history when a student showed him a photo of the fire posted on social media. Head coach William Poulakos said he was teaching U.S. “It kind of makes me mad to imagine that our home dugout got burned,” said Michael, the team’s second baseman and pitcher. “This was probably the most egregious act I’ve ever seen,” Moore said. In the earlier incident, a group of students broke into the equipment shed and damaged some of the items inside, including puncturing the school’s utility vehicle tires. It’s the second incident at Parkdale involving its outdoor athletic equipment this school year, Moore added. The dugout - Parkdale’s home bench - also contained all the team’s equipment, including balls, bats, a hitting net, helmets, baseball bags, a nylon batting cage and other baseball gear, Moore said. Moore said the truck needed to be towed out before fire crews left the school, leaving behind ruts “about a foot deep” in the left side of the infield. The field was also damaged in the incident after muddy conditions caused the fire truck to get stuck. A spokesperson for Prince George’s fire said the damage caused by the fire is estimated at $10,000.Ī fire department spokesperson said the investigation is still ongoing, and fire investigators who were at the scene are going through all possibilities for the cause of the blaze. Prince George’s County fire crews drove to the third base line to fight the fire through an access road behind right field. By the time he arrived at the field, the dugout was “fully engulfed in flames.” on March 8 at the baseball field, at the bottom of a hill next to the high school.Īthletic Director Brian Moore said he was first alerted by the school’s tennis coach. “We got to practice in the gym, but we got to do what we got to do.”Īs Prince George’s County investigators figure out what caused the fire, the Parkdale baseball team is receiving support from the region’s baseball community to help them spring forward and perhaps play on their home field at least once this season. “We’re pretty mad,” Michael said when asked about the team’s predicament.
With days remaining before the start of the high school baseball season, Michael and his Panther teammates are stuck inside the gym for preseason workouts after a fire burned their home dugout to the ground leaving the squad with a damaged field and no equipment. However, instead of wearing his cleats onto the baseball field at Parkdale, the senior kept his tennis shoes on and started to jog on the hardwood of the basketball court. Print.Īs the sun beamed down on Riverdale, Maryland, after school one day earlier this month, Parkdale High School senior Jabari Michael put on his baseball cap and began to stretch. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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