Posted Tuesday, August 26 --- 4:55pm

Baseball games get rained out, but the flooding of this past June washed away ball fields in the Village of Lake Delton.

In the aftermath, someone stepped up to the plate to help.

It's taking a team effort to get the infields at Kaminski Park back in shape.
"It's a great day to help the community and bring their ball fields back to life," Terry Fichter, a volunteer from the Baraboo Parks Department, says.

These bleachers have sat quiet all summer after the diamonds flooded ...
"At least 75 percent of the infield mix was completely off of the field."
... and nearby Lake Delton drained, taking several homes with it.

But the ballpark is getting an extreme makeover.

Craig Schlender of Baraboo has a sports turf consulting business. He came to check out the damage for the village.

"I took one look at it and said, this isn't something somebody should profit off of."

To give you an idea of the damage, this is an unlikely spot for a dugout.

The water actually washed it off of its base and toward the river.

"Moved it 30 yards and dumped it into a small ravine."

Schlender stepped up to the plate to help, enlisting volunteers from The Wisconsin Sports Turf Managers Association.

"If we were to have a contractor come in and do the work, we're talking 75-80-thousand dollars worth of work," he says.

It is work the village says would be difficult to do right away.

"When a community like this has a problem, a disaster, this is the last place money's going to be channeled to. But yet, it's probably one of the first places people recover from," Schlender says.

All of the materials... 400 tons of infield mix ...

"20 semi loads were trucked down," Dan Carmichael, President of The Wisconsin Sports Turf Managers Association, says.

One-thousand pounds of grass seed... and almost half a ton of fertilizer... were either donated, or sold at cost... giving a village that lost a lot... a big victory.

"Hopefully by next Spring, they can be back out here, playing," Fichter says.

A number of vendors who work with the association provided the materials and equipment. The volunteers came from across the state for the project. Among them... the groundskeeper for the Milwaukee Brewers.