Beacon Athletics

Seasonal Maintenance Schedule

Winter field maintenance:

• Review plans for future field use
• Develop a field maintenance plan
• Purchase required field maintenance equipment

Spring field maintenance:

• Paint dugouts, fencing, bleachers and field signs
• Test the soil
• Aerate, top dress and fertilize the field
• Apply pre-emergent herbicides

Fall field maintenance:

• Complete major field maintenance projects (e.g. renovations)
• Test the soil
• Aerate, de-thatch, over-seed, top dress and fertilize the field
• Apply post-emergent herbicides
• (Add ground limestone every other year)

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In-Season Maintenance Schedule

Pre-practice field maintenance:

• Remove tarps
• Water skinned areas and baselines
• Install bases, safety screens and batting cage

Pre-game field maintenance:

• Remove tarps
• Mow grass
• Scarify and drag skinned areas
• Water infield
• Set the chalk lines
• Install bases, safety screens, pitcher's mat and flags
• Prepare the locker rooms, umpire rooms, press box, bullpens and dugouts
• Test scoreboard, lights, and other electrical equipment
• Dispose of trash

Post game field maintenance:

• Remove the bases, safety screens and batting cage
• Drag skinned areas and baselines
• Recondition bullpen, mound and home plate area
• Replace and tamp loose divots in turf areas
• Dispose of trash
• Install tarps