One league official estimated this past week that about 350 youngsters step up to the plate in Lamesa’s Girls Fastpitch Softball Association and Cal Ripken Baseball League each summer.
Due to the coronavirus that number has been cut in half this summer.
Lamesa Girls Fastpitch President Manuel Benitez said that league will not have competition this summer.
“After postponing it and then postponing it again, as a board we agreed to go ahead and refund our registration fees,” Benitez said.
As much as Benitez and the board believes it is the right move at this time, he says it was a tough decision to ...