Billings high schools will have funding for first season of baseball [Video]

BILLINGS – High school baseball is set to start this spring and the Billings school board approved some extracurricular accounts that will pay for the first three seasons.

The Advocates for Billings Baseball posted about improvements to the field at Central Park on Central Avenue and 8^th Street West.

The Education Foundation for the Billings Public Schools will hold the money donated for baseball teams at Senior, West, and Skyview high schools.

The advocates have raised more than 60 percent of the goal of $506,000 for the first three seasons.

“Scheels has generously donated the equipment for our teams to be able to practice,” said Kelly McCandless, the foundation’s executive director.

McCandless said uniforms will be purchased and preparation and maintenance done on the fields.

The advocates have already raised enough for the first season.

“They’ve got the plan in place,” McCandless said. “So all systems are go.”

The board’s budget committee came …