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January 12, 2006 LACEY, WA --- The Saint Martin’s men’s and women’s basketball teams debut the new lower level seating in Saint Martin's Pavilion this evening with the women’s tip-off set for 5:30p.m. against Western Oregon and the men at 7:30p.m. against Central Washington, both Great Northwest Athletic Conference contests. The seat replacement culminates a $596,000 pavilion makeover--$26,000 on the floor, $40,000 on the scoreboard and sound system, $100,000 on the roof, and $430,000 on the bleachers. The wood bleachers that had been used since 1968 were replaced with red molded plastic throughout the Pavilion. The highlights of the upgrade are the 357 theater seats behind both team benches and the “SMU” shadowed in black and white in the student section. “The new seating has taken us from a good facility to a first rate basketball arena. In my opinion this is now the standard bearer for GNAC basketball,” said Tim Healy, head women’s basketball coach. The last time the old bleachers were used was when the women played host to Cal State Chico in the Budd Bay Embroidery Christmas Classic on December 21. The men are home for the first time since their December 6 rout of Puget Sound Christian. “We are glad to be back home and the bleachers look great. The improvements to the Pavilion far outweigh the inconvenience of playing elsewhere for a couple of weeks,” said head men’s basketball coach, Keith Cooper.
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