ACC Baseball Championship Relocated From Fenway To Greensboro

Greensboro Hosting '10 ACC Tourney Instead Of Fenway Park As Planned

The '10 ACC Baseball Championship will be held at the 7,499-seat NewBridge Bank Park in Greensboro, North Carolina, instead of Fenway Park as originally planned. ACC Commissioner John Swofford in a statement said that the move is an effort to keep travel costs down by holding the event closer to the center of the league's footprint (ACC). Swofford said that the "geographic center of the league made it very appealing to schools looking to save money until the economic situation improves." In Greensboro, Ed Hardin reports the deal to host the event at Fenway was a one-year contract, and both the ACC and the Red Sox have been "up front with each other through the long process of trying to get the tournament moved." The event also was scheduled for Fenway last year, but the Red Sox "needed to push the tournament back one year." This year, when the ACC "began looking at the possibility of cutting travel costs for tournaments on the geographic fringe of the conference, the ACC asked the Red Sox to push back the agreement another year." The tournament, which will be played this year in Durham, has been played in Jacksonville since '05. Greensboro will host four ACC championship tournaments next year: both the basketball tournaments at the Greensboro Coliseum, the women's golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club and now the baseball championship  (Greensboro NEWS & RECORD, 5/6).