Pat Lipira Softball Complex

The Pat Lipira Softball Complex is the home to Missouri Southern Softball. The complex contains two fields: Gene Wild Field and Lea Kungle Field. Kungle Field serves as the home facility for MSSU Softball.

The Lions made Gene Wild Field their home facility in 2000, and defended the facility well, posting a near-perfect 13-1 record that season. In four seasons on Gene Wild Field, Missouri Southern is 122-94. Overall, Missouri Southern now holds a 431-243 record at home.

Lea Kungle Field was completed in the fall of 1985

Lea Kungle Field was dedicated March 20, 1986, as the Lions split a doubleheader against Northwest Missouri State, 1-0 and 1-4.

The Lions made a change in their home field for the 2011 season as Lea Kungle Field became the home field for Southern Softball.

Kungle Field was rededicated on Friday April 8, 2011 after the improvements were made to the field. The Lions split a doubleheader with Fort Hays State winning game one 2-1 and dropping the nightcap 9-5.

The longest winning streak on the field is 21 games from April 25, 1990, when the Lions swept Northeastern State University 5-1 and 3-0, to March 11, 1992, when Southern downed Southwest Missouri State University 5-0. The streak included a perfect 16-0 campaign in 1991, one of two perfect seasons the Lions have enjoyed at Lea Kungle (the other coming in the form of a 15-0 record in 1995).

In 1996, expansion of the softball facility at Missouri Southern began. The facility now includes Gene Wild Field, a press box, concession stand, restrooms, and lights. In 2011, more improvements and a new look to Lea Kungle was unveiled, with new brick dugouts, a storage room attached to first base side, five 10' x 10' hitting stations around the current batting cage, outfield fence moved to 205' in left field and 196' in right field, and bull pens beyond the outfield fences.

The vast majority of the expansion work was donated by Missouri Army National Guard, 203rd Engineer Battalion.

Lea Kungle Field was named in honor of the wife of Arthur Kungle, a former Missouri Southern regent from 1964-90, and an avid sports fan.