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Sprinturf's Rich Scott holds the layout for the new Crescenta Valley High School sports field, with all of the stripes, arcs, letters, hash marks, and logos that will be inlayed into the playing surface.

A crew from Sprinturf, LLC, out of Oklahoma City, roll away a long heavy roll of old turf, leaving a bed of gravel with shadows where the lines and numbers were at Crescenta Valley High School in La Crescenta.

The base layer of firm gravel is revealed as the old turf of the football field is peeled away for replacement.

Sprinturf's Darrin Sloan, of Illinois, and Daniel Bishop, of Oklahoma City, push a rugged sewing machine to stitch the final long lengths of turf together.

A heavy-duty sewing machine is used to lace two long lengths of turf together.

Sprinturf's Darrin Sloan, Bryan Steck, Joe Liles, Zack Russ, and Brad Robey, pull with all of their weight and strength some of the remaining turf to be installed for the field surface.

Sprinturf's Joe Liles, with a team of six others, grabs hold of some of the last long lengths of turf to stretch into place.

The centerfield logo, just unrolled, lies on the ground about to be centered on the new turf.

Sprinturf's Zack Russ pounds stakes into the 30 yard line numbers to hold them in place during the inlay process.

Sprinturf's Foreman Eric Holzbaugh, of Oklahoma City, and Rich Scott, of Oklahoma City, discuss the layout before committing to the next cut into the playing surface to inlay stripes.

Sprinturf's Eric Loucks, of Virginia, pulls a strip of bright yellow turf to create the arc at the top of the soccer penalty area.

Sprinturf's Rich Scott inlays yellow turf into the green field turf for the soccer penalty area arc.

Sprinturf's Eric Loucks and Darrin Sloan, pull the S of FALCONS into position in the football end zone that they will nail down before it is inlayed by cutting into the green field surface and gluing the letter into place.

Sprinturf's Darrin Sloan pounds a stake into an end zone letter to hold it into place for the inlay process.

Sprinturf's Rich Scott lays in a white hash mark into a cutaway of turf.

Sprinturf's Rich Scott inlays hash marks for football into the turf. The inlay process takes the most time. When the field is unrolled, many of the lines have to be inlaid, a cutaway process that provides athletes with the hash marks, numbers, center logo, end zone letters, soccer and field hockey arcs, and the sidelines.

Six-foot bags of crumb rubber, spanning more than the entire of space of solar panel cover on the parking lot, are set for spreading onto the new installed playing surface.

Alone on the brand new turf, Crescenta Valley High School's Clyde Hovsepian, 16, practices field goals with hopes he will be the starting kicker for the 2015 football team.