Vermont Heads to Halifax This Week For Two
Published on January 6, 2008 under American Basketball Association (ABA)
Vermont Frost Heaves News Release
South Burlington, Vt.-The Vermont Frost Heaves, 15-3 and riding high in the ABA Power Rankings, will make a midweek trip to Halifax to play the Rainmen in the Metro Centre on Wednesday, Jan. 9, and Thursday, Jan. 10. The games will take the place of two road dates lost when the Strong Island Sound suspended operations last month.
The Frost Heaves and Rainmen have played twice this season, with Vermont scoring an easy home triumph in November, and narrowly beating its hosts in Nova Scotia in December.
Tip-off for each game will be 7:15 p.m. Atlantic time, or 6:15 Eastern. Joe Salerno will broadcast both games over the Vermont Frost Heaves Basketball Radio Network, which originates with WSNO AM 1450 in Barre, and includes WJOY AM 1230 in Burlington and an audio stream available at vermontfrsotheaves.com.
The Frost Heaves return home for a 4:05 p.m. matinee with the Manchester Millrats on Saturday, Jan. 12, at Burlington's Memorial Auditorium. All kids 14 and under who wear a basketball jersey of any type will be admitted at the door for half-price.
The following day, also at Memorial, the Montreal Royal visit for a 2:05 p.m. tip. The Burlington High boys varsity will lead a food drive for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, so fans are encouraged to bring a nonperishable food item to donate.
Tickets for any Frost Heaves home game may be purchased at the door beginning one hour before tip-off; by going to flynntix.org; by calling 802-86-FLYNN; or by stopping by the Flynn's main box office at 153 Main Street in Burlington. Tickets for games in Barre are also available at First In Fitness in Montpelier and Allen Lumber in Barre. Groups of 20 or more may call the Frost Heaves' office at 802-860-0082 for discounted rates.
Vermont home games are also Webcast live and archived for rebroadcast at vermontfrsotheaves.com. In addition. affiliates of the Vermont Access Network in Barre, Burlington, Cavendish, Hartford, Hyde Park, Ludlow, Lyndonville, Montpelier, Newport, Plymouth, St. Albans, St. Johnsbury, Windsor and Woodstock rebroadcast Frost Heaves home games over local cable systems, and Burlington Telecom makes them available to subscribers as a video-on-demand option.
The presenting sponsor for Frost Heaves Webcasts is the Vermont State Employees Credit Union.
Radio broadcasts of all Vermont games, home and away, may be heard on WSNO AM 1450 in Barre; WJOY AM 1230 in Burlington; and on the Web at vermontfrsotheaves.com, while WLVB FM 93.9 in Morrisville carries a select Frost Heaves "Game of the Week."
The Frost Heaves Official Team Sponsors are the Vermont State Employees Credit Union and the Vermont Army National Guard.
For more information, visit vermontfrsotheaves.com.
Note: OurSports Central no longer actively covers the American Basketball Association (ABA) as a professional league due in part to its inability to publish and play a schedule and the transitory nature of many of its teams. For information on professional minor leagues, please see OSC's basketball section.
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