on Aug. 31.

Women's Golf

• The Mavericks are playing in the Wasatch Invitational, hosted by Westminster in South Jordan, Utah.
• They were tied for sixth after the first day of the tournament as Utah native Hunter Gledhill (Herriman) led the Mavs with opening round score of 75 (+3) to stand in tenth place on the individual leaderboard.
• The tournament concludes today (Monday, Sept. 23)

Cross Country

• The Mavericks cross country teams had solid performances at last week's Roadrunners Invitational in Denver.  Both squads finished higher than two nationally-ranked opponents.
• CMU's women placed fourth out of 13 teams as Brooke Miller led the Mavs with an 18^th place individual finish.
• The Maverick men were fifth out of 14 teams as Kevin DeGree led CMU for the second straight week, placing 33^rd.  CMU's men had a 5-man pack time of just 32 seconds.
• Both squads had eight finishers in the top half of their respective fields.