Bernie Giannotta (l.), project manager from Haselden / Barton Malow, and Scott Nelson from Encore Electric, Inc. receive a poster-sized thank you card from the women's softball team for the new dugouts and announcer's booth. Photo by Jason Andrade.

The Metro State women’s softball team now has a solid home-field foundation and newfound electricity.

Thanks to the generosity of Haselden / Barton Malow and Encore Electric, Inc., two of the companies working on the Auraria Science Building expansion project, the softball fields at Auraria are now equipped with two dugouts and an announcer’s booth. Haselden / Barton Malow donated the materials and construction of the structures and Encore Electric, Inc. ran the electricity lines.