TOPSHAM — Topsham police are still looking for the public’s help to find the person who drove onto Mt. Ararat High School’s new baseball field, damaging the grass.
Lt. Fred Dunn said police believe the incident happened Saturday night. It appears someone drove on the field with a pickup truck and spun their tires, causing about $2,500 in damage to a 12-foot-by-15-foot area of the outfield. The new field is adjacent to the Mt. Ararat Middle School ball fields off Republic Avenue.
As of Wednesday, Dunn said police still had no suspects.
“I want to return to revisit some of the prior talks that we’ve had about fencing around the baseball field,” Geoff Godo, MSAD 75’s athletics director, told members of the Maine School Administrative District 75 Building Committee on Wednesday. “I think that the incident this past weekend is an unfortunate reminder of that need.”
He’s met with a fencing company to talk about options. Godo said a fence may be an item that is paid for through the new school project’s fundraising efforts. He’ll get proposals to the district’s business manager.
“It could have been a lot worse,” Godo told The Times Record. “The reality is someone drove out there so if they wanted to, they could have gone to the infield.”
“It’s unfortunate,” he said.
Anyone with information about the damage to the new field can contact Topsham police officer Lucas Shirland at (207) 725-4337, ext. 2305.
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