WGBA -Efforts Underway to Save UW-L Baseball Team
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Time is running out fast on the future of the UW-La Crosse baseball team.
Because of budget cuts, the team is on the chopping block and may not be around next season, or seasons down the road.
But tonight, an effort is underway to raise money for the team and keep it alive for at least one more season, if not more.
Bottom line, according to school officials, the teams needs to raise 50 thousand dollars by September 1st, 2009, just to stay afloat for next season.
Hoping to save the day, or at least the season, a cousin of one player on the team has launched: http://saveuwlbaseball.com/ To date, 15 thousand dollars has been raised. Only time will tell if the other 35 grand can be raised in time.
They've played baseball at La Crosse for decades. But the very difficult economic times may have dealt the program a final blow. Even if enough money is raised to save next season, hundreds of thousands of dollars must be raised to save following seasons.
Using a baseball metaphor, it's late in the game and the home team is down...and it looks like it may take a couple of grand slams to start a comeback. But, you never know.
