City council hears school district’s pitch on $7.5 million baseball/softball complex

(Seguin) -- The Seguin ISD wants the community to keep swinging for the fences. The district this week officially kicked off its information campaign that tries to educate the public about a $7.5 million bond package that calls for the construction of a new baseball and softball complex at Seguin High School.

Seguin ISD Superintendent Matthew Gutierrez used Tuesday’s meeting of the Seguin City Council to make his first presentation. Dr. Gutierrez says both facilities are desperately needed. He says the current softball field at the high school is completely inadequate and needs to be replaced. There are problems with the field itself, and he says there are parking and accessibility problems for spectators.

The baseball program has its own facility problems. The baseball team currently doesn’t have its own game day field at the high school. The baseball players have to travel from the high school to an aging Smokey Joe Williams Field at Fairgrounds Park. Dr. Gutierrez says it’s not a good situation and its hurting the overall baseball program in Seguin.

“Having to take time to pack up equipment, load it on the bus, travel to Smokey Joe’s, (and then) practice, pack up equipment, load on the bus and travel back to the high school -- (with all of that), they lose out on quality practice time,” said Gutierrez. Complex, pg. 3