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SWAC Baseball Tournament Heads to Atlanta

It has been announced that the 2023 Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Baseball Tournament will be housed at Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium in Atlanta. The annual end-of-year tournament is scheduled for May 24-28.

 

"We're extremely excited to host our upcoming baseball tournament in the City of Atlanta," said SWAC Commissioner Dr. Charles McClelland. "Aside from what we envision being an extremely exciting and competitive baseball tournament, the City of Atlanta undoubtedly will offer our fans and supporters a wide variety of leisure and recreational activities, restaurants, and hotel accommodations."

 

Under the direction of second-year head coach Reggie Williams, Alcorn Baseball will play a total of 52 games throughout the upcoming campaign. The Braves play 17 of their first 18 games at home in the friendly confines of McGowan Stadium.

 

Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium has been the home of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for almost 90 years. As recently as 2014-15, the stadium underwent a $4.5 million renovation and expansion. The project was designed to equip the Yellow Jackets with the most up-to-date and state-of-the-art facility in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

 

At a current capacity of 3,718, Georgia Tech's baseball facility more than doubled in size when the renovations were complete in 2002. Mac Nease Baseball Park features approximately 1,100 chair-back seats behind the home plate area in addition to more than 2,500 bleacher seats.

 

Mac Nease Baseball Park is the only college baseball facility in the country to be been named "Field of the Year" by the Sports Turf Managers Association three times. Mac Nease Baseball Park remains the only baseball stadium in the Atlantic Coast Conference to have earned the honor, taking the crown in 2008, 2014 and 2019.

 

Alcorn's first pitch of the 2023 season is set to take place on Friday, Feb. 17, as the Braves host Alabama A&M in a three-game nonconference series at McGowan Stadium.

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