St. X opened its brand new Ball Park last night in a big way with a 4 1/2 inning shut out against Meade County.

 

Damon McCormick had a no hitter going until the top of the 5th inning when Meade co. eeked one by the second baseman. There was a collective grown from the home crowd when it happened.

 

Eric Brewer gets credit for the first hit; in the first game ever at Tiger Park. That'll be something to tell his grandkids.

Birdie, I'm assuming you were able to make the game last night. How was the crowd and any general comments about the new ball park?

I was there and it was an overflow crowd, if it keeps up like that they will have to add a few more seats. The place is beautiful, love the score board and sound system as well as the bull pens and wide foul lanes. It looks like it will be tough to hit home runs, deep with a high fence. First class all the way! The mound and plate have artificial dirt, very cool.

Xtiger69 was accurate. The crowd was not a sellout, but it was large by high school standards. The facility is absolutely top notch.

Fantastic to hear. Great way to break in the new field!

Birdie, I'm assuming you were able to make the game last night. How was the crowd and any general comments about the new ball park?

 

It was a very nice crowd. Mostly X fans as one would imagine. They ordered 300 commemorative miniature bats for opening of the new ball park and they all were gone in a matter of minutes.

 

This field is one of the best High School fields in the state. It has state of the art sports turf in color coded areas to look just like a regulation field. A regulation dirt mound and circle around home plate. It is 330 feet done the lines, 375 in the alleys and 405 in center field. The home and visitor bullpens are located directly behind their respective dugouts for easy access by each team. The dugouts are properly equipped with slots and cubby holes for bat and helmet storage.

 

Outside the fences, the Park has a large concourse area as you enter for fans to gather before during and after the game. It has a stadium seating area that surrounds the back stop from dugout to dugout. It has very wide aisles for comfort and ease of entry, exit and re-entry by spectators. It has a large press box with lots of windows for good viewing by many. It has a state of the art score board that not only keeps track of the score, but keeps track of the score by inning, shows hits and errors, shows the player at bat number for identification in your program. There is a PA and sound system that is unbelievable. Each player has his own personally selected song that plays when he comes to the plate that is preprogrammed.

 

A lot of effort and thought went in to making this park a players park as much as a spectators park. :thumb:

It was pretty cool, they had several former X baseball coaches, 4 ceromonial first pitches and handed out green H&B bats with gold lettering "St.Xavier, Tiger Field, Inaugural Game" 330 to each foul poles, 375 to the power alleys and 400 to the center field fence. A good time was had by all.