Wittenberg Field Hockey To Appear on Time Warner Cable This Week

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Time Warner Cable will continue its coverage of Wittenberg University athletic events with a field hockey game against Ohio Wesleyan on Oct. 29 at Edwards-Maurer Field.

The field hockey game will appear at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30 and 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2. The programs can be found on Time Warner Cable systems on channel 25 or 69 in Dayton, channel 30 in the Dayton suburbs and channel 59 in communities further north. Subscribers are encouraged to check their local listings.

The Tiger field hockey team is currently ranked 17th in the nation in NCAA Division III with a record of 14-3. Just as important is the team’s mark of 9-2 in the North Coast Athletic Conference, which puts Wittenberg atop the standings with one game left in the annual regular season round robin. The game against Ohio Wesleyan is Senior Recognition Night for the Tigers, at which time five outstanding athletes will be recognized for their contributions to the program.

Wittenberg and Denison are currently tied for first in the NCAC standings, and each team has one game left on the 2002 regular season schedule. If both teams win, either in regulation or overtime, they will share the NCAC regular season championship, and tiebreakers will come into play to affect the seeding of the first-ever conference tournament, which begins with semifinal action on Saturday, Nov. 2. The tournament title game will be played at the campus of the highest remaining seed on Saturday, Nov. 9. The winner of that game earns the NCAC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament, which begins Thursday, Nov. 15.

Time Warner Cable owns and manages the world's most advanced, best-clustered cable television operations, with 90 percent of its 12.6 million customers in systems of 100,000 subscribers or more. It is a division of AOL Time Warner Inc. Time Warner Cable's Western Ohio Division serves more than 400,000 customers in 28 counties.

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