BATON ROUGE, La. — Tickets will go on sale Monday for the LSU baseball alumni game, which will be played at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3, in Alex Box Stadium.
Tickets are $5, and all seating will be general admission. The LSU ticket office, located on the first floor of the LSU athletic administration building, is open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Payments may be made by cash, check, VISA or MasterCard.
The alumni game will feature the 2000 LSU squad versus a team of former Tiger players who are active in professional baseball.
“This game is designed to help our players prepare for the season opener,” said LSU head coach Skip Bertman, whose team will begin the regular season Feb. 12 against Virginia. “It will be a great opportunity for our players to compete against excellent talent in front of a large crowd. We want to create the intensity of a regular-season game in Alex Box Stadium in order to be ready when we play Virginia.
“We?re fortunate to have so many active former players who are willing to help us. The game should also be a lot of fun for our fans.”
Among the alumni scheduled to participate are infielder Russ Johnson of the Houston Astros, pitcher Rick Greene of the Cincinnati Reds and first baseman Eddy Furniss, the 1998 college baseball National Player of the Year, who is now playing in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.
Other former LSU stars scheduled to participate include pitchers Doug Thompson, Dan Guillory and Patrick Coogan, first baseman Jeff Leaumont, and outfielders Mike Koerner, Justin Bowles and Tom Bernhardt.
Bertman expects to add more players to the alumni roster in the next few days.
For more information on alumni game tickets, contact the LSU ticket office at (225) 388-2184.