Several minutes before the start of Monday’s University of Hawaii baseball practice, coach Mike Trapasso and several players gathered around home plate to rake an area that absorbed an afternoon downpour.

It was a symbolic image that, rain or shine, Trapasso will be able to call this home for at least another two seasons. Earlier Monday, athletic director David Matlin announced Trapasso was awarded a one-year extension on a contract that was set to expire at the end of this season.

Trapasso reiterated his distributed statement, expressing appreciation to Matlin and hopefulness for the 2017 season, then flashing a shaka sign while saying, “Go ’Bows.”

Trapasso is entering his 16th UH season with the Feb. 17 opener against nationally ranked North Carolina State at Murakami Stadium. He has amassed 426 victories, including eight seasons of at least 30 victories.

Trapasso, a stickler for details, spent Monday plotting the final six intrasquad scrimmages of training camp, finalizing projects for Sunday’s Grand Slam dinner/auction, and reviewing his players’ requests for walk-up music.

“I wanted to make sure the understanding is the music is more for the crowd than yourself,” Trapasso said. “Sometimes (the message) doesn’t always make it to the player. I just approve or do not approve of whatever the walk-up song is. Let’s just say if the ‘clean’ version of a certain song isn’t clean enough for what I think is a family atmosphere, we just nix it and say, ‘pick something else.’”

Trapasso said Saturday’s game against the alumni is viewed as “a real practice.” He said he will try to field a 10-man lineup, and “play a bunch of different guys.”

Brendan Hornung, who will start the regular-season opener, will throw the first pitch in the alumni game. Trapasso has set a timetable in which Hornung, Jackson Rees and Dominic DeMiero will have thrown up to 90 pitches in game-like situations before making their regular-season starts. Hornung pitched in the past Sunday’s scrimmage. DiMiero, who had missed a turn because of a medical procedure, resumed throwing this past weekend.

Trapasso said he still is auditioning players at several positions. Catcher Kekai Rios and first baseman Eric Ramirez have locked up starting jobs.

“I promise on the 17th, we’ll have a guy at each position,” Trapasso said.