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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2011 18:43:32 GMT -5
Cornerstone University will be adding baseball beginning with the Fall of 2012. CU discontinued baseball around 1995 or 1996, but they will soon begin construction of a new baseball facility, begin the search for a head coach ("manager"?), and plan to begin play in the 2012-13 academic year.
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Post by foresterpride on Sept 15, 2011 20:39:01 GMT -5
What's the thought behind adding baseball? Are they simply trying to field more WHAC sports or are they trying to position themselves, or does the WHAC need another team for some reason.
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Post by Gabriel Christian Wallis on Sept 22, 2011 19:00:34 GMT -5
Baseball has been one of the knocks against them when talks of joining the MCC come up I believe.
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Post by wapiti13 on Sept 22, 2011 19:49:33 GMT -5
While baseball doesn't bring in athletes like football, the west side of the state has some really talented baseball players and this will give Cornerstone a good chance to add some quality kids to their student population that would normally have looked elsewhere.
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Post by foresterpride on Oct 7, 2011 8:57:02 GMT -5
Baseball is actually written in as a required sport of all members in the MCC manual.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2011 19:41:36 GMT -5
CU received a gift of $5 million, 1.5 million of which is for resumption of a baseball program. The remaining 3.5 million is a seed gift toward construction of a $15-$18 million Chapel/Music/Media Studies building. CU will be breaking ground for the new baseball facility in early November, and they plan to break ground for the Chapel/Music/Media Studes building in 2013 - with plans to raise the remaining $12.5 to $15.5 million over the next two years. The desire of the donor was to have CU resume baseball (the program was cancelled in 1998). Currrently, only Cornerstone and Michigan-Dearborn are the only WHAC schools that do not have a baseball program.
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