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Originally, only two events involving local high school teams were scheduled for Wednesday.

As of last count, there were 11 events on the schedule.

Welcome to one of the rare nice days this spring in North Idaho.

With postseason play a couple of weeks away, teams are scrambling just to get in all of their league games.

As for nonleague games that were rained out — well, sorry, maybe next year. And even if a team has a nonleague game on the schedule for this late in the year, there’s a good chance it will be bumped so a league game (or games) can be made up.

Most local high school teams keep their schedules updated on a site called bigteams.com, formerly schedulestar.com. It’s become the go-to site to find out whether games are on or not.

Mostly not.

It’s a pretty accurate resource (even though they refer to St. Maries as the “Luckerjacks”), though every now and then one school might list the game as still being on, and the other might list it as cancelled/postponed.

ST. Maries and Timberlake have been the poster children for postponements this spring.

One peek at the baseball schedule for the Lumberjacks (or the Luckerjacks) shows 11 dates so far when games have been scheduled up to now.

St. Maries has played on just two of them. The Lumberjacks won at Kendrick on March 19, and swept Kellogg in a doubleheader at home on April 10.

At that rate — unless the ’Jacks managed to get their game in with Grangeville on Wednesday. St. Maries’ next game should be in early May. At least the pitchers will be rested.

Fortunately St. Maries plays in the three-team Central Idaho League, so the ’Jacks need just four dates to get all the league games in. Or, if Saturday looks night, St. Maries, Grangeville and Orofino can just meet somewhere and play as long as they can.

St. Maries’ softball “season” has consisted of two games — a sweep of Priest River on March 17.

For reference, today is April 19.

Lakeland’s baseball team has “only” been rained out five times, but three of them were league doubleheaders — two vs. Moscow, and one vs. Sandpoint. Ideally, the Hawks would have played six league games by now, and would wrap up league play today with a pair at home vs. Sandpoint. But Lakeland will (hopefully) squeeze in four league doubleheaders in the next week or two.

Lakeland wasn’t the only school running into rain problems when Moscow was the foe. The Bears were also rained out Tuesday at Sandpoint.

So I guess if you want it to rain ... schedule Moscow. Good for the crops, but bad for trying to get in a full schedule of games.

In Spirit Lake, where winter tends to hang around a bit longer than in other places, Timberlake’s baseball team had its first five games rained out, and has had 12 games rained out overall.

Until Wednesday — provided their game with Priest River actually got played — Timberlake’s softball team has played just three games as well. The Tigers won a pair at Clarkston on March 15, and won at Riverside two days later.

Since then, Timberlake has been rained out five times. Until Wednesday, the Tigers hadn’t played in 32 days.

Some teams have even had their rescheduled game(s) also rained out.

THE BIGGER schools have been affected to a degree, but have largely dodged the rainout dilemna. The 5A Inland Empire League baseball teams backloaded their schedules with league games, with each team’s six doubleheaders slated in an 18-day span.

But the long-range forecast for the rest of the regular season looks promising — we’re getting to the point where a forecast of partly cloudy is cause for celebration, and a forecast of sunny would turn folks downright giddy.

Around here, teams would just be happy to get a few hours of dry weather during the day — just long enough to get in a game or two.

Or three.

Mark Nelke is sports editor of The Press. He can be reached at 664-8176, Ext. 2019, or via email at mnelke@cdapress.com. Follow him on Twitter@CdAPressSports.