FERRIS HOCKEY & FOOTBALL SEASON TICKETS NOW ON SALE

Season Ticket Packages Represent Substantial Savings Over Single-Game Prices

Football season ticket packages, which include admittance to all five home games during the 2006 campaign, are available for either $40 (reserved) or $25 (general admission). The season ticket package represents a 25% to 35% savings over single-game ticket prices. Individual game tickets, with the exception of the Oct. 28 contest against archrival Grand Valley State, are offered for $10 (reserved) or $7 (general admission). Single-game tickets for the GVSU game will be priced at $13 (reserved) and $10 (general admission).

FSU students are admitted free to all home football games by showing their student identification card. Group ticket packages are also available for groups of 20 or more.

Season tickets are also presently being sold for FSU's 18 home hockey games during the 2006-07 season. The reserved package is $160, FSU faculty/staff season tickets are $150 while FSU student season tickets, which come with an official Dawg Pound jersey, are being sold for $75. The season ticket packages include all home games, including premier games against Michigan and Michigan State, with the exception of postseason playoff games. In addition, for the first time a season parking pass is being offered for $70.

Fans can save 33% by purchasing a hockey season ticket package. The season parking pass, which is available only to season ticket holders, represents a substantial savings of 25% over single-game parking rates.

Hockey reserved single-game tickets will go on sale Sept. 18 and will be $12 (adult), $8 (K-12) and $5 (FSU students) for all games with the excpetion of the four premier contests against Michigan and Michigan State. The premier game tickets, which will be $16 each, will go on sale Oct. 14 following the second period of that evening's non-league game against Mercyhurst. Two different Four for $44 ticket packages, which include tickets to four games (including one premier game), also will be sold starting Sept. 18. Four different games have also been designated as family nights and include four tickets to the game, four soft drinks and two popcorns all for only $32.

Hockey season ticket renewal forms will be sent out early next week. As an important reminder, the season ticket packages include all four premeir games against Michigan and Michigan State as well as the other home games on FSU's 2006-07 schedule.

"Our ticket packages are a great value and represent a substantial savings over the individual game tickets when purchased seperately," said FSU Events, Facilities and Marketing Manager Mike Haggerty. "We'd like to encourage all fans to consider purchasing a season package and help support the Bulldogs."

The Bulldog football team opens the home portion of their 2006 schedule Saturday, Sept. 16, against Saginaw Valley State. Kickoff for the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) contest and annual Fireworks Night event is set for 7 p.m. (EDT). The Ferris hockey team's first regular-season home game of the 2006-07 campaign is Friday, Oct. 6, against Union (N.Y.) starting at 7:05 p.m. (EDT).

Tickets for the 2006-07 season can be purchased through an agreement with Star Tickets Plus and are available at all West Michigan Meijer stores, online at www.starticketsplus.com or by calling (800) 585-3737. In addition, fans can also contact the FSU Athletics Ticket Office inside the ice arena directly Monday thru Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EDT) at (231) 591-2888. However, phone orders for single-game tickets must be purchased through Star Tickets Plus.

Hockey and football season ticket information and prices along with a complete schedule of games is available online at www.ferris.edu/sports/tickets.