The Stony Brook University baseball team will be unable to play its first home game at Joe Nathan Field on Wednesday against Farleigh Dickenson University because renovations to the field are not yet completed.
The team will play at Baseball Heaven sports complex in Yaphank, N.Y., instead.
Baseball’s normal home facility, the newly named Joe Nathan Field, is currently unusable. The field itself is all dirt. The dugouts are now home to construction equipment.
The renovations are part of a project that will move the corner fences in and bump the centerfield fences out, add a FieldTurf playing surface and fix up the bleachers and dugouts.
The workers onsite were unable to give any idea as to when the field will be ready to play. The Seawolves play their second home game on March 16 against Iona College.
Stony Brook is 2-4 on the season after being swept by the #17 University of North Carolina Tar Heels at Chapel Hill, N.C.
Farleigh Dickinson enters the game 3-2. They have just come off of a 9-0 win against St. Peter’s University.
