Pateros High School seniors build team dugout

PATEROS – The school district’s only athletic field has a new, spacious and sturdy team dugout thanks to the efforts of two Pateros High School seniors who built the structure to fulfill their Senior Project.

Taggart Easter and Jesse Ginter, both multi-sport athletes on the Billygoats sports teams, are putting the finishing touches on a shed roof building that has seen use recently by both varsity baseball and softball teams.  

The two seniors said they received help in the form of donated supplies for they project that they began constructing last October. Easter said Godbey Red-E-Mix in Brewster provided the concrete after he and Ginter made the forms for the floor.

Ginter’s uncle, Jim Weddle of Pateros acted as the project mentor and provided the lumber needed.
“He has a sawmill,” said Ginter. “He cut all the lumber for us.”

Easter’s father pitched in with the metal for siding and roofing.

Ginter and Easter have been working on completing the structure as time allows and still have a few finishing touches to add like tightening the span of cyclone fencing that covers the front.

“We still need to put siding on the inside and build a bench,” Easter said.

Ginter carved the overhead sign using the school shop router.

Estimates peg the value of the dugout at between $3,000 and $5,000.

Following graduation Ginter plans to head to St. Maries, Idaho, to work in the logging industry and Easter said he’s heading to electrician’s school.