An unfavorable forecast in Akron Thursday caused the Ohio High School Athletic Association to delay the start of the state baseball tournament until Friday.
The scheduled start times and order of games will remain the same, but the tournament will now wrap up on Sunday, the OHSAA announced in a press release Wednesday afternoon.
Due to pitch count limitations in baseball, the OHSAA always wants to keep both semifinal games of each division on the same day so that both finalists played their semifinal games on the same day.
Three Cincinnati-area clubs are headed north this weekend with state championship aspirations. Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (21-8) will now take on Barnesville (24-7) on Friday morning at 10 a.m in the Division III final four.
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In Division II, Badin (27-5) will take on Carroll Bloom-Carroll in the state semifinals on Friday at 4 p.m. Elder will play on Saturday in the Division I state semifinals against Toledo St. John’s Jesuit at 4 p.m.
A planned send-off for Elder is now set for Friday afternoon with the team bus departing the school at 3 p.m.
All games will be played at Canal Park in Akron, the home of the Cleveland Indians’ AA affiliate Akron RubberDucks. Sunday will feature four state championship games, with Division III at 10 a.m., Division II at 1 p.m., Division IV at 4 p.m. and Division I at 7 p.m.
The upcoming forecast for Akron according to The Weather Channel is thunderstorms Thursday (which is now postponed) with a 79% rain chance a high of 85 and low of 69. Friday when games are scheduled the rain chance is scattered at 37% with a high of 83 and low of 64. Saturday is partly cloudy with a 21% chance of rain. The high is forecast to be 87 and low of 68. Sunday's championships have a 24% chance of rain under partly cloudy skies with a high of 83 and low of 63.
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