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%\ '$9,' +$=/(',1( 6WDII :ULWHU As a sophomore soccer player in southern Indiana in the 1980s, my teammates and I started our season with an afternoon of shoving smoke bombs down the many gopher holes that dotted our field. The sport is hard enough on legs and ankles without the threat of a break or sprain from stepping into a hole, and it may have been nice to have had the support of an award-winning grounds crew like the one currently tending Caston School Corporation’s fields of play. For the fourth consecutive year, Josh Lowe, Caston School Corporation transportation and grounds director, and assistant Chuck Warpenburg earned Pioneer Athletic’s Fields of Excellence award for their many hours of hard work maintaining the sports fields along with their oth-
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