FERRIDAY &8212; Put this one down as a game with three opponents: Huntington, Heidelberg Academy and Mother Nature.

Mother Nature took it in five.

The Hounds and Rebels played more than an hour in a hard rain before officials called the game after a 15-minute rain delay &8212; the second of the game &8212; with the Hounds holding a 10-5 lead in Game 2 of their South State series.

The game will be made up today at Huntington with the Hounds two innings away from a second straight appearance in the Class A state championship series. Game time will be determined today, Huntington head coach Mitch Ashmore said.

The Hounds got the big lead in the second with an eight-run inning that broke it open. The Rebels committed four errors in that inning, and the Hounds sent 14 batters to the plate and still managed to leave the bases loaded when Richard Steele grounded out to end the inning.

Steele and Ples Arthur were each hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to score the first two runs before Trey Corbett lined a shot to left that scored Phillip Washington and Steele. Heidelberg&8217;s outfield bobbled the ball on the play to allow Arthur to score and move Corbett to second for a 5-2 lead.

Huston Eliser singled to score Corbett, and an error and walk loaded the bases again. Brown&8217;s infield single scored Eliser and chased starter Justin Gibbs out of the game in favor of Chad Carmichael, but he hit Washington with a pitch to force in another run.

The Rebels pecked at Eliser on the mound for two in the second and one in the third, fourth and fifth innings. Zach Howell&8217;s sacrifice fly scored Gibbs in the third, Derek Beach&8217;s double scored Nathan Quimby in the fourth and Carmichael&8217;s sacrifice fly scored Zac Ainsworth in the fifth.

Controversy broke out on Carmichael&8217;s sacrifice fly after the Hounds got the ball into infield from Brown in left and later doubled up Mason Turner at first to end the inning.

The Hounds added two more in the fourth when Brant Bradley scored on a wild pitch and Corbett&8217;s sacrifice fly scored Washington.