At 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, the laceName w:st="on">LowerlaceName> laceName w:st="on">Cape MaylaceName> laceName w:st="on">RegionallaceName> laceType w:st="on">High SchoollaceType> baseball team was preparing to host rival laceName w:st="on">MiddlelaceName> laceType w:st="on">TownshiplaceType>. By 4:15 p.m., the Tigers were boarding a school bus to play at Wildwood.

That pretty much sums up the craziness involving the scheduling of games in a spring that seems to have produced as much precipitation this season as the rainy Pacific Northwest does in an entire year.

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Anxious to put a poor showing at the Warrior Classic the previous weekend behind them, the Caper Tigers jumped to a 4-0 lead after one inning and eventually settled for an official victory of 7-3 after the umpires called the game after 5 ½ innings due to rain. Lower had scored six more runs in the top of the sixth to go up 13-3, but baseball rules stipulate that a shortened game ends after the last final full inning is played, thus wiping away all the Caper Tiger offense produce in its half of the sixth.

Jimmy Hanson hit an RBI single and George Moore belted a two-run triple to highlight Lower’s big first inning. Hanson added a two-run single in the fourth. He missed out on a six-RBI day when his two-run double in the sixth was wiped out by the rainout. Marvin Evans also lost a three-run triple in the sixth when the game was called.

Lower Cape May, which regularly starts six sophomores and a freshman, improved to 4-10 with the win. Wildwood dropped to 6-11.