Greensburg shuts down season for baseball, softball, soccer programs

There won’t be any baseball, softball or soccer games played this summer in the City of Greensburg.

The Greensburg Parks and Recreation Department canceled its summer programs Tuesday because of the coronavirus. The programs, which were supposed to begin in April, originally were postponed. The decision affects hundreds of city children.

“We were hoping to have a season, but the new guidelines provided would not allow more than 25 people to gather together even if we went to green,” program director Lydia Kinkaid said. “It made it tough to hold practices or games. We were hoping to have fall football and cheerleading.”

The city pool’s opening was suspended. Kinkaid said she wasn’t sure of the status of that facility.

The walking track at Lynch Field remains open, but the restroom facility is locked and the fields are closed as well as the basketball court at Park Avenue Playground.

Jason Bush, American Legion Baseball Region 7 director, hopes even though the state legion season was canceled, some sort of baseball will be played in Westmoreland County this summer. He is working with more than 40 teams trying to organize a league for late June or July.

He said the area would have to go to green before they could consider holding games.

West Point Little League president Tom Rennie said the organization hopes to hold an in-house league July and August. The league still is planning for a field clean-up day the first weekend of June.

“We held a district meeting last week, and some of the leagues in the north (Burrell and Alle-Kiski) are hoping to have an in-house league,” Rennie said. “With no district, regional, state or Little League World Series, we’re just hoping to have some sort of baseball or softball played.”