By Greg Parrott
The Pike County Pirates baseball field is getting a makeover that has been due for some time. The current backstop had been there more than 25 years.
Gary Bates, Doug Lynch and Horace Tuggle start to lay block on the backstop project at the high school baseball field.
Volunteers do extreme diamond makeover
Volunteers replaced the chain link fencing with a 30-inch block wall and a 34-foot net that will provide a safer facility for players and fans. The wall will stretch from dugout to dugout. A permanent power supply for the press box was also installed for the safety of the public.
“This makeover for the baseball field has been in the making for quite some time,” said coach Don Hanson. “It’s all possible due to volunteers, parents and the coaching staff. Our community is the backbone of all our improvements. With the help from Southside Steel, Supreme Plumbing, Garner Grading, Tim Blount and Doug Lynch we’ve been able to pull this off in a matter of weeks as baseball season nears.”
For more on this story, read the Jan. 26 print/e-edition of the Pike County Journal Reporter.
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“This makeover for the baseball field has been in the making for quite some time,” said coach Don Hanson. “It’s all possible due to volunteers, parents and the coaching staff. Our community is the backbone of all our improvements. With the help from Southside Steel, Supreme Plumbing, Garner Grading, Tim Blount and Doug Lynch we’ve been able to pull this off in a matter of weeks as baseball season nears.”
For more on this story, read the Jan. 26 print/e-edition of the Pike County Journal Reporter.
To subscribe, click here.
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