Artificial Turf

Artificial turf installation at Martinsburg High School will not be completed in time for the Bulldogs to play their season-opening varsity football game at home Friday against Morgantown as originally scheduled. The Bulldogs were set to play at Cobourn Field, but the game instead will be played at Pony Lewis Field in Morgantown at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Martinsburg played a scheduled home girls soccer match at Musselman on Saturday and today's boys soccer opener against St. Maria Goretti has been rescheduled for Sept.

Spring Mills High School's planned football stadium will seat more than 5,000 people, qualifying it to host state playoff games, according to Berkeley County school officials. With the county's fourth high school set to open in August 2013, the Berkeley County Board of Education Thursday night awarded two contracts totaling $2,942,000 to construct the football field and track around it and to install the stadium's bleachers. Dustin Construction of Ijamsville, Md., was awarded a $1,784,000 general trades contract and GT Grandstands of Plant City, Fla., was awarded a $1,158,000 contract for the bleachers, according to the school district.

The Waynesboro Area School Board took a step Tuesday toward adopting a naming rights policy for school facilities. The policy affects naming of facilities such as buildings and athletic fields in honor of people. It addresses financial contributions that lead to naming rights. The Waynesboro Area Business, Education and Community, or WABEC, Foundation has requested the naming policy be in place as it explores launching a capital campaign focused on athletic facilities, particularly the high school track and football field surface.

HAGERSTOWN North Hagerstown High School's stadium will not be complete by the Oct. 6 Homecoming football game, the originial date a private committee had hoped to meet, according to school principal Valerie Novak. Officials would have liked the stadium to be complete even earlier, by a Sept. 27 football game, but rain slowed the construction progress, said John Williamson, a member of the committee raising money for the stadium. The Hubs should be able to play this season's last home game on the new field Nov. 3. Recent rainfall delayed laying down artificial turf and setting up bleachers, Novak said.

bonnieb@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Making the new stadium at Chambersburg Area Senior High School handicapped-accessible was one of the topics of discussion at the Wednesday evening meeting of the Chambersburg School Board's buildings and grounds committee. Buildings and Grounds Director Richard Bender asked the committee for permission to make two change orders, one for adding $51,300 to the cost for making ADA upgrades to the west-side seating, and one for deducting $12,000 for not putting stones on the hillside where the bleachers were removed.

GIRLS SOCCER St. Maria Goretti 2, Berkeley Springs 2 Erica DiMercurio scored two goals for St. Maria Goretti as the Gaels opened their season with a tie against Berkeley Springs. Corrie Riffle scored a pair of unassisted goals for the Indians (1-0-2), the second coming in the 75th minute to tie the match at 2-2. Justin Beachley and Sandra Maina each had an assist and Andrea Buckner had four saves for the Gaels, who outshot the Indians, 16-8. University 3, Martinsburg 2 INWOOD, W.Va.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Cobourn Field at Martinsburg High School will be closed to the public beginning Monday to allow for site work and installation of artificial turf, according to a press release from Jaimee Borger, director of communications for Berkeley County Schools. The track and field are expected to remain off-limits until Aug. 24, according to the release. In a related matter, the Martinsburg City Council in a special meeting Thursday voted to allocate $150,000 toward the turf project over two years.

HAGERSTOWN - North Hagerstown High School's stadium will not be complete by the Oct. 6 Homecoming football game, the originial date a private committee had hoped to meet, according to school principal Valerie Novak. Officials would have liked the stadium to be complete even earlier, by a Sept. 27 football game, but rain slowed the construction progress, said John Williamson, a member of the committee raising money for the stadium. The Hubs should be able to play this season's last home game on the new field Nov. 3. Recent rainfall delayed laying down artificial turf and setting up bleachers, Novak said.

Ben Love scored six goals, Tyler Hutson added four and Winters Mill ended North Hagerstown's boys lacrosse season with a 17-0 shutout in the Maryland Class 3A/2A West first round Friday at Mike Callas Stadium. Winters Mill (8-6) was the home team, but the game was played at North (2-10) because of poor field conditions at Winters Mill. The Falcons wasted little time making the Hubs' artificial-turf field feel like home. Love scored the game's first four goals and five of the six goals Winters Mill scored in the first quarter.

A feasibility study will start soon to determine if an educational foundation can raise enough money to replace the track and football field at Waynesboro Area Senior High School. Waynesboro Area Business, Education and Community (WABEC) Foundation will be hiring a consultant to estimate how much fundraising can be accomplished for the project. Officials said the capital campaign will focus on athletic facilities but could also address arts and academics if contributions allow. WABEC representatives addressed the Waynesboro Area School Board on Tuesday about starting the initiative.