Spirit to Host Popular Annual Corporate Night July 23

July 15, 2003 - Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA)
San Diego Spirit News Release


Looking for a way to entertain new or existing clients, show your appreciation to employees or meet new business contacts in the San Diego area? San Diego Spirit Corporate Night combines a business-social mixer, including food and beverages with an exciting high energy-sporting event, showcasing the best professional women soccer players in the world. The event will be held at the USD Sports Center Pool. Guests of Corporate Night will be treated to free appetizers and receive three (3) drink coupons each, redeemable for beer, wine, or soda. (Must be 21 years of age in order to redeem coupons for alcoholic beverages). Door prizes will be raffled throughout the Corporate Night mixer. Prizes include items donated by local businesses as well as San Diego Spirit memorabilia. Corporate Night Prices (Groups of 10 or more required), which include unlimited food, three (3) drink coupons per guest and ticket to the Spirit game. Club Level Seating: $15 per guest, Gold Level Seating: $20 per guest or Platinum Level Seating: $30 per guest. For more information, please call 1-877-4SOCCER.

NEXT ON THE SLATE: Wednesday, July 16, vs. Washington, Torero Stadium, 7 p.m. PT

Soccer superstar Mia Hamm and the Washington Freedom play twice in San Diego on July 16 and August 9. The first contest is this Wednesday, 7 p.m. TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE for Hamm's first match in San Diego since the 2001 season. Pre-game ceremonies will feature Fox 6 Morning News personalities Christina Russo, Desiree Carvajal and Marc Bailey. The Fox 6 "In the Morning" show always hosts a Spirit weather forecast the day before each home game featuring a Spirit player or coach. San Diego and Washington are tied with 21 points apiece in a tightly contested WUSA playoff race. The teams will face each other three times in the next 24 days.

CORRECTION - In yesterday's GAME PLAN, it stated that the Freedom has a one-game winning streak. Washington lost their last outing to the Atlanta Beat, 2-1, on Saturday. We apologize for the error.

FOUNDERS CUP III TICKETS AVAILABLE TO GENERAL PUBLIC - Tickets for the WUSA championship game, Founders Cup III, are on sale now to the general public, with prices ranging from $23 to $150. The 2003 WUSA FOUNDERS CUP Weekend in San Diego will be a three-day extravaganza of soccer-themed events and programs. The festivities will culminate with the championship match, FOUNDERS CUP III, on Sunday, August 24, 2003 at 1:00 pm PT. The weekend will provide an exciting destination for WUSA fans, families and soccer fanatics.

SEASON SERIES UPDATES - With the playoffs just around the corner, the all-important tiebreakers will be coming into play. The season series results will be vital in determining possible playoff positions. The Spirit has won the season series against San Jose, 2-0-1, and New York, 2-0-0; while losing to Atlanta, 0-1-2, Boston, 0-1-2, and Philadelphia, 0-2-1. San Diego is up on Carolina 1-0-0 and still must face Washington three times before the season ends.

BRANAM MOVING UP THE CHARTS - Goalkeeper Jenni Branam moved into third place ahead of Bente Nordby on many club career goalkeeping categories, including games played (5), minutes played (368), shots on goal faced (23), catches/punches (17), and ties (2). Branam, who currently has started four games, only needs one more start to move ahead of Nordby in the games started category and she is currently tied with Nordby for third place in the saves category with 17.

SPIRIT SNAPSHOTS

San Diego is off to its best start with 21 points after 15 games...San Diego has a two-game home winning streak, ...San Diego is 13-0-0 when leading at the 75th minute mark... Joy Fawcett became the fourth Spirit player in club history to be ejected from the game on June 29...Christine Latham became the eighth player in team history to record a two-goal game on July 2...Daniela tallied her first career point on July 2 with an assist vs. San Jose.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

San Diego @ Carolina, Saturday, July 19, 4 p.m. PT, Live on Channel 4 San Diego - Carolina holds a decisive advantage in the series history with a 4-1-2 record all-time versus the Spirit. San Diego's first and only victory in the series was recorded during the last meeting (May 24, 2003). Carolina leads the series 3-1-0 at SAS Stadium, outscoring the Spirit 10-5. Carolina is 2-1-1 in its last four home matches.

QUOTES

Washington Freedom Head Coach Jim Gabarra on Wednesday's match with San Diego. "They've been a real hot and cold team, either playing really well or they can't find a way to get results. What they're looking for is consistency. I think we've had the upper hand but we've had a couple of bad performances against them. It's been a good matchup in the past because they haven't been a very destructive team, they want to play entertaining, possession-type soccer."



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