Rain wreaking havoc on 7-AAA baseball tourney

For the second straight day, Mother Nature kept the Pioneers off the baseball diamond.

Friday?s scheduled first-round matchup against Blackman in the District 7-AAA tournament was rained out, and the teams returned to the field on Saturday, playing four innings before the weather once again brought the action to a halt.

Play was suspended for nearly two hours before coaches decided to suspend the game until today, when it will resume at 3 p.m.

The Pioneers and Blaze will pick up where they left off, entering the fifth inning with Blackman on top 1-0 thanks to an RBI grounder from Dylan Myers in Saturday?s third inning. Myers drove home Justin Bowers, who led off the top of the third with a walk, one of five given up in the abbreviated contest by Pioneer starter Derrin Rogers.

The second round of the tourney was pushed back to Monday evening, with the Pioneers taking on either Oakland or White County.