AD’s, coaches and players unite to get games in

And with another week of rain on the forecast for Friday, it may have only been round one of the delays.

The softball and baseball playoffs were the hardest hit, with the first round games scheduled for Friday and the region quarterfinals on Monday. No games were played on either day. And while Saturday was sunny, the amount of water saturating the fields made it difficult to play ball.

Glenelg High baseball coach Tom Thrasher said that they went through about 20 50-pound bags of turf to restore the high school’s field in time for a Tuesday game.

‘‘A couple of dads were here when the county came this morning,” Thrasher said. ‘‘There are some wet spots in the outfield. But after all that rain, you get that.”

Liberty’s softball team initially had a first round game for Friday, which was rained out. The rescheduled games for Saturday and Monday were also washed out.

Liberty athletic director Ed DeVincent was among a number of administrators that started looking off-campus for hosting sites of Tuesday’s lacrosse action.

‘‘It’s been a little crazy with the weather, but you can’t control the weather,” DeVincent said. ‘‘You can only control other things, and we were able to get some games in Saturday.”

When he talked to girls lacrosse coach Jerry Gladfelter during Monday, the target venue was McDaniel College. But by the time Gladfelter was driving home from work, Winters Mill had locked down the second time slot available at the Westmister school, and the Liberty-Century game was looking to be back at Liberty’s field, which DeVincent described as ‘‘iffy at best.”

Calls were made, and Katie Schwarzmann, a junior starter for the Knights, knew of a field that was available and fairly close to Carroll County—Johns Hopkins University, where her sister, Lauren Schwarzmann, was a senior midfielder.

Katie called her sister, who gave her coach, Janine Tucker, a call around 9:30 p.m.

‘‘I was really happy that I was able to do something for the community,” Tucker said.

The late-night phone tree lit up.

‘‘[DeVincent] called me at about a quarter to 10 and said that there was a possibility that we could play at Hopkins,” Gladfelter said. ‘‘But we still needed refs.”

And 10 minutes later, the plans became official. The biggest game of the year for Century and Liberty ended up on one of the biggest stages available.

‘‘It’s something that the kids will never forget.” DeVincent said.