Lake City softball team opens spring sports season today - hopefully

One local high school team is indeed planning to open its spring sports season today, as scheduled.

Well, sort of.

And, of course, to do that, they had to travel some 1,000 miles from here.

The Lake City Timberwolves are in St. George, Utah, slated to begin their season at the 48-team March Warm Up Elite Tournament today and Saturday.

Lake City is in one of the eight six-team pools, and is scheduled to play all five of the other teams in its pool — all from Utah — over the two days.

Naturally, inclement weather has already pushed back today’s game times, and shortened the games to 90 minutes.

Today, the Timberwolves are slated to play Fremont at 11 a.m. PST, Box Elder at 12:45 p.m. and Bingham at 4:15.

On Saturday, Lake City is scheduled to play Cedar at 8 a.m. and Toelle at 10:15 a.m.

- With snow still on area fields, the remainder of Friday’s and Saturday’s scheduled events have already been postponed.

Timberlake’s baseball and softball teams were slated to play doubleheaders today at Orofino, and single games there on Saturday.

Coeur d’Alene was scheduled to host Sandpoint in baseball and softball today.