Pouring It On, Let The Seasons Begin

The concrete kept coming on Wednesday morning on the site of the new UNH Stadium.

The pumping unit from Northeast Concrete Pumping sent several truckloads of concrete skyward and the folks from Mas-Con Corp – a commercial masonry and concrete foundation subcontractor out of Laconia - poured it into forms that shape the support structure for the pedestrian bridge.

The bridge support, located on the scoreboard end of the Stadium, stands about 20 feet high and is the tallest part of the construction project to this point.

The bridge will provide access to the concourse level of the stadium.

Down below the bridge support, workers placed yellow poly and forms where more concrete will be poured in coming days for a slab at the base of the stadium.

UNH opens the 2015 football season a week from tomorrow – on Thursday, Sept. 3 (10 p.m., ET) – with a game at San Jose State, an FBS school. The Wildcats play their home opener in exactly a month – against Central Connecticut State University on Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. on Family Weekend.

In the meantime, the new home for the football team and other Wildcat teams, too, is beginning to rise out of the ground.

Pieces of the crane that will be used to erect steel have been arriving on site this week. Steel is due to be delivered and begin going up next week.

The all-purpose Stadium is due to be finished next summer, in time for the 2016 football season.

The Wildcats are ranked as high as No. 7 in the country in FCS going into the San Jose State game.

They went 12-2 to finish last season ranked No. 3 in the nation, which was the highest year-end ranking in program history. The CAA champion Wildcats went 8-0 in conference play to win their first outright league title since 1994 and reached the NCAA Division I FCS Championship semifinals for the second year in a row, matching the deepest postseason run in school history.

UNH plays its first three games on the road before returning to Cowell Stadium to face Central Connecticut. The Wildcats are at Colgate on Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. and at Stony Brook on Sept. 19 at 7 p.m.

Other home games are against Elon on Oct. 3 at 3:30 p.m. for Homecoming, against Rhode Island on Oct. 31 at 1 p.m., against Richmond on Nov. 7 at 3 p.m. on Salute to Service Day and against Maine on Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. for Senior Day.

UNH 2015 football season tickets are on sale now by calling 603-862-4000 or visiting www.unhwildcats.com.

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The UNH women's soccer game is already two games into its season. Most other fall Wildcat teams join the fun this weekend.
Women's soccer played to 0-0 ties with Rhode Island and Massachusetts in home games and closes out a three-game, season-opening home-stand with a contest against Holy Cross on Thursday night at 7 p.m.

The Wildcats won their first America East championship last fall.

They play at Siena on Sunday and play Quinnipiac on Sept. 4 and Kent State on Sept. 6 in the TD Bank Classic at the University of Vermont. They return home to face Temple on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m.

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The men's soccer team plays Hartwick on Friday night at 7 at home on Bremner Field in Marc Hubbard's debut as head coach.

The Wildcats then hit the road for four games and play their next home game on Sept. 19 against Massachusetts on Bremner Field at 7 p.m.

Before that, UNH plays Sunday at Marist and Sept. 5 at Siena and then takes on Central Connecticut on Sept. 11 and UNC Asheville on Sept. 13 in the Windjammer Fall Classic at Vermont.

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Jill Hirschinger's volleyball team, the two-time defending America East champion, heads to Chicago this weekend to open its season in a tournament at Loyola-Chicago.

The Wildcats play two games on Friday, against Loyola at 2 p.m. and against Northwestern at 6 p.m., and then face Wake Forest on Saturday at 11 a.m.

UNH's first seven matches are on the road. The Wildcats are at Northeastern on Sept. 1, and they play Marshall, Holy Cross and Fairfield in the Fairfield tournament on Sept. 4-5.

The first home contest is Sept. 8 against Bryant at 7 p.m.

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Robin Balducci's field hockey team plays a pair of ranked teams at Boston University this weekend to open the season.

The Wildcats play No. 20 Boston University on Friday at 6 p.m. and No. 18 Massachusetts on Saturday at 6. They are at Dartmouth on Sept. 6 and at UConn on Sept. 11.
The home opener is Sept. 13 against Northeastern at 2 p.m.

Allen Lessels
@UNHInsider
Allen.Lessels@unh.edu

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