Thursday, August 21, 2008

Utes' Travel Notes on Tobacco Road

The first road trip of the season started yesterday (Wednesday) as we flew from SLC to Raleigh-Durham airport. With the two hour time difference, we arrived at 12:00 A.M. local time and got to the hotel in Winston-Salem at about 1:15 A.M. It's amazing how IHOP, Wendy's and MacDonalds' can sound so good when nothing else is open!

Thursday was EVENTFUL to say the least. It began with the nail-biting Gold Medal Soccer Game between the USA and Brazil, which the US won by a 1-0 score in overtime.

Then we headed off to the campus of Wake Forest University, just five minutes away for a little day-before-the-game kick around. Spry Stadium, the home of the Demon Deacon soccer team, is a beautiful park for soccer and we are looking forward to Friday's game.






























After training and dinner, we walked a few blocks to Ernie Shore Stadium to watch the minor league baseball game between the Winston-Salem Warthogs and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. The evening was relaxing and filled with all kinds of fun...we will be using material from the game on the blog for a while! It was Cap Night, so the team members each got a free baseball cap. And the team was introduced during the middle of the 4th inning. See photos and video below for more fun!




Member of the Ute team pose with Wally the Warthog while enjoying the minor league baseball game on Thursday night.










Sophomores Alyssa Toomey and Morgan Skeen participate in a "dance off" during the 6th inning break...This is stuff of Ute team legend and there will be video to come....Can't Miss TV here!














Freshman Chelsea Forbes gets help with an "itch" on the nose while posing for photos as a Warthogs player