The Roanoke Rapids Youth Baseball Association (RRYBA) along with the City of Roanoke Rapids Parks and Recreation and several volunteers helping with ball fields upgrades.

The RRYBA is set to host it's first Cal-Ripkin Southeast Regional baseball tournament in July 2016 and along with that great task was the RRYBA want to upgrade the Ledgerwood park fields. The tournament will bring 16 teams to Halifax County and expected to bring in around $600,00.00 in revenues for our area within that week.

The Roanoke Rapids Parks and Recreation recently added Gras sod to he baselines on King field and grass sod to the complete dirt infield on the Minor league field. More interior four foot fence was erected at the two vehicle entrances and between the field and parking lot at the Minor League field.

Saturday morning Roanoke Electric employees Danny Lafferty, Cliff Neatherly, Jamie Elliott and two of their bucket trucks volunteered their service to King field the help remove the chain-link fence backstop. RRYVA board members Scott Hall, Wayne Smith and League President Todd Lockamon were on hand to help as well to remove the fence, dig up the poles, clean the area up, organize all the re-usable fencing, barricade the worksite for three and a half hours start to finish.

The bricks have been delivered and the brick masons will start laying the foundation for a brick backstop on Monday and may actually have the wall completed by Thursday. Then there will be a safety net installed from the two dugouts and from the brick backstop to approx. 20 ft in the air. This will give the field a more professional look and fans a better view on the field during the games.

If you would like to make a donation to the Roanoke Rapids Youth Baseball Association to help with this project call League President Todd Lockamon at 252-203-3478.

Saturday King field backstop removal photos by Randy Wrenn: