Pioneer football announces time change for Sept. 27 home opener
Marietta will take on Baldwin-Wallace at 7 p.m. in game broadcast by WTAP-TV

Aug. 13, 2008
MARIETTA, Ohio — The Marietta College athletics department announced on Wednesday (Aug. 13) afternoon that its 2008 football home opener against Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) rival Baldwin-Wallace, slated for Sept. 27, will now kickoff at 7 p.m. The start time was moved back one hour so that the game could be broadcast live, locally in Marietta on WTAP-TV. The broadcast is being sponsored by Gene Haynes '53 and State Farm Insurance.

WTAP will carry the game live on its My 5 station (Channel 5), as well as on its web channel, http://www.wtap.com. The game will re-air that night on Fox Parkersburg (Channel 14) at 11:30 p.m. and then again on Sunday (Sept. 28) at 10 a.m. This will be the second time that WTAP broadcasts a live Marietta College football game; it carried the Pioneers' game against Otterbein College last season.

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2008 Marietta College football preview
Pioneers will look for daily improvement this fall

Aug. 4, 2008
MARIETTA, Ohio — The 2008 Marietta College football team will once again go to battle each week against some of the toughest Division III foes in the country. This fall, first-year Head Coach Jeff Filkovski will be leading the Pioneers’ plan of attack and his experience as both a player and coach has Marietta primed for a successful fight. Filkovski, who quarterbacked Allegheny College to the 1990 national title as a senior, spent time as an assistant with the Cologne Centurions of NFL Europe and earned the OAC’s 2007 co-Assistant Coach of the Year while with Heidelberg College.

Filkovski enters the season with an array of returning weapons and is expecting some key newcomers to help provide an immediate impact on Marietta’s game plan. The Pioneers will welcome 70 players back from last year’s squad, which played arguably the toughest schedule in the nation. 13 seniors and 23 lettermen, will make up the core of the returnees.

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