Humber students took section 527 of the Rogers Centre as their own last Thursday for the Toronto Blue Jays’ final home game of the season. 

The Humber Students’ Federation started selling tickets for Humber’s first-ever Jays game excursion the week of the event and all 100 tickets were gone within a few days.

For only $2 each students were given a ticket for the game against the New York Yankees, transportation there and back, and some tailgate-party pizza before going downtown. 

“Everybody seems to be having a good time,” HSF Programming Director Aaron Miller said during the tailgate party. “Really we want students to enjoy the last game of the season in T.O. and the last fragments of summer.”

Although Miller made the event happen, he admits it was Zohar Sandler, a first-year Humber North student, who suggested the event in the first place.

“I love baseball; I love sports in general. It’s a great way to get a big crowd at a sporting event,” Sandler said. “It’s a good way to interact with a whole bunch of students and have fun.”

The game started off slow with no runs in the first two innings but picked up in the third when Vernon Wells scored a homerun and Jays took a 2-1 lead. 

After the fifth, with Toronto up 7-2, Humber students had nothing to complain about.
“I’m with people I work with and who I go to school with,” second-year Creative Advertising student at Lakeshore, Stephanie Aerts said. “The game’s so entertaining and everyone’s enthusiastic.”

Aerts also said she tried to invite as many people as possible to make the event a success.
“We wanted to make it a big Humber Lakeshore-represent type thing,” she said.
And Aerts and her fellow Humber student crowd did just that; leading the upper bowl in the wave throughout the entire game.  

The Jays game was a first for Aerts and she said she wouldn’t hesitate to go again.
Third-year Business Administration student at Lakeshore, Chris Madott, said the event was a great way to take a break from school during the week.

“It’s a positive distraction,” he said. “What more could you ask for on a Thursday night? The price is right, the people are nice and you have a lot of fun.”

The temperature dropped toward the end of the game but that didn’t put a damper on the night.
“The dome was open all night; it was majestic,” Madott said. 

Jays finished 8-2 over the Yankees to end the series with a bang and give Jays pitcher Roy Halladay his 20th win of the season. 

With the event having a successful turnout, Miller said he will be looking at other sporting events for the future. 

“We may try for the Raptors or the Toronto FC later in the season,” Miller said.