Melaque Sports Complex

Every time I've checked this place out there is nobody there so I assumed it's used very little. This day I was waiting for my car to be fixed at Poncho's next door and surprised to see all this activity. Probably because it was 6:30 and cooling off and people getting off work. Years ago I brought down a bunch of basketball nets, kept them in my car and would hand them out in various pueblos when I ran into guys playing. Hard to find a basketball hoop in Mexico with a net in it.

May be the soccer league my neighbor plays in 

An audience

Basketball without a net

Melaque Cancha de Futbol Iluminado

Pinal Villa gano el segundo lugar en la liga local de soccer

Team Pinal Villa

Jugando hasta tres en la manana

I think the only reason I heard about it is Pinal Villa won second place and my neighbor is on the team. He says there are 11 or 12 teams in the league. They all took up a collection for lighting and fencing, etc. Saturday night they finished up at 3 in the morning. Good to see the people that matter excited about that sports center. I don't know who all the teams are or if there are schedules

Another article made it sound like the Municipio of Cihuatlan was totally responsible and did not mention that all the teams chipped in to make it happen. Typical government ... but they did arrange for the installation of the lighting.

New bridge and old school

The west end bridge that crosses the canal is finally finished. Two guys are working on expansion joints and that will be it except for painting a line down the middle.

They paved out to the highway and redid the on ramp towards Melaque.  Right now they are putting up a new metal guardrail where the guys are working.

And finally the old Secondaria on the highway. The picture is from a few days ago but now all but one building is a pile of rubble.  Destined to be a new soccer and sports field.

Bridge

On Ramp

Old Secondaria