Much of the area, including most of that in our coverage area as well as my neighborhood out on the League City-Friendswood border, has recovered from Hurricane Ike to the point that you have to look for damage.
Other than a few fences that have yet to be repaired, my neighborhood has gotten off pretty lucky.
One structure still visibly damaged is Ray Knoblauch Field at the Butler Complex, where I was this afternoon to cover the Chavez-Madison football game. The left half of the backstop is completely collapsed but not broken away from the other half, so it bends down behind home plate – making for an interesting-looking and extremely bent support beam.
Much of the roof of the visitor’s dugout (the first base side) is completely gone, and many letters are missing from the scoreboard.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the infield was considerably overgrown.
Hopefully the pictures I took of the screen and fence along the left-field line will load correctly and you can see it yourself.
It was really something of a sad sight, considering that just four months ago I watched two of the best baseball series I’ve ever seen when Westside played Baytown Sterling in the regional semifinals, then was edged by Bellaire in a phenomenal three-game regional finals.
On an unrelated note, since we’re nearing playoff time scouts from across the area were out in force. Atascocita was in, as were Strake Jesuit head coach Ron Counter and a few assistants – presumably scouting a later-round game since 18-5A teams will see 17-5A in the bi-district round.
Lamar was out in force; they get Madison in two weeks in the regular-season finale.
Game wrapup coming soon.
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