Contact: Kenneth Billings
The first--and only--home games of the Mississippi State University Ice Dog hockey team will be held this weekend at the Bancorpsouth Arena in Tupelo.
The face-offs with Loyola University of New Orleans take place at 7 p.m. Friday
[Nov. 14] and at 7:30 p.m. Saturday [the 15th].
Tickets are $5 each and may be purchased from a team member or at the door prior to game time.
The Ice Dogs are four games into their first season of a 10-game 2008-09 schedule. They will be taking part in the Southeastern Conference tournament in February.
For more information about the Ice Dogs team and the full season schedule, visit www.dawgicehockey.org or contact organizer and team member Patrick Swartz at 662-435-1549. Swartz is a senior history major from Columbus.
Faculty adviser Leo Lynch, an associate professor geosciences, may be reached at 325-2910.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.