J. I. Clements Stadium
Baseball venue in Statesboro, Georgia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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J. I. Clements Stadium is a baseball venue located in Statesboro, Georgia, USA. It is home to the Georgia Southern University Eagles college baseball team of the Division I Sun Belt Conference. It has a capacity of 3,000 spectators (530 chair-back seats and 2,470 stadium bench back seats) and opened in 2005.[2]
Clements Stadium | |
Location | 700 Fair Road, Statesboro, Georgia, USA |
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Coordinates | 32.429157°N 81.781368°W / 32.429157; -81.781368 |
Owner | Georgia Southern University |
Capacity | 3,500 |
Record attendance | 3,732 (March 8, 2023) |
Field size | 330 ft. (LF), 360 ft. (LCF), 385 (CF), 360 ft. (RCF), 330 ft. (RF) |
Surface | Natural grass; Foul Territory Synthetic[1] |
Construction | |
Broke ground | May 2004 |
Opened | February 12, 2005 |
Renovated | 2017[1] |
Tenants | |
Georgia Southern Eagles (Sun Belt) (2005–present) |
The facility is named after former Georgia Southern baseball coach J. I. Clements.[2] Clements coached the Eagles from 1949–1966 and 1968, leading the team to the 1962 NAIA National Championship. Clements died in 1974, and the Eagles' former venue was named in his honor in 1985.[3] The name was carried over when the new stadium opened in 2005.[2]