Reported by: Meredith Wood
Videographer: Jim Reed
Web Producer: Meredith Wood
August 28, 2008 5:21pm
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Finishing touches are being hammered into place at Milan Puskar Stadium.
Mountaineer Field is groomed, colored and ready to go.
The only new addition not ready is the stadium's new jumbo scoreboard and banner on the side.
Crews are working hastily to get the screens up and running.
It's no easy task since the stadium's huge scoreboard like no other.
It's 118 feet long and 42 feet high.
Three times larger than the old screen.
Rob Davis, Tri-County Electric, "This is the first of kind. It is Panasonic. They don't have one like this no where. No where."
After workers finish the big scoreboard and the ribbon banner on this side, they'll begin constructing a ribbon banner for the other side.
However, that will be several weeks into the season.
Davis says fans shouldn't worry, they are working as hard as possible to finish up.
Rob Davis, "The big scoreboard behind me, yeah. The little ribbon board here on the side I can't guarantee that but we'll be close."
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