Show Bruins Baseball Team Gets a Field Corey Bullock Contributing Writer The second year baseball team will be given a practice facility facility ty on the purpose multi-purpose field at the Redwood Campus located west of the Lifetime Activities Center The field is is' currently used for soccer and intramural play We are to build some practice facilities out there on the Redwood Campus Athletic Director Norma Carr said Hopefully we will have some batting batting batting bat bat- ting cages bull bullpens pens and an infield In order to keep the field one of many uses a backstop will not be constructed Carr said We also hope to keep the integrity of the purpose multi-purpose field so there wont won't be a backstop This word comes after a year of buses breaking down and not having having having hav hav- ing an on-campus on practice or playing playing playing play play- ing facility for the team The baseball baseball baseball base base- ball team spent time traveling around the valley practicing at dif dif- dif dif- ferent facilities throughout the region As for a permanent playing facility facility facility facil facil- ity the team and fans will still have to be patient The plans right now are to continue and play at Alexander Dahl Field in Midvale where the team played their home games this past season We are hoping to build a stadium stadium stadium um on the new Jordan Campus Carr said It may be a couple of years down the road but we didn't want to squeeze something in that didn't fit on the Redwood campus We would like to attract a facility in which we could attract state tournaments tournaments tournaments ments and other things down the road Questions about the time frame for completion of a permanent playing playing playing play play- ing facility and funding are still in question Long range we would like to build a stadium Carr said It may have to be done in phases accor according ing to the money Carr adds We are not unique in 9 t L r. jy i I i y s 1111 hi f 5 X FIc F- F U i f i t Ic a I Photo by Clarke Caldwell McEwan Bender pitches at the Bruins home-away-from-home home Dahl Field terms of our plight other baseball teams in the conference didn't have facilities when the started there pro pro- grams Here at our first basketball basketball basketball bas bas- teams played at any gym available Carr also suggests that the baseball baseball baseball base base- ball team is not forgotten and that the athletic department is working hard on the needs of the new pro pro- gram We feel that what hurt us the most was our practice facilities and we are taking steps to alleviate that so we can be more competitive Carr said |