Georgia Southern sold out of seats for regional, standing room only tickets still available

STATESBORO, Ga. (WSAV) – The Georgia Southern Eagles made as large of a splash as they had been hoping for with ticket gross sales to the baseball crew’s regional playoff match.

All 3,000 seats in J.I. Clements Stadium have been bought, per the college’s athletics division. The announcement got here after tickets had been on sale for simply over sooner or later.

Eagles followers that didn’t get a seat will nonetheless have the chance to purchase standing room solely tickets beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 1. These tickets shall be $50 and permit entry to the stadium for all the match.

This was not precisely a shock; gamers predicted that the attendance document of three,435 could be damaged this weekend. Lots of them have close by household coming, equivalent to senior Austin Thompson, a graduate of South Effingham Excessive College.

“I simply need to give a shout out to my household as a result of they’re superior and so they’ve at all times supported me,” Thompson stated. “That’s an enormous motive why I got here right here. They’re proper down the street.”

“It’s going to be an superior expertise,” added fellow senior Noah Ledford. “I do know J.I. Clements goes to be rocking. I’ve acquired numerous household coming in in order that’s going to be good. I’m actually excited.”

Georgia Southern will play its first recreation towards UNC-Greensboro on Friday at 7 p.m. Notre Dame and Texas Tech will play one another at 2 p.m., with the winner of that recreation happening to face the winner of Georgia Southern’s on Saturday.

The Eagles ended the season because the No. 21 seed within the nation per D1Baseball.com and the No. 16 general seed within the playoff.

For ticket data, go to Georgia Southern’s official portal.