Doubleheader Interrupted

Game 11: Immanuel Church won 12 - 9
Game 12: Rained out in the bottom of the 2nd inning

I've been playing softball in this league for 13 years now, and coaching for the last 6. In all that time, this is the first time I've ever had a game called after it's begun because of the rain. I've had the back-end of the double header called before it's begun, and there was one time where it was called in the 6th inning (which made it an official game) due to rain, but never in the first 5 innings of the second game. When you consider how fickle the weather can be, I'm actually surprised that this is the case. Guess it just goes to show you that God likes to watch Immanuel Church play ball. :o)

It was a shame the second game was called. We had a nice group of fans that had assembled, and we were playing very well as a team. The rain came quick and hard, and most of us were pretty well drenched by the time we got back to our cars. The rain stopped about 20 minutes later, but the field had taken on so much rain in the last 48 hours, that it just couldn't handle the 20 minute soaker. There was a nice little stream down the third base line, and home plate was submerged in a small pond. We walked back out onto the field and sunk about 2 inches into the infield. It was decided that we should probably not risk playing the rest of the game in the quicksand that was once the infield, and we'll look to make up yet another game later on in the season.

So, on the season so far, we are 6-5, and are in 3rd place in the A division at the moment. Still a lot of season left to see if we can get that record a little more lopsided on the 'win' side.