INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) has announced a new Baseball Championship Tournament venue for the next three years, as Rent One Park in Marion, Illinois, will host the 2023, 2024, and 2025 postseason events in May of each year.
After spending the last two years at the Lou Brock Sports Complex in St. Charles, Missouri, the GLVC has signed a three-year agreement for this new site to host the eight-team, double-elimination tournament.
“One of our objectives when selecting a facility to serve as a neutral site for a GLVC Tournament is to secure a venue that will enhance the Championship experience for our student-athletes, and Rent One Park in Marion, Illinois, will check that box,” said GLVC Commissioner Jim Naumovich. “This is a beautiful stadium that will offer our teams and fans with all the amenities to create special memories over the four days of the event, and we are looking forward to working with the Rent One Park and VisitSI staffs over the next three years.”
Completed in 2007, the facility can accommodate over 5,000 spectators, including 3,400 chair seats and room for more than 2,000 in a lawn seating area. The Park was previously home to the Southern Illinois Miners of the Frontier League from 2007-2021.
For those fans who cannot attend in person, all four days of action will be streamed live on the GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN), using a new pay-per-view model with pricing details forthcoming. The action can be viewed on GLVCSN.com or the many GLVCSN apps available on Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as OTT platforms on Roku, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV.
“Rent One Park is a multi-use venue but, at its core, remains a baseball stadium first and foremost,” said GM of Operations & Events Dave Kost. “Partnering with collegiate conferences like the GLVC not only strengthens the Rent One Park brand but truly speaks to our mission of providing community-focused entertainment that can be enjoyed by everyone searching for quality-of-life experiences available in Southern Illinois.”
ABOUT RENT ONE PARK
Rent One Park, a 5,500-capacity ballpark constructed in 2007 boasts 3,500 chair seats, 2,000 lawn seating, four full-service concessionaires, 14 Premium Suites, The Diamond Club Banquet Room, high-definition video board, and Team Store. Under new ownership, beginning January 2022, Rent One Park has transitioned to a community-based, multi-use entertainment venue playing host to countless anchor events that include a new collegiate wood bat franchise in the Prospect League that will launch its inaugural season June 2023.
ABOUT GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE (GLVC)
The Great Lakes Valley Conference is one of the premier NCAA Division II conferences, made of 13 member institutions from three Midwest states (Illinois, Indiana, Missouri) and comprised of 8,000 student-athletes, 64,000 students and 600,000 alumni. Founded in 1978, the GLVC has grown to sponsor 24 Conference championships and is among the nation’s elite in academic and athletic success. GLVC schools have captured 20 NCAA Division II national championships, including 11 on the men’s side – seven of which are in basketball – and the most recent coming for University of Indianapolis women’s lacrosse in 2022. Among the 23 NCAA Division II conferences analyzed in the December 2021 report published by the national office, the GLVC ranked tied for second in the Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) at 69 percent and tied for third in Academic Success Rate (ASR) at 84 percent for all student-athletes. The GLVC is also home to the GLVC Sports Network – the first NCAA Division II conference-wide digital streaming network that launched in 2014. GLVCSN can be found on
GLVCSN.com, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, and Roku devices, as well as iOS and Android mobile apps. For more information about the GLVC, visit
GLVCsports.com.