Evansville, Indiana Scoreboards: Baseball Leads 29 of 53 Entries, With the LX1050 on Top

If you run a ball field or a gym in Evansville, Indiana, Electro-Mech's sales and shipping record for the city answers a practical question: what did schools, parks and leagues here buy? Baseball carries that record, with 29 of 53 entries. The gym comes second. Model names in the 1050 family appear most often, and the LX1050 spec sheet describes an outdoor baseball and softball scoreboard.

The record has limits, stated up front. It lists what Electro-Mech sold and shipped to an Evansville address. It does not show what was installed, what still stands, or why any scoreboard was bought.

The rules a scoreboard serves have changed too. NFHS now has each state association set a pitch-count based pitching policy, and high school basketball counts team fouls by the quarter. The sections below cover the record, the leading model's spec sheet, the Indiana picture, those rule changes and ordering lead times, so you can plan your next scoreboard from documented facts.

What does Electro-Mech's Evansville sales and shipping record count?

Electro-Mech's Evansville record holds 53 entries at 38 organizations, shipped from 1999 to 2016. Each entry is one scoreboard sold and shipped to an Evansville address, and nothing more.

Read each line of the record in four steps:

1. Take the organization name exactly as the record spells it.
2. Take the model name as printed, suffix included, such as -C or -PC.
3. Note the sport and the ship date.
4. Treat anything the line leaves out, such as venue, purpose, price or current use, as unknown.

Our data from the Evansville city page splits the 53 entries by sport. Baseball holds 29, basketball 20, soccer 2 and softball 2.

To find your own school or league, search for its name exactly as the record spells it. The diamond, not the gym, leads what shipped here, so a buyer comparing local choices will spend most of that time among outdoor baseball scoreboards.

Two lines show how an entry reads in practice. Fairlawn School appears with a 2350-PC basketball scoreboard shipped December 11, 2000. Cynthia Heights Elem School appears with a 2655 basketball scoreboard shipped June 28, 2010. Neither line says which gym received the scoreboard, and the record does not say.

The common assumption is that a list like this shows scoreboards standing today. It does not. Some orders sit in storage before they go up, and the record cannot tell those apart from ones in daily use.

Supplier directories do not fill that gap either. Thomasnet's scoreboard listings give each supplier an estimated employee count and estimated revenue, yet say nothing about what reached a given city. A review of 3 sources behind this section points one way: only a manufacturer's own shipping record names the model, sport and date for a city.

Use the record for what it is. It tells you which models Evansville organizations chose, and when they shipped. Everything else needs a conversation with the organization itself.

Which scoreboard model leads Evansville, and what does the LX1050 spec sheet say?

The 1050 family appears twice on Evansville's most common model list. The LX1050 spec sheet describes a 6 ft x 3 ft outdoor Baseball / Softball scoreboard with 15-inch digits.

The city page prints its most common model names exactly as the record spells them:

Read the suffixes with care. A suffix is not a label for the same product. Our findings on model variations show that the -L, -R and -LR suffixes add a built-in identification panel on the left, right or both, which can add several feet to the cabinet and changes weight and mounting hardware positions. A figure quoted for a base model therefore never carries over to a variant. The record does not spell out what -C or -LOGO add, so the spec figures below belong to the standard LX1050 only.

Electro-Mech's state page counts the variants of one model under its LX equivalent, so 1050, 1050-C and LX1050 roll up as one model. Counted that way, our data puts the LX1050 first in Indiana at 75 records.

The LX1050 model page calls it as small as permanently installed outdoor scoreboards come. Because its captions are short, the model page recommends it only where the viewing distance will be less than 250 feet. Standard equipment includes mounting hardware for two posts, a simplified 15-key control console, and a choice of 18 standard paint colors. ID panels can be added above, below or to either side.

Size matters here. A larger digit always costs more, and a scoreboard bought too small for its field is the mistake to avoid. Check your farthest seat against that 250-foot line before choosing the LX1050.

If your project is a gym rather than a diamond, compare options in the LED basketball scoreboard lineup instead.

Can a gym's shot clocks help during basketball practice?

Yes. The LX2170 and LX2180 model pages both describe practice use, so the shot clocks you buy for games can also run drill segments in the gym.

The LX2170 model page states that Electro-Mech controller software can send Segment Time and Segment Count to LX2170 displays for use during practice sessions. The LX2180 model page lists the Practice Segment Timer among the special clock modes the LX2180 can show. The console runs the session. The shot clocks display it.

Planning a gym order? Ask the Electro-Mech team which console pairs with the LX2170 Shot Clock Set or a pair of LX2180 shot clocks, and tell them you want practice segments as well as game play.

How does Evansville compare with Electro-Mech's record across Indiana?

Indiana leans to baseball as well, with 272 of 503 records across 173 cities and towns. Evansville follows the state pattern with one clear gap: football.

Our data from the Indiana state page ranks the state #14 of 50 by units shipped, with records running from 1999 to 2025. The sport split reads as follows.

Football is the surprise. It ranks third in Indiana, yet the Evansville sport counts list no football entry at all. The record does not say why, and this article does not guess.

The model picture holds up better. Behind the LX1050, the state's most shipped models are the LX1030 (36 records), the LX2350 (33 records), the LX1060 (27 records) and the LX2655 (27 records), out of 79 distinct models recorded in Indiana.

Three of those four model families show up in Evansville. The city, in other words, bought the state's mainstream models.

Supplier directories describe scoreboard makers by the sports they list in a catalog. A shipping record answers a sharper question: which sports buyers actually paid for. In Indiana that answer is the diamond first and the gym second.

For a buyer, the comparison has two practical uses. A baseball or basketball project in Evansville has plenty of local precedent. A football project has none in this record, so start from the high school football scoreboards page and the model spec sheets rather than from what neighbors bought.

What do the LX2170 and LX2180 spec sheets list for a gym?

Both are basketball shot clock sets sold as pairs, and each spec sheet gives its figures per cabinet. Compare the lines side by side before you choose.

LX2170 Shot Clock Set (spec sheet Rev 2.0.2025.11.03)
  Type:          Indoor, Basketball Shot Clock Set
  Dimensions:    27 in. x 29 in. (each)
  Weight:        30 lb (each)
  Digit Height:  12 in. (Shot Time), 6 in. (Period Time)
  Indicators:    N/A
  Electrical:    0.5 Amps (each)

LX2180 pair (spec sheet Rev 2.0.2017.06.08)
  Type:          Indoor, Basketball
  Dimensions:    29 in x 27 in (each)
  Weight:        30 lb (each)
  Digit Height:  12 in (Shot Time), 6 in (Period Clock)
  Indicators:    4 in (Visual Horn, End of Period)
  Electrical:    0.5 Amps (each)

The two sets match on weight and amperage per cabinet. Only the LX2180 spec sheet lists visual horn indicators. A baseball field needs neither set. High school teams follow the pitch-count policy their state association writes under NFHS rules, and youth leagues follow their own league's pitching rules.

What do current baseball and basketball rules ask a scoreboard to show?

Baseball now runs on pitch-count based pitching policies, and high school basketball counts team fouls by the quarter. Check your scoreboard and console against both before you buy.

Every entry in the Evansville record shipped before the latest basketball change took effect. A scoreboard can keep working perfectly and still show the game the old way.

Baseball: pitch counts set by rule

In 2016 the NFHS Baseball Rules Committee revised Rule 6-2-6. Each NFHS member state association now develops its own pitching restriction policy based on the number of pitches thrown in a game, with a required rest period between appearances. Pitch limits and rest days therefore differ by state, and Indiana's own state association sets the numbers that apply to Evansville high school teams.

Youth play follows a separate rulebook. Little League publishes pitch count breakdowns by league age, with days-of-rest thresholds for each division of play. Those figures apply to Little League programs, not to high school teams.

Neither rule says anything about scoreboards. Both rules govern pitchers. Ask your league or state association which pitch-count figures its scorekeepers track, then decide which of them the scoreboard should show.

Basketball: team fouls by the quarter

Since the 2023-24 season, NFHS Rule 4-8-1 awards two free throws for all common fouls once the opponent commits five fouls in a quarter, and team fouls reset at the end of each quarter. The change eliminated the one-and-one. Before it, the bonus was tied to fouls committed in a half.

The common belief is that an older gym scoreboard either works or fails. The real question is narrower. Does it show team fouls the way the current rule counts them? Ask the Electro-Mech service team with your model number in hand if you are unsure.

When should an Evansville school or park order a scoreboard?

Plan on four to six weeks from order to shipment, allow more time if you order near the start of football season, and expect less in a quiet month like January.

Electro-Mech tells customers to assume a 4 to 6 week lead time. At the start of football season, lead times have stretched to 16 weeks. In slack periods such as January, the average can fall under two weeks. Treat all three as planning guidance. The company has no mechanism for tracking lead-time statistics, so none of these figures is a measured average.

No model is stocked as a finished scoreboard, so nothing ships off the shelf. The build still starts early. Standard aluminum parts, including chassis parts, digit masks, gussets and angle brackets, are cut, punched and formed before any order arrives. The company estimates it probably holds enough materials at any moment to build well over one hundred standard scoreboard models to completion. As Chap McMichael puts it, "In this sense, building a scoreboard is a process which begins long before we receive an order."

Contrary to a common worry, a custom build carries no automatic time penalty. The calendar moves the wait more than the specification does. Some months are slow. Others are not.

Use the guidance in three steps:

1. Count back from the date you need the scoreboard and allow the full four to six weeks.
2. Add margin if that window overlaps the start of football season, when lead times have run far longer.
3. Settle custom choices such as cabinet color when you order, since they do not add time on their own.

A baseball field ordered in winter can land in the slack period the company describes. A gym or field tied to a school construction project is a different case. Orders that sat more than a year before shipping do exist, usually on school construction projects where the gym or field slipped. The records cannot show whether the customer or the company caused any given delay.

Plan around your own project date, then confirm timing with a quote from the Electro-Mech team.

What should an Evansville buyer take from this record?

Start from the sport you play and the rules you play under, then read the spec sheet of any model you weigh before you compare anything else.

List the models you are considering, whether or not they appear in the Evansville record. Then ask the Electro-Mech team for each shortlisted model's spec sheet and owner's manual. Compare digit height, cabinet size and amperage line by line. Pitch-count policies set by each state association, Little League's pitch counts by league age, and the per-quarter team foul count in high school basketball all shape what you will want a scoreboard and its console to track.

The order of work is plain. Confirm your league's rules first. Read the spec sheet of the model you are weighing next. Then ask the Electro-Mech team for a quote, with the date you need the scoreboard in hand.