Northwest baseball coach Travis Stockam actually welcomed the storm that prompted the umpires to call off his team's game against Maize on Friday afternoon.
Maize ace Garrett Gould had struck out the first nine Grizzlies who came up to bat, and the 10th had just grounded out to short when the umpires pulled the players off the field because of lightning in the area. At that point, Maize led 4-0.
With the game two outs short of being official, the umpires waited until there were reports of a funnel cloud a few miles to the west before wiping out the game and sending everybody home.
Game time had been moved up three hours to try to beat the storm. But even that didn't work.
With regional seeding meetings on Saturday morning, no attempt to resume the game will be made.
The bad weather also halted the City League track meet at Northwest. But they'll pick back up at 10 a.m. and run through to the end without a break.
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