Dads are the often the first person a little boy starts playing catch with, so when the baseball field needs a bit of attention before the season starts, dad gets the call once again.  

As a way to get the field ready for the season, baseball hosted a father son work day on saturday with fathers and sons doing maintenance and prep work to get the field in the best shape possible.

“It was a good way to get fathers and sons to come together for two, three, four hours and be assigned a project and then they had to work together,” head coach Scott McGarrh said. “It’s basically forcing the kids to spend three or four quality hours with their dad or their mom.”

Players find the work rewarding and a great way to build relationships with teammates.

“We’re out here for Father Son Work Day,” junior Travis Waggoner said.” We do it every year, just get a bunch of maintenance done on the field, any work that needs to be completed before the season starts. Most people, they’re sleeping in, eating their donuts, just, y’know, relaxing, and we’re out here, early in the morning, just truckin’, so we’re getting some good–we’re getting stuff done.”

Although work day isn’t nearly the same as practice, it’s necessary for the season.

“My favorite part is us coming together as a team and kind of working together, getting all the stuff ready for the season,” junior Alex Garza said. “We all do a lot of stuff that we don’t usually get to do, and it’s more fun than it seems, honestly.”

In addition to saving time for the coaching staff, the work day builds bonds between players and their fathers.

“The dads and the sons get to just sit there and talk and fellowship,” head coach Scott McGarrh said. “They’ve got their arms wrapped around each other, and then obviously it helps us out tremendously because of the jobs that we do today, would take the coaching staff three, four, five weeks to get done, where we get done in three to four hours. So, it’s a good deal.”