Cal Poly Baseball Hitting Facility

Al Montna/Cal Poly Baseball Hitting Facility

Baseball players began using the new $300,000 Cal Poly Baseball Hitting Facility in November 2012.

Major Donors $100,000+ Jim Newkirk $50,000-$99,999 Ted Lilly $25,000-$49,999 Al Montna Paul Pluschkell $10,000-$24,999 Robin Baggett $1,000-$9,999 Larry Lee Dick Morrow Bill Murray Bob Brayton Dan Chergey Rich Equinoa Randy Fischback Thomas Reilly John Ronca Shannon Stephens Ted Tollner C al Poly's 6,000-squarefoot baseball hitting an issue anymore. The structure can configure into six facility was completed cages or can open up into one for use by the Mustang baseball large space where we can field, team in November 2012. throw, or hit. You get a much

The batting cage features better feel of ball flight when retractable netting, which hitting in the open space, espeallows for three long cages and cially with a 14-foot-high ceilthree short cages. The facility ing. can be set up from a single 120- "Our teams have always put a by-50-foot practice area to sev- lot of time in the batting cages eral space combinations. before and after practice," Lee

Major donors for the $300,000 added. "Having a quality covlighted facility include Jim ered structure with lights Newkirk, Ted Lilly, Al Montna, Paul Pluschkell and makes it that much better." Robin Baggett. It is located down the left-field line Major contractor was Doug Craghead of D.A. adjacent to the Mustang clubhouse. Craghead Construction Inc. in San Luis Obispo. "The new hitting facility is awesome," said West Coast Netting of Kingman, Ariz., installed the Mustang head coach Larry Lee. "Weather is never netting for the facility.