I really like the Wheaton College field. It is a work in progress, it is behind a American Legion building off campus. They put in bricks behind home plate and great brick dugouts. The field looks great, for a artifical turf field. I still don't like turf fields but they do a slendid job of upkeep. The weird thing is seeing the lip on the pitchers mound as high as it is. Oh well. The stands are just bleachers still and they only have port a johns and no concessions.
Like I said it is a work in progress. They are in the process of raising funds to put in bleachers, and press box and concessions. They need to add some more parking and maybe pave some more of the parking lot. It is hard to get a (friends) wheelchair around by home plate.Plus they could use a loud speaker as it is impossible to follow the game trying to keep score. There are no lineups and no loud speakers. The stat sheet is good, but I had a feeling that at least one of the numbers on the Wesleyan lineup in the second game was off.
It was a double header today between the Illinois Wesleyan Titans and the Wheaton College Thunder. The Titans won the first game 7-2. The Thunder start Michael Kauffman pitched very well. He got into the ninth, he was only touching the mid 80's and in the late innings was in the high 70's. Today he gave up his first earned runs on the season after more than 20 innings pitched. Wesleyan got to him in the eighth and ninth innings to build their lead.
The second game of the double header was a 13-12 win for the Titans. I left after the second inning as my friend got cold. The Titans starter Robert Romero got hammered in the first, giving up three runs. He threw a ton of curveballs.
I can't wait to see this park when it is finished. I probably will be back later in the year as it is really close to home.
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