In conjunction with HomeTown Ticketing, Inc. – a proud sponsor of Blue Hose Athletics – all fans can now purchase season tickets for the Presbyterian College football team’s 2023 campaign to begin in September.
The official link to browse and purchase season tickets is:
https://gobluehose.com/sports/2022/4/19/football-season-tickets.aspx
The 2023 season will encompass year two of the Steve Englehart head coaching era, primed for a Sept. 2 campaign-starter at Murray State followed by PC’s home opener the following weekend versus Virginia University of Lynchburg.
Preparing for the school’s third full year of competition affiliated with the Pioneer Football League (PFL), the Blue Hose and Englehart will host five opponents overall and four conference foes. The first of those PFL encounters will take place on October 7 against the Stetson Hatters.
Presbyterian’s third matchup in Clinton is docked for October 21 in a head-to-head meeting with Marist that will serve as Homecoming weekend. PC’s final two dates at Bailey Memorial Stadium are scheduled for November 4 versus San Diego and November 18 against Morehead State in the regular season finale.
An individual season ticket is priced at $100 and will allow entry into all five home contests this fall.
Volleyball announces 2023 schedule
Presbyterian College and new head volleyball coach Steve Benson announced the team’s 2023 schedule last Monday. The schedule consists of 25 regular season matches including nine of those matches taking place at the Templeton Center.
The Blue Hose are set to battle four opponents for the first time in 2023 with a pair of those coming in two of the three pre-conference tournaments on the slate.
“We are excited for our tournaments leading into Big South play which are highlighted by our trip to Texas. In our non-conference slate we are looking at great opportunities to prepare for a tough conference slate and making a push for the Big South Championship this fall,” commented head coach Steve Benson.
The Blue Hose are set to begin the 2023 season with a home exhibition match on Friday, August 18 against Queens inside the Templeton Center. The same two teams opened the 2022 season in Charlotte with a preseason clash.
Presbyterian opens the Steve Benson Era on Friday, August 25 with a visit to UNC Wilmington to take part in the tournament hosted by the Seahawks. The Blue Hose open the weekend in Wilmington with a matchup against Stetson before facing Fordham and the host UNCW on Saturday, August 26.
The Blue Hose continue their season-opening road swing with a visit west to Arlington to take part in a two-day tournament hosted by UTA beginning on Friday, September 1 with a doubleheader against Incarnate Word and Louisiana Tech. The tournament wraps up on Saturday with a first serve against the host Mavericks.
The nine-match three tournament road swing concludes beginning on September 8 at Wofford’s tournament. The Blue Hose will open the tournament in a Friday doubleheader against the host Terriers and Belmont before facing St. Francis on the next morning.
PC opens the home schedule on Thursday, September 14 against Furman before playing host to Georgia State on Saturday, September 16 inside the Templeton Center.
The Big South slate begins for the Blue Hose on Friday, September 22 with a trip to Charleston Southern to battle the Bucs in Charleston. The road swing to begin league play continues the next weekend at UNC Asheville (Sept. 29) and USC Upstate (Sept. 30).
The home-heavy month of October begins for the Blue Hose on Oct. 6 & 7 with back-to-back home matches against Gardner-Webb and Winthrop. The home stretch continues with matches welcoming in High Point (Oct. 13) and Radford (Oct. 14).
The lone road matches in the month of October come on October 20 at Winthrop before traveling to Gardner-Webb the next afternoon in Boiling Springs.
The final two matches of the home slate in October occur when PC welcomes in USC Upstate on October 27 before squaring off with UNC Asheville the next afternoon from Clinton.
PC begins the month of November with a visit to Radford on Friday, November 3 before heading to High Point the next afternoon for the final road match of the 2023 regular season. The Blue & Garnet wrap up the home slate on Friday, November 10 with a visit from Charleston Southern in the final conference match of the 2023 campaign.
High Point is set to host the Big South Conference Championship from Nov. 18-19 in High Point, N.C.
The Presbyterian College Blue Hose men’s soccer program and head coach Nick Finotti announced their 2023 schedule which is highlighted by eight regular-season games at Martin Stadium. The Blue Hose welcome back 16 letterwinners of last season’s team which won a school Division I record 10 games while reaching the semifinals of the Big South Tournament.
“With an attractive non-conference slate, coupled with the competitive Big South conference games, our team is eager for the fall to arrive,” said Finotti, who is entering his first season at the helm of the Blue Hose men’s soccer program.
Presbyterian begins its 2023 schedule with three exhibition matches including two at Martin Stadium. Presbyterian plays Georgia State on August 15 and Erskine on August 18 at Martin Stadium. The Blue Hose face the College of Charleston on the road in their final exhibition game on August 19.
PC begins the regular season at Martin Stadium against Southern Wesleyan on August 24. PC concludes the month of August with the first of three straight road games at Davidson on August 30.
In the month of September, the Blue Hose remain on the road with contests at Clemson on September 5 and VMI on September 9. Presbyterian is back at Martin Stadium for games against ETSU on September 16 and Jacksonville on September 19. On September 23, the Blue Hose begin Big South Conference play at UNC Asheville. The Blue Hose round out the month of September with home games against Belmont on September 26 and Gardner-Webb on September 30.
The month of October starts with a home game against Wofford on October 3 which is followed by Big South Conference road games at USC Upstate on October 7 and High Point on October 11. Winthrop will be the Blue Hose’s next opponent at Martin Stadium on October 14. October ends with road games at Furman on October 17 and Longwood on October 28. The regular season finishes with a home game against Big South Conference foe Radford on November 1.
The Big South Conference Tournament begins with two semifinal games played at the teams that finish first and second in the regular-season standings on November 5. The Big South Conference Tournament Championship game will be played at the highest remaining seed on November 11.
Arriving at the milestone of 35 years as the director of the Presbyterian College women’s soccer program this fall, head coach Brian Purcell has announced the Blue Hose’s 2023 schedule. Solidified lastTuesday afternoon, PC’s upcoming slate will feature 16 bouts split evenly at eight apiece between home and road designations.
The full list of matches can be viewed in its entirety at gobluehose.com, as Presbyterian continues offseason preparations for their 17th campaign at the NCAA’s Division I level.
“We’re very excited about the layout of our schedule going into this season,” commented Purcell, Presbyterian’s longest-running head coach department-wide who has led the program since its inaugural year in 1989. “Things seem to be shaping up where we’ll have a very competitive non-conference slate that should guide us to Big South play seamlessly. We are particularly eager to compete against Navy at home in addition to some of our traditional rivals outside of Big South territory.”
Taking on Truett McConnell as a pre-’23 tune-up in exhibition format on August 11, the Blue Hose will officially open the lid on the regular season six days later when hosting Furman for a 7 p.m. first touch at Martin Stadium.
The in-state duel will register as the squad’s third consecutive season-opener against the Paladins and seventh time in PC’s Division I history beginning a campaign against their Greenville foe.
Coach Purcell’s unit will hit the road for the first time for match number two on the semester, facing Kennesaw State for the third time in the past five years on August 20. Presbyterian returns home on the 25th to battle Columbia International before going back to the Peach State for the next encounter, specifically a trip to Atlanta to face Georgia State 48 hours later.
The aforementioned meeting against Navy on the final day of the month will represent the two sides’ first bout since 2010 which will segue into PC’s first sequence of back-to-back visiting roles immediately thereafter. Jacksonville and Davidson will welcome the Blue Hose to their respective sites within the first 10 days of September, the third year in a row going head-to-head with the latter.
Eight matchups outside of Big South action comes to a close on September 14 – which will coincide with Senior Night at Martin Stadium – as PC will check off their first-ever date with Western Carolina.
Another instance of two straight road features will get the Blue Hose off the ground with their league endeavors, traveling to reigning conference tournament champion Radford and UNC Asheville on the 23rd and 27th respectively.
Alumni Day in Clinton will mark the club’s first conference battle to occur on their home turf, jousting with High Point on September 30 before staying in Martin Stadium’s confines four days later for a Gardner-Webb tussle.
PC’s last four contests – all within the Big South’s parameters – will balance between home and away sites, starting with a trip to nearby Winthrop on October 9. Coach Purcell and co. will embark on a week-long rest period before their penultimate Martin Stadium headliner on the 18th versus Charleston Southern.
A shuffle to Spartanburg on October 21 will denote the last occasion away from home for the Blue Hose in the regular season, vying for a spot inside the conference’s top four which means a ticket to the Big South Tournament that will be looming during that USC Upstate clash.
Presbyterian puts a bow on the campaign against Longwood on the 25th, hoping to repeat the result of an overtime victory over the Lancers from four years back.
The conference’s postseason affairs shall begin on November 2 and culminate on the 5th, with the winner receiving an automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Tournament’s field of 64.
PC finished the 2022 slate in eighth place across the Big South, claiming a W in their last two appearances against High Point and UNC Asheville.
