Sentence examples for home contest from inspiring English sources

Penn State is scheduled to play its last home contest of the season — its traditional senior day game — one day later, against Nebraska.

Britain's large cricket-loving Pakistani-descended population means that any match it plays in England has the atmosphere of a home contest.

Missouri is an underdog against Oklahoma in the Big 12 title game, according to Sheridan, but West Virginia is expected to win its final game, a home contest with neighboring Pittsburgh known as the Backyard Brawl.

Eight of their next 11 games are at home, where they are 18-12, and they have a strange five-game break between Sunday's game against Orlando and Saturday's home contest with Milwaukee.

In addition, they bank on staging seven out of 12 games at home (two words: ticket revenue), which usually means buying at least one so-called guarantee game, a home contest against a lesser opponent.

"You could see the anxiety in the crowd after they were reduced to 10 men," said Wigan's manager Roberto Martínez following the club's 100th home contest in the top tier.

That is because Brett Favre rarely loses these kinds of key home contests.

For this season, nearly two-thirds of the Mets' 81 home contests are classified as silver, gold or platinum games.

The squad regularly performs choreographed routines during the team's home contests.

During the Golden Age of Television, he tailored the game's rules to strengthen its appeal to mass media and enforced a policy of blacking out local broadcasts of home contests to safeguard ticket receipts.

This, however, did not deter coach Diego Simeone from continuing to start him, and he responded by netting three goals in two home contests, against Deportivo de La Coruña in the league (6 0) and Getafe CF in the season's Copa del Rey (3 0).