2025 Schedules

[SierraFD3soccer]

Elizabethtown

Replaces Alfred and Washington College with an opening game @Ithaca and then home v. Penn State Berks and then replaces Lebanon Valley (who it lost to 6-0 last season) with Hood.  The Franklin & Marshall and Messiah games back-to-back, with both being away, sounds like a killer.

Interesting that Elizabethtown is playing F&M on a Saturday. For many years, the Boot Game was on a Wednesday and the same week in Sept. 46 years in a row. Usually a great turnout at both places.

Bonus - you can watch the game free unlike last year at E-Town!

Like LVC, hopefully, E-Town has a better grass field this year after several rough years.

[Kuiper]

Hardin-Simmons

Tough opening game of the season at Texas Lutheran.  After that, they play a number of games against familiar SCAC opponents, including a trip to Houston to play St. Thomas on 9/6 and then a game against Concordia three days later.  The H-S schedule gets really interesting from 9/18-9/20, with Hardin-Simmons playing Trinity on the 18th, Trinity playing Christopher Newport on the 19th in Abilene at H-S, and then Christopher Newport playing at Hardin-Simmons on the 20th.  Three must-see games in a row.  Plus, it's one thing for Christopher Newport to travel to San Antonio to play H-S and Trinity, but to travel to Abilene?!  It's not that different flight-wise (probably fly from Norfolk with a change of plane in Dallas), but let's just say there's no Riverwalk in Abilene, although they do have something called the Cedar Creek Waterway.  Fortunately, all three games are at 7:30 pm because the average high in Abilene that time of year is in the low 90s.  Last year, the high was 95 degrees.  It could still be in the 90s during warmups and stay in the 80s all game, which might make this a real conditioning test for CNU.   

The H-S conference schedule is a reminder that there are only 4 schools left for soccer in 2025-2026 before reinforcements arrive in the form of McMurry and Schreiner (who they play as non-conference opponents this season).  All teams in the ASC are playing a home-and-away against every other team, but H-S manages to fit in a non-conference game at Belhaven in Jackson, MS on a Wednesday between a game at Mary Hardin-Baylor on a Saturday and a game at Marshall, TX against East Texas Baptist on Friday evening.  That's an 8.5 hour drive to Jackson on a Wednesday, so I wonder if they have some kind of school break and they are staying over in Jackson on Wednesday night and traveling on Thursday to play ETBU on Friday (halfway between Jackson and Abilene).  Otherwise, that's a heck of a lot of travel during the week, even for a Texas school.

[Ejay]

Interesting that Elizabethtown is playing F&M on a Saturday. For many years, the Boot Game was on a Wednesday and the same week in Sept. 46 years in a row.

Not that it matters, but I'm confused by the above statement.
2024 - Wed 9/11
2023 - Sat 9/8
2022 - Sat 9/10
2021 - Sat 9/11

[SierraFD3soccer]

Interesting that Elizabethtown is playing F&M on a Saturday. For many years, the Boot Game was on a Wednesday and the same week in Sept. 46 years in a row.

Not that it matters, but I'm confused by the above statement.
2024 - Wed 9/11
2023 - Sat 9/8
2022 - Sat 9/10
2021 - Sat 9/11

You are right. My mistake.

[SierraFD3soccer]

Muhlenberg

https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2025

I think the first Cent. Conf. team to post.  They appear to not play any particularly tough out of conf. teams.

[Kuiper]

Muhlenberg

https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2025

I think the first Cent. Conf. team to post.  They appear to not play any particularly tough out of conf. teams.

They replaced Scranton, Kean, TCNJ, and Salisbury with Neumann, FDU-Florham, Rutgers-Camden, and Widener.  Probably a similar SoS, if not a little better.

[BigSoccerFan]

Rowan s schedule is on instagram

[Kuiper]

Rowan s schedule is on instagram

A step back from the Murderer's Row string of non-conference games in last season's schedule (F&M, Johns Hopkins, Cortland, Mary Washington, Christopher Newport, Messiah, and Washington College), but they can hardly be blamed for that.  Opening with NYU and Gettysburg away and Cortland at home is no picnic in the park and they still have F&M at home and Messiah away to contend with this season.

[Kuiper]

Lewis & Clark

The watch continues for their first win! For those who aren't familiar with them, Lewis & Clark re-started their men's soccer team in 2022 and in three seasons they are 0-47-1.  The biggest question mark on the 2025 schedule is why they are playing DI University of Portland in their first scrimmage of the preseason.  Seriously, what does Portland get out of this game even if they are playing their deepest reserves?  I guess they are only 12 miles apart, so it's convenient.  In any event, it's just a scrimmage.  In non-conference, L&C play three NAIA teams and Whittier from the SCIAC, which presumably will be playing another NWC team while they are in the area.  The rest of the games are home-and-away contests with NWC foes. L&C's best chance for a win might be Bushnell (NAIA) in the first game of the season.  Linfield beat Bushnell 4-1 last season in their first game of the season, although Bushnell beat Pacific 3-1 the next game.

Luther

A bit of a downgrade as CMS, Redlands, Franklin, and North Park are replaced by Wisconsin-Superior, Wisconsin-River Falls, and St. Scholastica, but they still play a lot of tough teams with Macalester, St. Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus, Wisconsin-Platteville, and Augsburg.

[SierraFD3soccer]

Rowan s schedule is on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ7SSVAxMB4/?img_index=2