{"id":26664,"date":"2025-12-03T09:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/?p=26664"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:57:21","slug":"mallards-and-night-mares-announce-cru-concrete-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2025\/12\/03\/mallards-and-night-mares-announce-cru-concrete-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallards and Night Mares Announce Cru Concrete Club\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1655.68px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">December 3, 2025<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samantha Rubin<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">samantha@mallardsbaseball.com<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">608-665-1220<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mallards and Night Mares Announce Cru Concrete Club<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major hospitality upgrades for Mallards and Night Mares<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mallards and Night Mares are proud to announce a new partnership with Cru Concrete as the presenting sponsor of a new hospitality space at Warner Park, which will be home to three brand new dugout suites behind home plate, with booking available now for the 2026 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cru Concrete Club will improve the field of play for softball games by creating a permanent backstop 25 feet behind home plate, which is standard for softball and replaces the previous temporary backstop fencing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The construction process began in October and will be finished prior to Mallards\u2019 Opening Day at the beginning of next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cru Concrete Club will provide fans never-before-seen angles of the action at the Duck Pond. The new suites can accommodate groups of 20 to 110 fans. The project will also require a restructuring to the first and second rows of the grandstand seating in sections 104 through 107 to preserve sightlines, which will now have upgraded mesh seats with a drink rail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mallards, Night Mares, and Cru Concrete will combine to donate $5 For each ticket purchased in the Cru Concrete Club to the McKenzie Regional Workforce Center in Fitchburg, which aims to train and connect a new generation of young people in Dane County for quality, family-sustaining jobs at a time when the skilled trades are facing a labor shortage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re proud to create this area along with the Mallards and Night Mares. The added bonus of raising money for a great cause, makes it a home run,\u201d said Cru Concrete President, Ken Kurszewski.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Initial renderings for the Cru Concrete Club are attached. For booking opportunities or further questions about the Cru Concrete Club, please contact the Mallards front office with any questions at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:info@mallardsaseball.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">info@mallardsaseball.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or 608-246-4277.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">##<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Madison Mallards are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. Entering its\u2019 32nd season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in history with 24 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires, and front office staff, nearly 2400 NWL alums have been drafted and over 380 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time All-Star and 2016 Roberto Clemente Award winner Curtis Granderson, three-time Cy Young Award winner and World Series Champion Max Scherzer (TOR), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist and Brandon Crawford and World Series Champion Chris Sale (ATL). As well as 2019 Rookie of the Year and 2019\/2021 Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso (NYM) and 2023 World Series Champion, MLB All-Star, MLB Gold Glove, two-time Silver Slugger winner and two-time All-MLB first team shortstop Marcus Semien (TEX). League games are viewable live on Northwoods League+ (at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/watch.northwoodsleague.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">watch.northwoodsleague.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), ESPN+, and the Northwoods League Network.\u00a0 Learn more and find complete streaming schedules at watchnwl.com. For more information, visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mallardsbaseball.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.mallardsbaseball.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Mallards as your favorite team.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><lite-youtube videoid=\"Fmj8uO2Alw8\" class=\"landscape\" params=\"wmode=transparent&autoplay=1&amp;enablejsapi=1\" title=\"YouTube video player 1\" data-button-label=\"Play Video\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" data-thumbnail-size=\"auto\" data-no-cookie=\"on\"><\/lite-youtube><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31,15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-categories","category-permanentslider","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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