COC NOTEBOOK: COC PLAYING SURFACE MUCH WORSE FOR WEAR.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer Like any college supporter, Jim Schrage attends the football games. But when he attends, he's looking at more than just the teams and the action. Schrage is College of the Canyons' Director, Facilities Planning and Services, meaning he looks at the field. While the Cougars continue to rack up victories, the playing surface isn't pretty. ``You see the dust flying and you say, `Welcome to COC See chip on chip. ,' '' Schrage said. Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. Stadium is one well-worn field. High school football teams have used it for years, but now Canyons has two fall sports sharing time. Women's soccer doesn't use it too much because it has the upper field. But Canyons' football team practices on it every day. No wonder the field looks like November early. Schrage said the football team is in the stadium all the time is because the upper field, the future practice home, isn't done yet. At a cost of about $125,000, the school revamped the upper field, Schrage said. The grass hasn't grown strong enough to take the punishment football players would give, so the field sits unused, except for the portion allotted al·lot tr.v. al·lot·ted, al·lot·ting, al·lots 1. To parcel out; distribute or apportion: allotting land to homesteaders; allot blame. 2. to women's soccer. Meanwhile, the stadium field gets worse. For Canyons' first two home football games against Compton and East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. , almost no grass between the yard markers in the center of the field could be seen. Officials from the high schools, especially Hart, politely complained the conditions were terrible. So Schrage and athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Len Mohney authorized minor renovations to be done after the East L.A. game. Groundskeepers dug up the soil and planted some seed and mulch mulch, any material, usually organic, that is spread on the ground to protect the soil and the roots of plants from the effects of soil crusting, erosion, or freezing; it is also used to retard the growth of weeds. . Meanwhile, Mohney did his best to keep everyone off the field. The result was improved conditions for Saturday's game against Allan Hancock. However, the field won't get better this season. The school's plan, Schrage said, is to let it go and replant re·plant v. To reattach an organ, limb, or other body part surgically to the original site. n. An organ, limb, or body part that has been replanted. in the offseason. After the last high school game is played in December, the field will be stripped, graded and replanted with hybrid bermuda grass Bermuda grass, perennial pasture, lawn, and hay grass (Cynodon dactylon) of the family Gramineae (grass family), native to Africa and Asia and now common in warm regions of both hemispheres. It is the standard pasture grass in the S United States. . The project will be funded equally by the college and the William S. Hart Union High School District. Schrage doesn't have an exact dollar amount but expects the project will cost less than the upper field's renovation. ``We want to get it done before the rainy season,'' Schrage said. By the numbers: Canyons' football team has scored 42 points in a game four times this season. |
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