Monongalia County Ballpark
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| Location | 2040 Gyorko Drive Granville, WV 26534 |
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| Coordinates | 39°38′41″N 79°59′45″W / 39.64473°N 79.995838°WCoordinates: 39°38′41″N 79°59′45″W / 39.64473°N 79.995838°W |
| Owner | Monongalia County |
| Operator | West Virginia University |
| Capacity | 3,500 |
| Record attendance | 3,415 April 15, 2017 vs TCU |
| Field size | Foul Lines: 325 feet Power Alleys: 375 feet Center Field: 400 feet |
| Surface | Synthetic Turf |
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| Broke ground | October 17, 2013 |
| Opened | April 10, 2015 |
| Construction cost | US$25 million |
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Populous DLA Architecture |
| Structural engineer | Allegheny Design Services |
| Services engineer | M–E Engineers, Inc. |
| General contractor | Mascaro Construction |
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West Virginia Black Bears (NYPL) (2015–present) West Virginia Mountaineers (NCAA) (2015–present) |
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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.
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.
In 2015, the Mountaineers ranked 39th among Division I baseball programs in attendance, averaging 1,801 per home game.
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