| 2008 AWC Matadors Football Schedule Released |
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| Written by Arizona Western College | |
| Monday, 16 June 2008 | |
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Yuma, Arizona - Arizona Western College has announced that the 2008 AWC Football schedule has been released, featuring six home games and five road games as part of the 11-game schedule. The schedule was released just less than two months before the start of preseason football drills at the college, and a little less than three months before the Matadors’ first regular season game of the year at the friendly confines of the Matadors’ home field-Veterans Memorial Stadium-against American Sports University on September 6th. The September 6th will mark the beginning of the Tom Minnick era for Matador Football. Minnick-who led Joliet Junior College to back-to-back bowl appearances in 2006 and 2007-was officially introduced as the new Matadors’ Head Football Coach Monday in a press conference on the AWC campus.The matchup against American Sports University-an NAIA school based in San Bernardino, California-is one of three non-conference matchups for the Matadors in ’08. The Matadors will be one of three Western States Football League teams to face New Mexico Prep (from Albuquerque, New Mexico) in 2008 as NMP will head to Yuma to face the Mats at Veterans Memorial Stadium on October 18th. The other non-conference matchup will be one of their toughest of the season, since it’s the start of the Matadors’ road schedule, and it will take them to Thatcher to face WSFL archrival Eastern Arizona College on September 13th. Besides the two non-conference matchups at home, Veterans Memorial Stadium will host four other exciting clashes for the Matadors in 2008. The Mats will wind up the month of September at ‘The Vet’ with their WSFL home opener against Scottsdale, the team that provided AWC with two of the Mats’ most exciting games of 2007. The New Mexico Prep game on October 18th kicks off a three-game homestand for the Mats as Phoenix College will come to town on October 25th and New Mexico Military Institute will follow on Saturday, November 1st. The Matadors will wind up the 2008 regular season on Saturday night, November 15th with a huge rematch against Eastern Arizona-with this game counting in the WSFL Standings. As always, the Matadors’ home games will have several great promotions involved, including: Pack the House night and Take a Kid to the Game Night (as well as a pre-game tailgate party before the game courtesy of SportsRadio 560 KBLU) on September 6th; Gila Ridge High School night on October 18th; Servicemen Appreciation Night on October 25th, and Homecoming festivities against NMMI on November 1st, preceded by the 4th Annual Matador Football Outback Steakhouse Homecoming Luncheon at Outback Steakhouse in Yuma. That November 1st game is a 2:30PM kickoff and the only day home game on the schedule. All other home games will kick off at 7PM. That September 13th matchup at Eastern Arizona Thatcher begins a five-game stretch that will really test the Matadors, since four of the five games will be away from home against the top four finishers in the WSFL last season. The Matadors will open WSFL play on September 20th with their longest road trek of the season to Ephraim, Utah against Snow College, who played in last year’s national championship game. Two weeks later, the Mats will head to the Phoenix area for the first time in ’08 to face 2005 national champion Glendale on October 4th, and then head right back to the Valley of the Sun a week later to clash with last year’s Valley of the Sun Bowl winner, Mesa Community College. The Matadors’ final road game happens on Saturday afternoon, November 8th, as they face off against Pima Community College in Tucson. |
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