Surface Synthetic Turf Opened 10 April 2015 Phone +1 304-293-7910 | Broke ground October 17, 2013 Capacity 3,500 Construction cost 25 million USD | |
Location 2040 Gyorko DriveGranville, WV 26534 Field size Foul Lines: 325 feetPower Alleys: 375 feetCenter Field: 400 feet Address 2040 Gyorko Drive, Granville, WV 26534, United States Similar West Virginia University, Hawley Field, WVU Coliseum, Mountaineer Field at Milan Pus, Core Arboretum | ||
Mountaineer baseball at monongalia county ballpark
Monongalia County Ballpark is a baseball stadium in Granville, West Virginia. The stadium, opened April 10, 2015, is the home of the baseball team of West Virginia University (WVU), a member of the Big 12 Conference, and the West Virginia Black Bears of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League.
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Construction
Plans were announced to build a new stadium for the West Virginia Mountaineers baseball team in 2013. Ground was broken for the new ballpark at University Town Centre, an off-campus shopping and entertainment complex in Granville, adjacent to WVU's home city of Morgantown, on October 17, 2013. The ballpark will be a fan friendly design with 2,500 fixed seats with additional hillside and club seating, a fan amenity deck, and a park that will be open year-round. The field will be a synthetic surface, other than the clay pitcher's mound. In August 2014, the Jamestown Jammers of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League, a Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball, announced that they would move to West Virginia, taking the name "West Virginia Black Bears", and use Monongalia County Ballpark as their home stadium.
As a result of inclement weather in February 2015, the scheduled opening of the stadium was pushed back to April 10, 2015.
Attendance
In 2015, the Mountaineers ranked 39th among Division I baseball programs in attendance, averaging 1,801 per home game.
Awards
In the ballpark's inaugural season, it was named the best short season Single A ballpark in the country according to BallparkDigest.com.