Tiger baseball at Coffeyville moved to Monday

Fort Scott High School's baseball doubleheader at Coffeyville scheduled for Thursday was postponed due to bad field conditions. It has been rescheduled for Monday. This means that the Tigers will be playing doubleheaders on consecutive days as the make-up of last Friday's home doubleheader with Labette County will be played at 4:30 Tuesday at Ty Cullor Field.

The Tigers go to Nevada this afternoon for a 4:30 p.m. single game at Lyons Stadium. The school's junior varsity teams will play about 20 minutes after the conclusion of the varsity contest.

Tiger baseball, as of Thursday, had been scheduled to play 13 games at this point of the season. They've had six of those games postponed, two of which have been made up so far. The remaining four will be played Monday and Tuesday.

Last season, Fort Scott played only nine games in the regular season and 13 overall, counting post-season contests. Kansas State High School Activities Association bylaws allow a school to schedule 20 regular-season games.

As a whole, the Southeast Kansas League had scheduled 131 baseball and 135 softball games through Thursday. In each sport, 57 games had been postponed with 20 baseball and 25 softball having been made up so far.

Last year was much worse for league schools on the diamonds as not a single baseball or softball team in the SEK managed to play its 20 allotted regular-season games. The closest any teams got to that were Columbus and Labette County's softball teams, which each managed to play 18 games, including post-season, and LCHS baseball, which played 17.

Rain plagued the southeast corner of the state so much last season that the KSHSAA eventually had to issue a wavier to a rule that stated that a team which did not manage to play 10 regular-season games would be seeded in post-season play with credit for only half of its winning percentage (i.e.: a team that was 4-4 would be seeded as if it were 4-8). Fort Scott's baseball team was one of many beneficiaries of that ruling.