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Aviators Draw Season-High Crowd of 12,111 For Annual School District Day Game Tuesday

Photo credits: Tom Donoghue

By Alan Snel

LVSportsBiz.com

 

The Las Vegas Aviators are leading the 30 teams of Triple A baseball in total attendance of 230,809 and average attendance of 9,617 after 24 home games at their new ballpark in suburban Summerlin.

 

Twenty of the 24 home games have been sellouts after the Aviators drew a season-high of 12,111 fans Tuesday to the new $150 million ballpark in Downtown Summerlin.

 

The crowd included 6,000 fifth-graders from the Clark County School District on Smoker’s Strike Out 16th Annual School Day Game, sponsored by the American Lung Association.

 

The Aviators, now 23-17 after Tuesday’s 9-7 loss to Tacoma, are the Triple A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. In previous years, the Las Vegas Triple A team was the affiliate of the Padres, Dodgers, Blue Jays and Mets. Now many fans walk the ballpark’s 360-degree concourse wearing the green-and-yellow logo gear of the A’s.

 

The Aviators completed a 12-game homestead at 6-6 and hit the road Thursday for a five-game road trip.

 

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Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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