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Amarillo accessory alliance baseball admirers were befuddled a ambit brawl Monday morning.
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There will be no accessory alliance baseball in Amarillo abutting summer.
Maybe in Canyon in two years, but not in Amarillo.
The much-talked about Potter County Memorial Stadium, home of absolute accessory alliance baseball for 21 of the aftermost 22 years, will instead be busy to a bounded clandestine aerial academy baseball aggregation starting in January.
After 30 account of discussion, Potter County commissioners voted 4-1 to acquiesce Southern Absolute baseball’s Gary D. Elliston to abide the charter holder until September 2017, and they accustomed a appoint arrangement Elliston has fabricated with San Jacinto Christian Academy.
Commissioners additionally said Elliston charge accomplish $5,217.05 of improvements to the amphitheater afore Dec. 31 to complete the annual $50,000 charter acceding for amphitheater up-keep.
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“I will pay the bristles thousand out of my own abridged if I accept to,” Elliston said. “It will get done. I’m blessed with what took abode today.”
The commissioners’ accommodation Monday agency the Pecos Alliance — a 12-team absolute alliance baseball alignment — is out of altercation to charter Memorial Amphitheater from May to August, as was their aboriginal intent, said Potter County Judge Nancy Tanner.
“The Pecos Alliance is out,” Tanner said. “That was allotment of what Mr Elliston capital was a appoint (with the Pecos League). But the motion was fabricated by abettor (Mecry) Murguia to omit the Pecos League, specifically, and let Mr. Ellliston accumulate the added year he has the arrangement and appoint to San Jacinto Christian Academy as able-bodied as the Great Southwest Collegiate League.
The GSCL is a alliance comprised of college-age players that fabricated their admission aftermost summer with four teams arena in Memorial Stadium.
Pecos Alliance abettor Andrew Dunn, who abounding a Potter County abettor affair aback in November, said Monday in a buzz chat he was aghast in not accepting the adventitious to comedy at Memorial Amphitheater in 2016 . Dunn said, “the approaching of baseball in the Pecos Alliance is in Canyon.”
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Based in the Houston-area, Dunn said he has four teams in California set to comedy for 2016, giving him 12 teams for the Pecos League. He said negotiations are underway with West Texas A&M to charter their artificial-turf field, and he hopes to accept a aggregation in Canyon “for the 2018 season.”
San Jacinto Christian Academy was represented at the commissioners’ affair by a scattering of bodies including academy lath affiliate Tom Bowles and arch baseball drillmaster Mike Fuller. San Jacinto is a clandestine academy in Amarillo with its able-bodied programs accommodating in the Texas Association of Clandestine and Parochial Schools (TAPPS). The San Jacinto baseball division starts with convenance in mid-January and finishes in aboriginal May.
Bowles said San Jacinto absent its baseball acreage of about 16 years because Owens Corning, the acreage owner, has absitively to do article abroad with the property. “We are actual animated the action is over, and actual beholden of Mr. Elliston and his efforts to accomplish abiding our San Jacinto Christian Academy has a abode to comedy baseball,” Bowles said.
San Jacinto has agreed in the appoint to advance $25,000 adjoin acreage and amphitheater improvements, Bowles said. The added $25,000 of the appropriate $50,000 improvements will be handled by Elliston. “We are activity to go advanced and get into the acreage and alpha axis some clay and get that infield in shape,” Bowles said. “Then we will alpha animadversion bottomward the grass and apparently body a new pitcher’s mound, apple-pie out the dugouts and accomplish it attending nice.
“I acquaint you what,” Bowles said, “our aerial academy kids don’t apperceive how aflame they are activity to be to get on that big field.”
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The chat on the Memorial Amphitheater charter never become acrimonious and lasted aloof beneath 40 minutes. Those complex in the altercation included the commissioners, Elliston, Bowles, and a few Amarillo baseball fans. Elliston said he has absent “a lot of money” anniversary year of the four he’s spent active absolute baseball in Amarillo, and “lost a little” active the GSCL.
He was asked by abettor Murguia that back he says he’s accident money, why abide captivation the Memorial Amphitheater lease? Elliston said it had to do with integrity, and actuality a man of his word, to complete the charter he had signed.
Not anybody present agreed with Elliston actuality accustomed to absorb the final year of the lease. The abandoned “no” vote from the commissioners was from Leon Church, who was promised by Elliston that the eye-sore debris abaft the Memorial Amphitheater fence will be bankrupt up soon.
Mike Head, administrator of the Potter County ability aliment department, said he meant no boldness to Elliston but he apprenticed the commissioners to booty the charter away.
Head said it would booty $14 actor to accompany Memorial Amphitheater “back to what I alarm a acceptable stadium. I accept to say this. This $5,000 and $10,000 stuff, all they are accomplishing is nickling and diming stuff. You can go out there and put bottomward $5,000 to annihilate chow worms and you won’t see the impact.
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“This is aloof my opinion, and annihilation adjoin you Mr. Elliston, I ambition you (commissioners) would abolish the contract. Get out from beneath it and let’s alpha all over.”
Tanner said she is admiring to see the Memorial Amphitheater charter acclimatized for now. “I am so animated this affair is over,” Tanner said. “I was absolutely accommodating to absolution Mr. Elliston out of his arrangement and to acquiesce us to go with a absolute charter to San Jacinto. But it’s accept this way. He maintains the appearance akin and what all, and that’s what he capital to do. That’s fine. I don’t accept a botheration with that. As of September 2017, he will be out.”
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