Villanova women’s team hosting four Philly rivals for series of exhibition games

Higgins Soccer Complex has a busy morning of soccer on tap for Saturday morning with five D1 women’s teams from Philadelphia competing in a round robin tournament.

The mini exhibition games kick off at 8:30 a.m. and will be played simultaneously on the two fields at the soccer complex on Villanova’s West Campus. Each team will play four times for a total of 10 games.

Villanova, Temple, Penn, Saint Joseph’s and La Salle will all participate, which is all but one of the Philly Soccer Six schools. Drexel doesn’t kick off its spring season until April 3 at home against Jefferson.

The schedule for the day is as follows:

8:30 a.m. - Game 1 - Villlanova vs Temple, Game 2 - Penn vs St. Joseph’s
9:15 a.m. - Game 3 - Temple vs Penn, Game 4 La Salle vs Villanova
10 a.m. - Game 5 - St. Joseph’s vs La Salle, Game 6 - Villanova vs Penn
10:45 a.m. - Game 7 - Villanova vs St. Joseph’s, Game 8 - Temple vs La Salle
11:30 a.m. - Game 9 - La Salle vs Penn, Game 10 - St. Joseph’s vs Temple