RUSTON, La. – Louisiana Tech baseball and softball season tickets will be on sale Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 9 a.m. as the Bulldogs and Lady Techsters both open their 2021 campaigns in their new facilities in February.
 
After navigating a tornado in 2019 and the COVID-19-shortened season in 2020, both teams will have brand new facilities to call their own and will be able to play on campus for the first time since April 2019. The new J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park and Lady Techster Softball Complex are on schedule to be ready for the start of each team's respective seasons.
 
The Bulldogs are slated to host 37 home games in their new facility, including three Power Five opponents. The Lady Techsters schedule is still being finalized for the upcoming season, but it will include Conference USA series UTEP and North Texas and a home tournament that will feature Big 12 foe Baylor.
 
Baseball season-ticket holders from the 2020 season will need to call the Louisiana Tech Ticket Office (318-257-3631) to purchase their tickets. This is due to a possible credit being on their accounts from the shortened season this past spring.
 
Although tickets for both baseball and softball will go on sale Tuesday, Nov. 10, seat assignments won't take place until January 11. This marks the inaugural season that tickets will be required for Lady Techster Softball home games as fans have the ability to be part of this new era in the program's history.
 
The seat assignment process will be based on the following criteria for baseball:

• Season-ticket holders from the 2020 season will be assigned first. Within this group, season-ticket holders' seat assignments will also be based on their lifetime LTAC giving and current-year giving to LTAC during the 2020 fiscal year.
• LA Tech fans who are interested in season tickets but did not purchase season tickets in 2020 will be assigned after 2020 season-ticket holders. Again, in this group, seat assignments will also be based on their lifetime LTAC giving and current-year giving to LTAC during the 2020 fiscal year.

The softball ticket allocation process will give first priority to LTAC donors. The order of allocation will be based on the following criteria:

• Current-year giving to LTAC during the 2020 fiscal year.
• The date when a LA Tech fan purchases season tickets for the softball season. This means that fans who purchase on Nov. 10 will get the chance to pick their seats earlier in the assignment process than those who purchase shortly before February 1. 

Members of the Louisiana Tech Ticket Office will be in contact with fans who have purchased season tickets to complete the assigning process for the 2021 season starting January 11. Seat assignments will only be for the 2021 season. Seat assignments for future seasons will take place in the offseason before the 2022 baseball and softball campaigns.
 
In the Bulldogs first season at its new park, home plate chairback seats (1,031 available seats) will cost $200. The third base chairback seats (254 available seats) will be $175. First base line berm seats (75 of these GA seats are available) will cost $125.
 
For those interested in purchasing tailgate tents for baseball, contact Macy Gilliland at 318-257-5155. 
 
The new Lady Techster Softball Complex will have three seating options with specific prices. Chairback seats (284 available seats) will cost $80 apiece, bleacher seats (192 available seats) will cost $50 apiece and first base line berm seats (75 of these GA seats are available) will cost $40 apiece for the season.
 
Fans who purchase any kind of Bulldog Baseball season ticket are also eligible for a combo package for softball season tickets, which would make both bleacher and berm seating just for softball $30 apiece.
 
LA Tech Baseball season tickets will not include 2021 Conference USA Baseball Championship tickets. However, baseball season-ticket holders will have the first right of refusal to tickets for the championship tournament held in Ruston.
 
If the Louisiana Tech Ticket Office oversells an area due to COVID-19 protocols, fans will be given a refund of the difference to the price of the next available area.
 
Deadline to renew baseball season tickets is February 1.
 
The baseball and softball schedules have been released, but LA Tech Athletics reminds fans things could change based on the current landscape of college athletics due to COVID-19.
 
The Bulldogs return a loaded roster for the 2021 season, featuring six seniors who turned down multiple offers to play professional baseball to return to Ruston. Tech posted a 57-24 home record in the final three seasons at the old "Love Shack," which was also its first three seasons with head coach Lane Burroughs in the dugout. Six Diamond Dogs batted over .300 in the condensed 2020 season, including outfielders Parker Bates and Steele Netterville eclipsing the .400 mark.
 
The Lady Techsters notched a 91-29 home record in the final five seasons at the old Lady Techster Softball Complex. Conference USA Freshman of the Year (2019) and Preseason Player of the Year (2020) Lindsay Edwards will lead the Techsters in the 2021 campaign. With the Covid19-shortened season of 2020, the Lady Techsters are still the reigning Conference USA champions after a 45-16 mark and both the regular season and tournament titles in 2019.
 
To purchase season tickets, call the Tech Ticket Office at 318-257-3631, email techtickets@latech.edu, or log onto LATechSports.com/tickets.
 
Any further questions in regards to the seat selection process can be directed to the ticket office or LTAC office. To learn more about becoming an LTAC member visit www.latechalumni.org/ltac.