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Columbia's Spirit Communications Park to Join Fold for Tigers-Gamecocks Baseball Series

The netural-site games will be the middle game of the series each of the next four years.
Spirit Communicatons Park

Greenville, SC (Greenville News) - Spirit Communications Park in Columbia will host the neutral-site game of the Clemson vs. South Carolina baseball series in 2020 and 2022, school officials announced on Friday.

Greenville’s Fluor Field will host the neutral-site game in the annual three-game series in 2019 and 2021. With the exception of Charleston’s Joe Riley Park in 2012, neutral-site games in the series have been held at Greenville’s Fluor Field.

The netural-site games will be the middle game of the series each of the next four years.

“We are excited to return to Fluor Field for the 2019 and 2021 seasons to play South Carolina and we are also excited to take this game to a new venue at Spirit Communications Park in Columbia in 2020 and 2022,” Clemson Athletic Director Dan Radakovich said. “With the tickets at Spirit Communications Park distributed equally, we hope to see our loyal fans from the Midlands area for the 2020 and 2022 games. We have a lot of fans in the Columbia area. I talked to (baseball coach) Monte (Lee) about it and he was fine because they’re not all at one place or all at another place.”

South Carolina will receive an equal number of tickets for games at Fluor Field.

Bids for the neutral-site game were taken from venues across the state as well as Charlotte.

“Fluor Field and Spirit Communications Park are among the finest stadiums in minor-league baseball,” South Carolina Athletic Director Ray Tanner said. “Their staffs are committed to making a first-class environment for our student-athletes.”

Fluor Field is the home stadium for the Greenville Drive, a Boston Red Sox affifliate, while Spirit Communications Park is the home stadium for the Columbia Fireflies. Both teams are in the Class A South Atlantic League.

Specific dates and times as well as ticket information for each year’s games will be released at a later date.

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