'Brian's Bench' at West Hall gets update to landscape

Memorial honors former West Hall baseball star Brian Ernst

Members of the West Hall High School Skills U.S.A. construction class lay down a brick patio around Brian’s Bench overlooking the outfield of the school’s baseball field. The bench honors Brian Ernst, a West hall baseball player who died of cancer in March 2010. - photo by Tom Reed | The Times

0325ernst1 — Members of the West Hall High School Skills U.S.A. construction class lay down a brick patio around Brian’s Bench overlooking the outfield of the school’s baseball field. The bench honors Brian Ernst, a West hall baseball player who died of cancer in March 2010. - photo by Tom Reed | The Times

A bench that sits beyond the right field fence at the West Hall baseball field honoring the late Brian Ernst, a former Spartans pitcher who died of cancer in 2010, was given a face lift on Saturday. Workers, including Brian’s father, Steve Ernst, began to install a stone walkway around the bench, as well as planted shrubs and two weeping cherry trees. The memorial is in the location Donna Ernst, Brian’s mother, would sit during his baseball games.

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