Rain scrambles local schedule

Published 3:55 pm Friday, April 15, 2016

April showers bring May flowers — and a lot of rainouts for Warren County’s high school sports teams.

The continuing wet weather Friday washed out an entire slate of games in baseball, softball and track and field. Some games will be made up, but with the baseball and softball regular seasons coming to their conclusions next week, others were lost to the weather.

Here’s the full rundown of postponed, canceled and rescheduled games:

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• Porters Chapel Academy’s baseball doubleheader with Trinity was postponed. It will be rescheduled since it’s a District 5-AA game that must be played, but no date was immediately set.

• St. Aloysius’ baseball doubleheader with Central Hinds was rained out for a second straight day. It will be played Monday at 4:30 p.m. at Bazinsky Field. St. Al needs to win both games, and Central Hinds one of the two, to clinch the District 3-AAA championship.

• Warren Central’s baseball game at Northwest Rankin was rained out. It’s a non-division game, and WC coach Conner Douglas said he wasn’t sure if it would be rescheduled.

• Vicksburg High’s baseball game at Clinton was postponed until Wednesday at 7 p.m.

• Vicksburg’s home softball game against Riverside was canceled. It will not be rescheduled. The Missy Gators also lost a game to the weather Thursday against Terry, and it will not be made up either.

• Warren Central’s softball team was rained out for the second day in a row. Thursday’s division game against Clinton was rescheduled for Monday, with the junior varsity playing at 5 p.m. and the varsity at 6:15 at WC’s Lucy Young Field.

Friday’s game against Brookhaven will not be rescheduled.

• Vicksburg’s track and field team was scheduled to compete in the Division 4-5A meet at Canton High School, but it was also washed out. It will begin at 2 p.m. Monday.

About Ernest Bowker

Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.

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