It's a dream come true for fantasy baseball owners and MVP Baseball addicts -- the new State College Baseball team is begging for a name and there's one final chance to add your input.

The semifinal round of the "Name the Team Contest" held by the State College Professional Baseball Club ended Sunday, and the finalists will be announced tomorrow.

It will be up the general public to decide exactly what mascot to cheer for next summer. The final round begins Friday and ends on Sunday, July 10. All voting will take place online at www.statecollegebaseball.com.

The contest began May 27 when area residents were asked to submit names to the organization to help in naming the team. Overwhelming participation from area residents encouraged the team committee to expand the contest from two to three rounds.

After a week of nearly 5,000 submissions, the seven names remaining were the Black Bears, Copperheads, Miners, Mountain Bats, Ridge Riders, Sliders and Stags.

Senior Jeff Lombard said he didn't mind most of the names, but he said some didn't strike his fancy.

"Definitely not Mountain Bats or Miners," Lombard said.

With approval by the short-season Class A New York-Penn League, Minor League Baseball, and review by the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball,

the State College team will enter the league and begin competition at the start of the 2006 season.

Although operated under the same management team as the Altoona Curve, it will not be affiliated with the team's player personnel, and it is in the process of solidifying a major league affiliation.

The new team will be relocating from an unknown city. Since the announcement that a team is being sold can be devastating for ticket sales, the mystery city will remain a mystery until the season is finished.

"The city may or may not have been determined, but we aren't at liberty to say until the season is over," Altoona Curve Director of Communications Jason Dambach said. "The actual transaction will take place after the season."

He also said the team was in the process of clearing the normal hurdles that other teams go through to gain entry to the league.

"We're confident it'll be completed by the time the team is ready to go in 2006," Dambach said.

The team also named Rick Janac as its general manager on May 27. Janac has served as the Curve's assistant general manager since 2002 and will maintain that title while taking on his new duties.

The State College team may be awaiting an identity, but a home is in the works. The new stadium will stand at the intersection of Porter and Curtin roads, across from Beaver Stadium. It has been named Medlar Field at Lubrano Park in honor of Anthony Lubrano, the stadium's largest individual donor, and Charles Medlar, a former baseball trainer and coach who finished his coaching career with a record of 312-141-6.

Construction for the new facility, which includes offices and clubhouses for Penn State, the minor league team and visiting teams, began in the middle of May.

The stadium will have an approximate seating capacity of 6,000 -- 4,027 seats will be in the main seating bowl, 500 bleacher seats will be in right field and a picnic deck and standing-room deck will each hold 600 spectators. Suite-level seats will have a maximum capacity of 264 people.

Facilities will include weight training, medical training and multi-purpose rooms located next to the clubhouses.

A new bus stop on Porter Road may help traffic congestion and aid commuters.

Also included in the plan is a 502-space paved parking lot and a new pedestrian plaza in front of the main entrance. The plaza will serve refreshments at baseball games as well as football games and other scheduled events. The facility is expected to be ready for the start of the New York-Penn League's 2006 slate.

Because of construction, some parking spots for Penn State football ticket holders will be temporarily reassigned for this season. After construction, however, there will be more than 2,000 additional parking spaces.

Junior Joe Micucca was not enthusiastic about the minor league team but was more excited about the prospect of the Penn State team playing in an upgraded baseball facility.

"I'm not really a big baseball fan; I'm more happy that Penn State's getting a new stadium," Micucca said.

Lombard had a more recreational reason to be excited.

"It's another good excuse to tailgate," Lombard said.

Due to construction, the Penn State baseball team will have to wait until the 2007 season to play in the stadium. Because the Penn State schedule ends in late May and the New York-Penn League schedule does not begin until mid June, there is no chance that the team's schedules would overlap.