"If you have something specifically defined (dugout/bench), then use a different term (team area),it could mean something different."
Actually I think that "team area" is more definitive than the many words (dugout, bench, etc.) required to describe the various "areas reserved for team personnel engaged in the game" (NFHS) or "area designated for players, caches, batboys, and official representatives of the team." (ASA)
I've called HS games at a playground field with just a backstop where the team sat on wood planks on concrete bases back under the big oak tree. (Of course the visitor's "bench" was out in the sun!)
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