Tamworth Baseball Inc's bad run of luck with the weather has continued with organisers forced to call-off what was meant to first week of it's inaugural summer competition.
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TBI president David McMurray confirmed the news on Friday with the fields considered too dangerous.
They are currently closed after more rain late on Thursday and overnight took the city's tally (at the official airport weather station) to 85mm since Monday.
There isn't a lot of rain predicted for the weekend. But even if the fields are opened before Sunday, McMurray said they still wouldn't be right to play on.
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He said it isn't so much the grass that is the concern but the dirt patches around the bases.
"All the cut out dirt sections take a while to dry out," he said.
As he quipped mother nature has been pretty cruel this year with one of the reasons they decided to put on a summer competition, the number of games they lost during the season to do wet weather.
Between wash-outs and COVID they would have probably lost half of their regular games.
"Fingers crossed we can still get a season in," McMurray said.
Starting next Sunday would give them four weeks.
Fortunately the weather predictions are more favourable.
They haven't yet finalised the teams with the storm that rolled through last Sunday afternoon deterring people from coming down and registering.
"We only had a couple last weekend," he said, adding that they have thrown it out there for more players.
While the baseball is a non-starter there are still some events going ahead on the weekend with the North and North West Showjumping Club staging a pop-up show at AELEC. Running on Saturday and Sunday, the first horses will be on course at 8am both days.
The Tamworth Triathlon Club is also holding their first triathlon for the season on Saturday with registration from 4.30pm at the Kootingal Pool.
On Sunday some of the region's best tennis players will also be hitting the courts in Tamworth for the North West seeding day. The under-8s through to under-12s will be at the Courts@East (Treloar Park) while the under-14s and under-16s will play at West Tamworth.
