Installation of sod at the Hays High School athletic fields is on hold.

USD 489 Deputy Superintendent Richard Cain told school board members during a work session this week that K-State Extension specialists recommend putting down fescue sod in the fall.

For now, a heavy seeding of rye grass will be put down this week and repeated again in early March.

Cain says as soon as baseball season is over, the rye grass will no longer be watered from the well, and the fescue sod will be started in the fall.

He says Bermuda sod for the football, soccer and track fields would be laid in June.