Weather Again Playing Havoc this Year

Kerry Rodd-NSO

Local high school athletic teams are still struggling to find places to play baseball, softball, run track or even hit a golf ball.  A top 10 of all time snowy winter has contributed to the slow start of spring sports much like last year when the area was inundated with four storms in April.

  Many of the local teams have taken extreme measures such as trying to snowblow off running tracks and fields, but once the top layer of snow has been taken off there is still frost to contend with.  A number of local schools were able to get snow off playing fields only to have a round of two snowstorms blow through the area a week and a half ago thus delaying by at least a week the opening of play.

  Most local softball teams were scheduled to open play either Thursday or Friday of this week, with a full slate of games being played the week of April 14th prior to Good Friday, but there is a chance at least some those games will not be played.

  The warm local weather helped to significantly shrink the polar ice cap that seemed to shroud most of the Carlton County and South St. Louis County area this past week as temperatures finally slipped above the freezing mark and into the upper 40’s and lower 50’s.

Kerry Rodd can be reached at kerry@northlandsportsonline.com