Vandals damage Cy-Fair Sports Association's Queenston baseball fields

Volunteers are working to mend $100,000 to $150,000 worth of harm to the Cy-Fair Sports Association's Queenston baseball game fields.

The harm was discovered early Monday morning time to the complex at 5500 Queenston. It affected five structures, including a grant stand, dugout and fourth estate box.

Vandals gained entree to a little tractor that was left at the complex over the weekend. Volunteers used the tractor to make care on the Fields in readying for the springtime season.

Dan Howard, military volunteer coordinator for the nine-field complex, said the last individual to go forth the Fields on Lord'S Day nighttime departed about 8 p.m., and the harm was discovered at about 8 a.m. Monday morning.

"In that 12-hour period, person just wiped out topographic points for children to play baseball," he said. "They didn't rupture up the playing come ups very much, but they took out benches, knocked over buildings, flipped over the grant stand, knocked a hole in the bathroom wall, wiped out a dugout and took out bleachers. They just basically tore the complex to pieces."

The harm is particularly annihilating with the start of the season slated Feb. Fifteen and a tourney planned the adjacent day.

"We're going to function about 4,500 children in baseball game this season," said Howard.

Volunteers already have got begun to unclutter away debris, fix electricity lines that were severed and fix fences.

"It have got to be safe, so we're doing everything in our powerfulness to have it ready for Feb. 15," Leslie Howard said. "We're doing the fencings and backstops and repairing any harm done to the fields, but we won't have got any fourth estate box, and the remainder of it I can't state right now."

Though it is not yet known who caused the damage, Leslie Howard said the motive is nil but meanness.

"It's populate who have got got no regard for people's place and who obviously have nil better to do," he said.