Ref to the Matoaca High School Baseball Field: I like how some of our writers think that the Chesterfield County or the school Sports Boosters give so much to the baseball program at Matoaca. Well, all that you hear is not always true. True facts: 1. The dugouts were done by a student of Matoaca who at the time was working on his Eagle Project for the Boy Scouts. He went out and got everything donated, materials and labor. 2. The building of the press box came from funds that were raised by the players and parents of the baseball program not Chesterfield County or the Boosters. 3. Replacement of the old pitchers mound and rebuilding the home plate area was done by donations of labor and material by the parents and volunteers from the community. 4. A new score board that was placed in left centerfield this year, was put there to replace the old score board that caught on fire last year. Paid for from an insurance policy, not the Boosters. 5. All of the grass seed, fertilizer, mount clay, mvp, field maintance equipment, riding lawn mower, gas for the lawn mower, L screen nets all paid for by the funds that are raised by the baseball players and hard working parents of the program. 6. Maintance on the field is done by the players; cutting of the grass is done by the coaches not Chesterfield County. 7. The baseball program at Matoaca does on the average of 6 or 8 fund raisers a year and has a very strong base of supporters.
So if you want to see who takes care of the Matoaca field just stop by any afternoon after practice and you will see it is the players not Chesterfield County or the Boosters.
For anyone that has never been to Matoaca High School, please come by sometime and see where it is located and see what the baseball program has done over the years. Then you might understand why the baseball players and parents feel the way they do about their field.
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