State Baseball Championships

joshuca · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:51 pm

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State Baseball To UCA
The Arkansas Activities Association announced late last week that Conway will host the state baseball championship games May 20-21.
The championships will be held at renovated Bear Stadium on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas.
Since the championship site format began in 1999, the games had always been held at Baum Stadium in Fayetteville. Because of Arkansas' home SEC finale that weekend, Baum Stadium was not available for use.
Officials tried to have the games moved to Springdale's Arvest Park, but the Northwest Arkansas Naturals are hosting the Arkansas Travelers that weekend.
AAA officials wanted the games at Dickey-Stephens Park, home of the Travelers, but stadium officials declined to bid. Conway instead bid for it and won.
Bear Stadium holds about 1,000 fans and some bleachers can be added down one foul line if needed.

We weren't one of the top choices, but we got it anyway.

BearsFan52 · **Joined:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:45 pm **Posts:** 2575

Nice exposure for UCA and Bears baseball. State championships really should be rotated around the state given adequate facilities. Baum, Arvest BP and DS are all very nice venues ...Bear Stadium seating might be very tight.

joshuca · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:20 pm

I just realized I put this in the wrong forum...oh well.
Seating will be very tight, but the exposure will be nice!

Bear Fan 101 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:47 am

Who cares about tight seating, just get them here, seating will take care of itself. You cant beat that exposure to the facility, and campus, because you just never know who may come see it.

UCAMonkey · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:40 pm

Awesome! Do you think this would've been possible before we built the new stadium? This is huge! Most coaches want the tournament centrally located in a venue like UCA's or Pine Bluff Taylor. Nice facilities but not thousands of empty seats.

BearsFan52 · **Joined:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:45 pm **Posts:** 2575

Is Taylor Field being well kept? It has been a great baseball venue for decades...hope PB and Jefferson County can keep it going.

UpandIn913 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:43 pm

I have worked the HS Baseball State title games the past 2 years and there are a TON of folks that show up for these games. I bet there will have to be extra seating that will need to be brought in for this event (Which is a good problem to have). Glad to see UCA getting the exposure.

Oh and to answer your question, NO UCA would not have been a thought had they still had the old facility. There are better HS facilities than what we had before.

Full Grown Bear · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:18 pm

I played at Taylor Field years ago, it was a fun place to play.

UCAMonkey · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 8:00 pm

I've talked to a few people and they seemed to enjoy having the tournament at UCA. Does anyone know where we could compare attendance totals from past tournament sites and this year's?

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