Soccer Schedule Includes Notre Dame, 3 Big Ten Opponents

Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – The Central Michigan soccer team will open the 2018 season with a nonconference game at Michigan State on Aug. 11.

The match kicks off a 20-game slate that includes three dates with Big Ten teams – they will face Michigan and Iowa in addition to Michigan State -- and one with Notre Dame, which plays in the ACC.

The Chippewas will also play nonconference games with Southern Utah, Detroit, Northern Iowa, Oakland and Illinois-Chicago before facing Ohio in their Mid-American Conference opener on Sept. 21.

The game with Ohio comes in the midst of a four-game homestand that begins on Sept. 9 and concludes on Sept. 23 with a game against defending…