The Californian from Temecula, California • 11

Wednesday, January 24, 1990 The Califomian B-3 HARDING: Setting our priorities for the Temecula Sports Park Athlete of the Week stand in the most convenient loca course, comprise proof. Still, sever member if Little Leaguers were Continued from page Bl 1 p. tion most of the Junior and Senior Leaguers attend TVHS, just across the street from the Temecula Sports Park. Tonight's booking meeting at CSA 143 has not been set up to deal with any of these issues in depth. That's already been called convenient agenda control by one youth league representative who plans to attend but no matter.

It will not be possible for the agency or the city council to dodge these bullets for long. The time has come to hold an open city councilCSD meeting to clear the air on this matter. I hope Pat Birdsall will invite youth league and CSA 143 representatives to take part in a candid discussion before the CSD, where individual and collective concerns can be freely expressed. After that, I urge the CSD to begin formulating a set of priorities for Temecula's one and only Sports Park. From where I sit, those priorities must begin with the youth of this community.

Our youth athletes must stand at the head of this line. If they don't, we will have failed them. And that, to me, is the same as cultural suicide. playing on the diamonds regularly. The North-South fields were originally laid out as Softball fields back in the days of Kaiser, Hatcher told me, with 60-foot bases and no mounds.

Softball had always been scheduled on them in those days, Hatcher noted, and when CSA 143 took over the facility, the agency continued to observe the former practice, just as it observed the continuation of user fees. While I remember those fields being designed to accommodate both softball and youth baseball (Little League major and minor divisions use 60-foot basepaths, too), what was or might have been seems immaterial at this point. The fields are there. They have lights. With virtually no real work, they could be made ready for Junior and Senior League Little League play.

In fact, the fences (about 300 feet down the lines) are just about perfect regulation for the upper division brand of hard ball. The principal at issue here Are Temecula youth leagues entitled to share the only lighted facilities in the new city? remains most important to TVALL, but the league also wants to play on those lighted fields because they al disgruntled members in the upper echelons of our youth leagues feel compelled to push for a complete overhaul. The notion of the CSD renewing its contract the CSA 143 to continue maintaining the Temecula Sports Park after June 30 is presently about as popular with the four youth league officials I spoke to as castor oil. Maybe all of that will change and soon. But these same voices in youth league sports base a key part of their discontent on visible evidence: that the North and South diamonds are maintained in far better shape than the unlighted fields.

"If it's really costing $200,000 a year to maintain the Sport Park," one youth league board member told me this week, "then the money's been well spent, because the North-South fields are primo." From that position it's a small leap to the belief held by at least one youth league president: the only reason youth baseball has not been allowed to play on the North and South diamonds is because of the damage cleats might do to the infields and batter's boxes. "You couldn't maintain those fields in that pristine shape," I was told this week by a youth baseball board 5 of games each night led Richardson to the conclusion that the North and South lighted diamonds had been spoken for. "It's a done deal," the TVALL president told me Monday, visibly upset that the only two lighted diamonds in the city might have been already fully booked before his group had a chance to request them. Not so, claims CSA 143 recreational director Kris Hatcher. By phone yesterday, Hatcher noted that all requests would be looked into in an attempt to accommodate all parties.

She could not say whether youth baseball would be scheduled on the lighted Temecula fields. Hatcher did label the fields "multi-purpose," meaning they could serve a variety of functions and events. The 1990 User Fees notice published by CSA 143 refers to the North and South diamonds as "Softball fields," but Hatcher pointed out the fields on Rancho Vista are referred to in the same notice as "baseball fields" even though youth soccer uses them in fall and winter. I am unaware of night youth baseball ever being played on these lighted diamonds in Temecula. Others with local memories longer than mine might clarify that, but the idea that Junior and Senior League Little League Baseball, begun in 1983, and Pony League Baseball, begun in 1986, have yet to play under those lights on those two fields has engendered outrage in some quarters of our youth sports hierarchy.

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