Volunteers were busy Friday installing new equipment at Mickey Clark Field near Coupeville Elementary School.

Thanks to donations and volunteers, football and soccer fans will enjoy tracking their teams by watching a new scoreboard that is standing at the south end of the field.

“It was on its last legs,” said Kim Andrews, athletic coordinator at Coupeville High School, referring to the old scoreboard. “It only worked when it felt like it.”

The new $10,000 scoreboard actually won’t cost the school district any money. Windermere Real Estate in Coupeville chipped in $5,000 and two trade groups, the National Electrical Contractors’ Association and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, donated the remaining $5,000. Employees from Clifton View Homes and CK Electric Services donated time Friday afternoon to install the red scoreboard. Hanson Building Supply provided the crane needed to lift the scoreboard in place.

“We’re pretty much doing it for close to nothing,” Andrews said of the cost.

Andrews credited the efforts of Clifton View Homes employee Dave Wallace in making the new scoreboard function as advertised.

A ribbon cutting will take place at the first home football game of the 2010-2011 school year in early September to thank all of the people involved with buying and installing the scoreboard, Andrews said.