Construction delays will keep USF baseball, softball teams on campus

Posted Mar 19, 2010 by Scott Carter

Updated Mar 19, 2010 at 01:45 PM

Due to construction delays, the USF baseball and softball teams will continue to play on campus for most of the season.

USF is currently in the process of securing all the proper building permits, which is holding up the start of construction. According to school officials, the delay is not expected to impact both teams opening next season in their new stadiums.

USF’s Board of Trustees approved building new baseball and softball stadiums in early December as part of the school’s $30 million Athletic District.

Tampa-based construction firm R.R. Simmons, which built the USF athletics training center in 2005, has been contracted to build the new facilities.

Due to the delay, the softball team will play its entire 2010 schedule at the USF Softball Stadium, including three Big East series—Pittsburgh (April 21), DePaul (April 24-25) and Louisville (May 1-2) – originally scheduled to be played at the Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater.

As for the baseball team, the Bulls will now play UCF (April 6), Georgetown (April 9-11), Florida (April 21), Villanova (April 23-25), Florida Gulf Coast (April 27) and Seton Hall (April 30-May 1) at Red McEwen Field instead of the University of Tampa or George Steinbrenner Field.

With the revised construction date planned for the first week of May, the USF-UConn series (May 14-16) will be played at Steinbrenner Field.

For a look at the proposed new stadiums, click here.