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Seabreeze baseball player Mason Sanders, Principal Tucker Harris, City Commissioner Susan Persis, head coach Jeff Lemon, Daytona Beach Racing and Recreational Facilities District's Jeff Hurt, baseball player Noah Katsikos, City Commissioner Travis Sargent, baseball player Micah Sanders, City Commissioner Harold Briley, Leisure Services Advisory Board member Doug Thomas, and Tara Sanders. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Seabreeze High School Principal Tucker Harris speaks during the ribbon-cutting for the new upgrades at the school's home baseball field at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Seabreeze High School Principal Tucker Harris introduces head baseball coach Jeff Lemon during the ribbon-cutting for the new upgrades at the school's home baseball field at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Seabreeze High School Principal Tucker Harris introduces head baseball coach Jeff Lemon during the ribbon-cutting for the new upgrades at the school's home baseball field at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Seabreeze High School head baseball coach Jeff Lemon speaks during the ribbon-cutting for the new upgrades at the school's home baseball field at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Seabreeze High School head baseball coach Jeff Lemon speaks during the ribbon-cutting for the new upgrades at the school's home baseball field at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
City Commissioner Susan Persis speaks during the ribbon-cutting for the new upgrades at the school's home baseball field at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Seabreeze baseball player Mason Sanders, Principal Tucker Harris, City Commissioner Susan Persis, head coach Jeff Lemon, Daytona Beach Racing and Recreational Facilities District's Jeff Hurt, baseball player Noah Katsikos, City Commissioner Travis Sargent, baseball player Micah Sanders, City Commissioner Harold Briley, Leisure Services Advisory Board member Doug Thomas, and Tara Sanders. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Seabreeze baseball player Mason Sanders, Principal Tucker Harris, City Commissioner Susan Persis, head coach Jeff Lemon, Daytona Beach Racing and Recreational Facilities District's Jeff Hurt, baseball player Noah Katsikos, City Commissioner Travis Sargent, baseball player Micah Sanders, City Commissioner Harold Briley, Leisure Services Advisory Board member Doug Thomas, and Tara Sanders. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Seabreeze baseball player Mason Sanders, Principal Tucker Harris, City Commissioner Susan Persis, head coach Jeff Lemon, Daytona Beach Racing and Recreational Facilities District's Jeff Hurt, baseball player Noah Katsikos, City Commissioner Travis Sargent, baseball player Micah Sanders, City Commissioner Harold Briley, Leisure Services Advisory Board member Doug Thomas, and Tara Sanders. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
One of the field's upgrades includes a new halo behind home plate. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
The Seabreeze High School baseball team celebrated new upgrades to its home field at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex with a ribbon-cutting on Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Joined by city officials and community members, the baseball team and Seabreeze Principal Tucker Harris cut the ribbon prior to the team's game against the Deltona Wolves. The field improvements — made possible thanks to a grant by the Daytona Beach Racing and Recreational Facilities District, and donations by the Daytona Turkey Run, the Seabreeze Baseball Booster Club, the Katsikos and Sanders families, as well as Newkirk Engineering — include a covered batting cage, a new turf halo surrounding home plate and windscreens.
Head coach Jeff Lemon thanked the donors for their support.
"Pretty much all the fundraising, everything that we do, ever since we've been here, we've always said, 'Anything that we raise is going to go right back to these guys,'" Lemon said. "... It's truly turned it into a first-class operation."
City Commissioner Susan Persis said the improved field is "absolutely fabulous."
"This is what we love," she said. "We want our kids to have a place to go out and play and enjoy themselves and play sports — whatever it is, baseball, soccer, football. It's just wonderful."
