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Last year, the group opened the Leslie Rudd Learning Center, which includes an indoor baseball facility and a learning lab.

In April, the group opened the Leslie Rudd Learning Center, which includes an indoor baseball facility and a learning lab.

Every time Andrew Heaney showed up at Oklahoma Christian University’s indoor baseball facility this winter, throwing several days a week off a mound in one of three pitching tunnels, the Angels starter would draw a crowd of players from the school’s Division II team.

After dabbling in minor league coaching, toying with the idea of culinary school and selling insurance for a year, Wood believes he has found his career calling, purchasing a franchise for a D-BAT indoor baseball/softball training facility that is scheduled to open in Billings around April 1.

But the Fighting Irish have their own advantages, like a booster-funded project to transform a gymnasium into a suitable indoor baseball practice facility, replete with roll-out turf, pull-out batting cages and a portable pitching mound.