Coupeville Sports

Wolf senior Breeanna Messner dreams of sunny, dry days. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

One game into spring and we already have a winner for oddest reason for a postponed game.

It wasn’t the persistent wind that kept the Coupeville High School softball squad from boarding a ferry and venturing over to Port Townsend for a non-league season opener Monday.

It was rain. But not rain from today so much, as rain from the last couple of days.

CHS coaches David and Amy King were on their way to meet their team at the school when the word came down.

And that word, according to the Port Townsend Leader’s Facebook page, is that the infield in Port Townsend was UNDERWATER.

Not wet. Not damp. Not muddy. Completely underwater. Like “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”-style.

So now the Wolves will open their season on the road at ATM Wednesday. Their home opener against South Whidbey, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was just bumped to Thursday to fix a scheduling snafu for Friday Harbor.

Yes, there will be a test on that later.

The home opener, could, of course, be preempted if Noah and his ark were to make a surprise appearance out on the prairie in the next 48 hours, signalling another infield sinking beneath the sea.

The Port Townsend game should be rescheduled at some point during the season.