April showers brings May make-ups.
Wet weather the past week has pushed sporting events in the area into a tight schedule for May.
Iola High’s baseball and softball teams have had games rescheduled from Friday and Monday. The baseball doubleheader and single softball game between Iola and Neodesha was postponed last Friday and will be played Thursday in Iola.
The Fillies will travel to Columbus on May 10 for the Southeast Kansas League doubleheader which was not played Monday because of wet field conditions. The SEK baseball doubleheader between the Mustangs and Titans has been canceled.
Iola’s baseball team already has a rescheduled SEK doubleheader at Parsons this Friday.
The Iola High golfers were to have played in a junior varsity tournament at Independence Monday but it was canceled.
Iola Middle School’s track teams were in Parsons Monday for their final meet of the season. It was cut short because of severe weather conditions and the results of events completed will be in later this week.
Rain over the weekend pushed back the playoff series between Allen Community College’s Red Devil softball team and Independence Community College. Sunday’s deciding game of a best 2-out-3 series was moved to Monday, then again to today.
Allen and Independence split two games Saturday. The rest of the Region VI, Division II, District E field is waiting on this series. The District E tournament is set to begin Saturday at Topeka’s Hummer Park.
The winner of the Allen-Independence series takes on Johnson County at noon Saturday in the double elimination event. Highland plays Brown Mackie at noon also. The winner of the tournament, which concludes Sunday, advances to the NJCAA Division II National Softball Tournament, May 17-19, in Clinton, Miss.
After rain poured down in the southeast Kansas area again Monday night and this morning, activities scheduled for today are questionable. The Allen-Independence softball game has been set for 6 o’clock tonight with the hopes of the field being dried out enough to play.
