http://www.niutoday.info/2012/04/24/tick...m-stadium/

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, at Elfstrom Stadium, home of the Kane County Cougars.

Adult tickets are $5 while children age 14 and younger can get in for $3.

Elfstrom Stadium is located in the Kane County Events Center, just south of the intersection of Roosevelt Rd. (Rt. 38) and Kirk Rd. on the East side of Geneva.

Fans who are unable to make the game can watch online at NIUHuskies.com as the game will be streamed free of charge on Huskie All-Access.

This will be a World Class game!

(04-25-2012 12:17 PM)HuskiemobileMan Wrote:  This will be a World Class game!

Especially if Jim Phillips is there and officially proclaims it as such.

It's actually called 5th 3rd Field now.

(04-25-2012 04:56 PM)tubaguy21 Wrote:  It's actually called 5th 3rd Field now.

I wonder where the first four 3rd Fields are?

(04-25-2012 04:56 PM)tubaguy21 Wrote:  It's actually called 5th 3rd Field now.

What the heck. If they can get a stadium sponsor hen why not us!

(04-25-2012 05:18 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-25-2012 04:56 PM)tubaguy21 Wrote:  It's actually called 5th 3rd Field now.

What the heck. If they can get a stadium sponsor hen why not us!

Heard this blurb at the Spring game. A minor league team (independent league like Joliet and Schaumburg) approached Peters last Summer and offered to rehab the baseball field, add lights, new seats, concourse etc. They would use the field in the Summer and the NIU team would not be effected. They did however want to sell alcohol, so they were turned down. Not sure if it was university rules, NCAA rules or just Peters, but that's the story I heard.

Same thing happened in the 1980s at Illinois. The university built a nice, new ballpark yet turned down the chance to be the home of a minor-league team because it wanted to sell beer.

(04-25-2012 09:44 PM)golf4501 Wrote:  

(04-25-2012 05:18 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-25-2012 04:56 PM)tubaguy21 Wrote:  It's actually called 5th 3rd Field now.

What the heck. If they can get a stadium sponsor hen why not us!

Heard this blurb at the Spring game. A minor league team (independent league like Joliet and Schaumburg) approached Peters last Summer and offered to rehab the baseball field, add lights, new seats, concourse etc. They would use the field in the Summer and the NIU team would not be effected. They did however want to sell alcohol, so they were turned down. Not sure if it was university rules, NCAA rules or just Peters, but that's the story I heard.

I once asked AD Compher about beer in the West stands and he said it wasn't happening. I don't know who the decision is coming from but there is definitely high up people that dont want beer insight within any of our stadiums. I guess the football and convo suites are a different story.

(04-25-2012 10:37 PM)beachboy Wrote:  Same thing happened in the 1980s at Illinois. The university built a nice, new ballpark yet turned down the chance to be the home of a minor-league team because it wanted to sell beer.

I respect the school officials decision but in todays economy can you really afford to not take deals like this? A private organization renting a field and selling beer during Summer school should not be that much of a concern.

How nice would it be if this could pay for the baseball team to have field turf so they dont have to worry about a torn up field if they play on it the day after a big rain storm.

Outside of the alcohol sales, as the people of Zion know now, there are people involved in Independent Leagues that are more than a little suspect.

Hell, even the more benign Rockford indy league operation has their stadium in foreclosure.

Considering the summer collegiate team based in Sycamore doesn't have great attendance, someone interested in operating an independent league team (with only a slightly better talent level) in DeKalb seems like a dubious partner.

Now, if alcohol sales were an obstacle to the summer collegiate team taking up residence in the summers- that's a slightly different story. See the DuPage Hounds at Benedictine in Lisle. There you're only expecting mild facility enhancements from a partner that might last longer than an indy team.