Every sports team needs a few essential items to be good including lots of practice time and a place to play. This has become an issue for the 2014-15 AHS baseball team. After evaluating the baseball field, the team found that not only had the rain constantly been soaking the field, it wasn’t draining. At all. Without a field to practice or play games, the team is suffering. Bryce Human, 12, says that, “we try to stay off it, because it is so mushy but sometimes we have to use it.” This makes it very hard not only for the practice but the reliance on Washington’s very unreliable weather. Whenever it rains, the practice automatically goes indoors. “So far, we know that we will be playing ten away games in a row, including a jamboree that was originally scheduled here at home,” Human explains. This has been a very hard situation for all the students and coaches, but it also causes issues in transportation. Only half of the games have transportation scheduled, which costs money and is hard to plan last minute. There is another field on campus, but it is in constant use by the girl’s softball team. Several of the coaches, including Streigel, have complained to the district in hopes that they will realize the issues and put money into the program. The maintenance people have also been notified so as to be working on the irrigation anyway they can and also filling spots with sod to make it playable on. For now, it is just waiting for the answer from the district and continuing to practice as hard as they can within the circumstances. This has definitely not been the ideal way to start the season for this year’s team but hopefully with more awareness in the district, they will soon be getting the financial needs met and a new field underway.