A first-class baseball program christened its new first-class baseball stadium Saturday.
Before a list of dignitaries that included former Major League star and alumnus Will Clark,
Jesuit (New Orleans) christened $8 million John Ryan Stadium with a 6-1 victory against Holy Cross. Nearly 1,500 people attended the opener.
"This is really big because you got a chance to see how successful Jesuit athletics have been over the years and now to have a facility like this is pretty amazing," Clark, a 1982 graduate, told
The Times-Picayune.
The new stadium features FieldTurf and has such amenities as a covered grandstand and a digital widescreen scoreboard, as well as a 2,400 square-foot batting facility behind center field.
The stadium is named after John Ryan, a 1970 Jesuit graduate who donated $1 million for the facility.
Courtesy of Jesuit baseball