The Middlesex County Little League season opening day festivities are set for 9 a.m. this Saturday, April 8, at the complex on Philpott Road off General Puller Highway (Route 33) in Locust Hill. Longtime Little League volunteer and MCSC board member Jackie Taylor will be honored. Eight-year-old Zayden Williams will throw the ceremonial first pitch. Williams spent 65 days in Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters last year recovering from a life threatening illness. He is the grandson of Virginia and Doug Williams of Topping.
When completed in 1995, the Middlesex County Sports Complex (MCSC) at Locust Hill was the premiere youth sports facility in the region and over the years that has not changed.
The MCSC committee announced this week that more than $90,000 worth of work has been undertaken with more than half of that amount in donated labor and materials. All this to get the fields and other components of the facility ready for spring, summer and fall youth sports and community activities.
Much of the labor and materials for the work completed this spring have been donated by local businesses and individuals, said James Hatton, a MCSC board member and Little League vice president. The MCSC committee is a nonprofit group dedicated to maintaining and improving the facility.
The sports complex is located on land next door to St. Clare Walker Middle School and is public owned land. MCSC is the result of a successful public and private partnership coming together to make something very special…
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