Today was a short day, but still a great one. Friday thru Sunday the first round of the College World Series playoffs took place at Boshamer Stadium at UNC. The Tar Heels won the regional Sunday night, which means that this upcoming weekend, UNC will be hosting the next round of the playoffs – the super regionals. Since the Heels won last night, the coach gave them the day off of practice. This meant this it was our, the grounds crew, time to rebuild the field. Four D1 teams tore up the field during 6 games and a heavy rainstorm on Friday. Today, we were tasked with tearing apart the mound, the home plate, and both bullpens. This consisted of removing all of the dirt on top, scraping the hardened clay, applying new clay and then new soft dirt as a top layer. We started around 8:30 and we finished around noon. Since the team didn’t have practice, there was nothing else for us to maintain or work on. So, we headed home! It’s a great day to be a Tar Heel!
