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Joe Miller Field at Cowgirl Diamond

Location	On Hodges Street north of E Sale Road Lake Charles, Louisiana
Coordinates	30°11′4.7″N 93°12′56.7″W / 30.184639°N 93.215750°W / 30.184639; -93.215750
Owner	McNeese State University
Operator	McNeese State University
Seating type	Bleacher seats
Capacity	1,200
Record attendance	1,228 April 3, 2018 vs LSU
Field size	Left Field: 205 ft Center Field: 215 ft Right Field: 205 ft
Surface	Turf
Scoreboard	Daktronics Electronic
Construction
Built	2002–03
Opened	March 14, 2003
Tenants
McNeese State Cowgirls softball (NCAA) (2003–Present)

Joe Miller Field at Cowgirl Diamond is the home stadium for the Division I (NCAA) McNeese State Cowgirls softball team. Located on the campus of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the stadium has a 1,200 seating capacity. Seating consists of partially covered bleacher seating. The stadium has field lighting, bullpens, dugouts, and a press box. An indoor training facility, the "H.I.T" or House of Indoor Training, located outside the right field fence, allows hitting practice in all weather conditions. A Daktronics electronic scoreboard includes a message board. The initial home game was played on March 14, 2003, against the Southern Miss Golden Eagles softball team.

Adjacent to the stadium is the Hodges Street Fieldhouse, a 5,400 sq ft building opened on June 18, 2008, which services both the softball and soccer programs. The building houses coaches offices; separate locker rooms for soccer and softball; a shared training room; and a conference room.

The 2009, 2016, and 2018 Southland Conference softball tournaments were played at Cowgirl Diamond. In 2016 and 2018 the host McNeese Cowgirls won the tournament.

Attendance

Below is a list of Cowgirl Diamond's 10 best-attended games.

As of the 2018 season.

References

1. ^ "Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics". NCAA.org. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
2. ^ "McNeese Softball Task Force 36" (PDF). McNeese State Cowboys Athletics. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
3. Alex Hickey (April 16, 2015). "LSU Walks Away with a Lopsided Victory". The American Press. Retrieved April 27, 2015. A Cowgirl Diamond record crowd of 1,054 watched McNeese (26-18) take a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first before the wheels came flying off.
4. "Cowgirl Diamond". McNeese State Cowboys Athletics. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
5. "Hodges Street Field House". McNeese State Athletics. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
6. "Southland Softball" (PDF). Southland Conference. July 29, 2014. p. 30. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
7. "2015 Southland Softball McNeese State". Southland Conference. Retrieved April 27, 2015.

External links

• McNeese State Cowgirls Softball Official Website

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