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Lamar Hennon Field
The Lamar Hennon Field was dedicated at Lincoln Memorial University's 2017 Homecoming and officially opened to use in the 2018 baseball season.
The facility (when finally complete) will feature seating for over 750 fans, a state of the art lighting system and on-site locker rooms, shower facilities, athletic training tables and offices. It will be all artificial turf except for the pitcher's mound, which will be clay.
One feature to be retained from the old Lamar Hennon Field is the scoreboard, which was moved across campus to the new field site in the summer of 2017.
Field Information:
Capacity:Â 750
Dimensions:Â L-330, LC-375, C-395, RC-375, R-330
Fence: 10 feet high
Dugouts: Enclosed with bathroom facilities in each. LMU - 3rd base line; Visitors - 1st base line
Bullpens: Open air in foul territories near respective dugouts
Batting cages: In left field foul territory adjacent to LMU bullpen.
First game:Â Feb. 9, 2018 - LMU 12, Ohio Valley 1
First ranked team beaten by LMU:Â April 11, 2018 -Â #2 Belmont Abbey (14-11 in 9 innings/7 inning game)
First LMU hit: Tyler Adams (2nd inning) vs. OVU (Game 1) - 2/9/2018
First LMU double: Logan Augustine (5th inning) vs. OVU (Game 1) - 2/9/2018
First LMU triple:Â Seth Hunt (3rd inning) vs. OVU (Game 1) - 2/9/2018
First LMU home run: Timmy Wages (1st inning) vs. OVU (Game 2) - 2/9/2018
The field is part of LMU's Sports Valley" adjacent to state highway 63. It is part of a new slate of facilities including a new softball field, the lacrosse complex, indoor tennis facilities, indoor practice area and other new athletic facilities to be built in upcoming years.
"NEW" LAMAR HENNONÂ FIELD CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
The new field site
Footers for the locker room and dugoutsÂ
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Dugouts/locker rooms under construction
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The field bed being laid down
OLD LAMAR HENNON FIELD - 1989-2017
The "Old" Lamar Hennon Field seated 1,100 (not including the parking areas along the outfield) and was officially dedicated on Nov. 4, 1989.
At the time, it was the oldest athletic facility on campus still in use as the field site itself, then called Cooper Field, had been used since 1910. It was also the home of the LMU Airedale/Railsplitter football team and portions of it were used for track and field events by the LMU track team. Until the renovation of the site in 1988-89, home plate was located in the area now comprising left field, and the stands and LMU tennis courts were adjacent to the right field line.
In the late 1980s, Lamar Hennon, a 1959 graduate of LMU and an All-VSAC catcher, spearheaded the effort to renovate and modernize the baseball facilities as LMU made the move from NAIA to NCAA Division II. The field and stands area were renamed the Lamar Hennon Field in his honor.
