Nothing is worse than rain at a baseball field. Tuesday night, just 10 minutes before opening pitch, the bad weather rolled into the Ardrey Kell Road area. Lightening began to dance through the sky. Athletic Director Cheryl Feeney and her outstanding staff opened the school to the fans of both teams and vacated the baseball field just minutes before the scheduled start of the playoff game with North Davidson.
Over the next hour and ten minutes, rain drenched the field, even when the sun came out, it still kept raining. I wondered across the parking lot and back to the field around 8:00pm to check in with Coach Bagwell.
Like everyone else at the game, he wanted the rain to move out so they could play.
North Davidson's pitching ace was one day away from being able to take the mound, so tonight would have been ideal for the game to play as far as AKHS was concerned. The sun popped out around 8:05 giving a glimpse of hope to the game. The rain continued and Coach Bagwell put on his teaching hat and made a tough decision to postpone the game one more night in the best interest of all the student-athletes. The last thing AK needed was a midnight finish on a school night, leaving the North Davidson team a 2 hour ride home.
Coach pulled the plug at 8:11pm and went to address his squad. I am sure the kids were all disappointed as no one enjoys a rainout. But Bagwell is a smart coach, he will have the team ready to play tomorrow night and the Knights will accept the challenge of a probable new pitcher. It's not like AK doesn't have their own ace to throw. Jordan Darnell will climb back on the mound and bring his fire and passion on every pitch.
This game will still be a classic and best of all the lights at AK will be dim at midnight tonight.
Kudos to Bags for making a tough decision.
Ironically within 5 minutes of the decision, the rain came to a halt. Tonight simply was not meant to be.
I can't wait until Wednesday!
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