At least they’re not the only ones in this predicament.

Cathedral and the two other remaining teams in the Green Wave’s opening weekend playoff tournament may still be on hold by the time you read this today. A decision will be made at 9 a.m. to whether or not Chester Willis Field is playable to continue the tournament and try to get it completed.

The finals were originally scheduled for Monday, but the weather hasn’t cooperated that much. The final Saturday game between Union and Scott Central got rained out Saturday, and both teams were scheduled to make it up Sunday at East Central Community College.

The weather didn’t cooperate for that, either.

So Scott Central and Union will come to Natchez for a 4 p.m. contest today, and the winner will face Cathedral in the finals at 7 p.m. The Green Wave has to lose twice, and the if-necessary game will follow today after the first one if need be.

That’s if the weather cooperates.

&uot;It was supposed to rain all through the night in the morning, too,&uot; CHS head coach Craig Beesley said. &uot;I think we’ll wind up playing it on Tuesday, but we’ll let them know at 9 in the morning. But everybody is caught in the rain right now. I don’t see how we’ll play (today), but we went ahead and scheduled it. It looks like everybody in the state is going to be in the same situation.&uot;

Somebody has to be declared a winner in all these opening-round tournaments, but what further complicates the issue this week is with students taking standardized tests beginning Tuesday, Beesley said.

The second round of the playoffs will resume likely on Friday in the start of the three-game series.

&uot;Something is going to have to happen,&uot; Beesley said. &uot;We’ll find out in the morning.&uot;

TAKING A SHOT &045; A foul ball of the bat of Cathedral right fielder Charlie Lane seemed innocent enough when it traveled about five feet, but then it was tough to watch.

Union catcher Daniel Winstead made a play on it and couldn’t come up with it, but after he missed it he collided with pitcher Wes Henry, putting Henry on the ground for about three minutes.

The big left-hander, already facing an 8-1 deficit, was shaken up on the play, but he had enough fire in him on his warm-up toss to indicate he wasn’t ready to come out of the ball game.

That was the same Henry who beat Cathedral two years ago in its second-round series with the Yellow Jackets. But he has since undergone reconstructive surgery in his pitching arm and wasn’t the same on Saturday.

&uot;Wes is coming back from Tommy John surgery, and he didn’t have the pop he normally had in the past,&uot; Union head coach Joey Ward said. &uot;He’s got a breaking pitch that’s his out pitch. He’s going to come back. He’s not where he should be, but I expect him to come back and do things after Union High School. He did a good job. He’s a senior, and I’m proud of him.&uot;

It was a welcome sight for the Green Wave, who had all sorts of trouble in that loss two years ago on the road that forced a Game 3 in Natchez against pitcher Jody Blount, now a standout freshman at Southern Miss.

JUST TWO ERRORS &045; Ask any starting pitcher what they’d rather have &045; runs or solid defense &045; and 99 percent of the time he’ll tell you the latter.

Runs would be nice, but having players behind you miss ground balls or throw balls away will give a pitcher a headache the size of Liberty Park. So when the WCCA Rams had just two errors on Friday in their 11-7 win over Claiborne, it was about as welcome as a cloud on that sunny day at the park.

&uot;We have been prone to make errors,&uot; WCCA head coach Ray Olive said. &uot;This is a bad thing to say, but if we can commit six or less, we can win the game. But we have picked it up in the last two weeks. The kids are stepping it up right now.&uot;

A couple of key plays helped their cause and didn’t rattle freshman right-hander Collin Dor on the mound Friday. A ground ball of the bat of Thomas Cole resulted in a 4-6-3 double play for the Rams, and they turned another in on a grounder to second when Kyle Bailey tried to advance from first to third.

Ruston Cado threw to Cody Butler at first for the first out, and Butler went across the diamond to Jack Maxwell at third to tag out Bailey for the second out of the inning.

FRIDAY BLUES &045; It took a David New home run in the sixth for Adams Christian to put away a pesky Amite School Center squad, but it left head coach Gill Morris with one of those empty feelings after the 5-4 win.

The AC Rebels didn’t get a hit until the fourth inning and struggled at the plate some while notching their 20th win of the season. The contest was scheduled as a playoff-warmup gam.

&uot;The only thing I can say positive about it is it was our 20th win,&uot; Morris said. &uot;It’s the most frustrating thing I’ve ever seen. To not have a hit going into the fourth inning against single-A pitching is unacceptable. There was no intensity. It was like I infringed on their rights to schedule a game on Friday.&uot;