By: Nathan Takitch | Posted: Dec. 19, 2017 at 12:59 am | Source: WSAZ
CLENDENIN, W.Va. (WSAZ) — Since floodwaters destroyed their locker room in June 2016, the Herbert Hoover baseball team has had to get dressed in the press box.
It’s why coach JR Oliver was excited that work transforming a new space into a real locker room was about to begin.
“It was gonna be more of a normal season this year, compared to last year after the flood,” Oliver said.
But now that project is up in the air all because of cooper thieves. Dozens of feet of copper wiring was stolen during the weekend. There is no power at the field.
“We were having a hard enough time finding contractors but now … you add in the fact there’s no electricity, so it makes it that much more difficult,” Oliver said. “It’s frustrating there’s way less than a hundred dollars worth of copper that they got it’ll cost us thousands.”
Copper thieves also hit the vacant Herbert Hoover High School in October.
Coach Oliver says now they will consider putting up cameras.
“We have to have some type of security system because people need to pay the price for what they’re doing.”
