FIELD PREPARATION

AFTER PRACTICE

Fill in holes around home plate, pitching rubber

Put away all bases

Water and drag the whole infield

Pick up trash in dugouts

make sure that the connex boxes are locked

GAME DAY FIELD PREPARATION

Home team is responsible for setting up the field

Water field to settle the dust

Set pitching rubber to correct distance and nail into place

Put out the bases 1^st base in the double bag-orange on the outside of baseline

Mark and chalk the batters boxes

Take a string line-drive nail at back point of home plate

Pull string down 1^st  base line to grass (line will be in center of 1^st base)

Pull string down 3^rd base (string goes on the outside of 3^rd base all the way to grass)

Make a circle around pitching rubber (using a rake to make the circle, then chalk)

OPTIONAL

Coaches boxes on 1^st and 3^rd

Batters circle

VISITORS RESPONSIBILITY AFTER GAME PREPARATION

If you are NOT the last game

Pick up all softball gear and trash in the dugouts as quickly as possible

Check to see if next game needs any help

If you are the last game on the field

Pick up bases and put away

Fill in holes around pitching rubber, and home plate

Water the field and drag all of the infield

Pick up any left over things out of the dugout

If you are the last one to leave the fields, make sure all connex boxes are locked and

No one is in the snack bar

Lock the gate on your way out of  Kloss Complex (for both practice and games)

PITCHING RUBBER DISTANCES

6U-8U  30'

10U  35'

12U  40'

Majors  43'

Bases  60'