page_title: Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball
section_title: Hawks Field
hierarchical_section_title: Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball / Hawks Field
caption_attribution_description: English: My photograph of the Nebraska Cornhusker baseball team playing Fresno State at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.
context_page_description: The Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team competes as part of NCAA Division I, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. The program began play in 1889.
  Nebraska has been to 17 NCAA baseball tournaments and advanced to four super regionals and three College World Series. The Cornhuskers have won seven regular season conference championships and four conference tournament championships. They have had eighteen 40-win seasons, including nine since 1999, as well as three 50-win seasons. The Cornhuskers won the program's first Big Ten championship in 2017.
context_section_description: From 1979 through 2001, the Cornhuskers played at Buck Beltzer Stadium, where they went 527–137. Buck Beltzer seated 1,500 and had an AstroTurf infield and grass outfield. The stadium was shoehorned into a very tight space; right field was adjacent to the south end zone of Memorial Stadium, and first base was across a frontage road from an overpass leading to Interstate 180. The final game at Buck Beltzer was on June 2, 2001, when the Cornhuskers completed a sweep of Rice to win an NCAA super regional and advance to the College World Series for the first time. 
  On July 30, 1999 the University of Nebraska–Lincoln announced plans for a new baseball facility, Haymarket Park, which included both Hawks Field and a softball stadium. Hawks Field is named after one of the primary donors that contributed to its construction, and the entire facility is named because of its location in Lincoln's historic Haymarket District. The park opened on March 5, 2002, a 23–1 Nebraska win over UNK. Nebraska is 18–1 in home openers at Hawks Field, but saw its streak of 40 consecutive home-opening wins end in 2018.
  Hawks Field is often listed among the finest ballparks in college baseball. Its capacity is 8,500, with 4,500 seats and berms in the outfield. Hawks Field is the first collegiate venue to use the SubAir system to heat and cool the field year-round, and was selected as the best playing surface in the country in each of its first six years. In 2003 and 2007, Hawks Field won the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) Collegiate Baseball Field of the Year Award, the only park to win the award multiple times. Nebraska has ranked in the national top 25 in average attendance every year at Hawks Field. An LED videoboard was installed in 2012 which nearly tripled the size and resolution of the ballpark's original video screen. The widescreen display is 17 feet tall and 34 feet wide.
  Alex Gordon Training Complex
  The $4.75 million Alex Gordon Training Complex is designed to allow Nebraska's baseball and softball teams to practice year-round. It has 18,000 square feet of practice space and can be configured to include as many as six batting cages. The cages can also be retracted to open up the space for live game simulation and batting practice.
caption: Hawks Field
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