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Neshoba Central accepts bid on new ‘premier’ field house

Image of New Softball & Baseball Field House Design

The baseball and softball teams at Neshoba Central will suit up in a new field house next spring after the School Board accepted a $2.4 million construction bid.

The new 6,200 square foot facility will be built in close proximity to the two ball fields and will include, among other amenities, new public restrooms for fans.

The bid was awarded to Construction Services Inc. of Meridian. PryorMorrow of Columbus is the architect. The project will paid for with school funds.

The field house will include 45 lockers in each of the girls’ and boys’ dressing rooms. There is space for a weight room, coaches’ offices, uniform and equipment storage as well as restroom facilities for the players.

Neshoba County Superintendent of Education Lundy Brantley is excited about the overall project, noting that the new public restrooms were much needed.

“We’ve been needing them for years,” he said. “They will be big enough to host fans when two games are being played simultaneously.”

The project calls for a metal building that will be bricked, in part, to match other buildings in the same vicinity on campus.

New sidewalks will be added to make the facility more handicapped accessible.

“It’s hard to get wheelchairs through grass and gravel,” Brantley said. “We are making it more accessible.”

The new field house will free up dressing rooms in the football field house.

 “We will open that space up for two other sports,” Brantley said. “I think the football field house was built around 1996.”

Head baseball coach Jonathan Jones, head softball coach Zac Sanders and assistant superintendent Tommy Holland helped design the new field house.

Holland, who is also athletic director, said the new field house will open up additional locker rooms for soccer, track and cross country athletes to utilize in the football field house.

“Those players won’t have to share locker rooms during their seasons,” Holland said. “It also opens up the weight room in the football field house for scheduling.”

“The Neshoba softball program has been above average for the past several years and our baseball program is improving year-to-year,” Holland said. “Both teams compete and make runs in the playoffs every year.”

Holland said players, coaches, parents and fans will take pride in the new “premier” field house.

 “It will be one that people coming here from outside the county will really be impressed by,” he said.

Holland is also excited that the entire complex will be handicapped accessible from the parking lot to each of the fields with new sidewalks.

Coach Jones said the locker room/weight room will help his baseball program tremendously.

 “We are trying to become a premier program in 5A baseball and with facility upgrades such as this it will show our student athletes, community and other schools that we are serious about that,” he said.

“The weight room will help us get bigger, faster and stronger to help do that as well. The Neshoba baseball program is very appreciative of the Neshoba County School District investing in our program.”

Coach Sanders thanked Dr. Brantley, Holland and the School Board for making “this dream come true.”

Having a new field house is something that the softball program has looked forward to for a long time, he said.

“The proximity to the field and the addition of a weight room will be an improvement to our facilities,” Sanders said.

“We are excited about having a field house and weight room that is dedicated to the softball and baseball programs.  The field house is something that our program can take pride in and help us to continue to improve.”

Story by Debbie Burt Myers