Mother Nature had a hard time making up her mind on Monday, sending sporadic showers throughout the region.

The Wiscasset and Lisbon High School baseball teams were able to start the scheduled Mountain Valley Conference game on time, but by the top of the fourth inning heavy showers wiped out the field.

The Greyhounds had already taken a 7-0 lead through three full innings, but the rain made each of those runs pointless as the two teams will have to meet again and start from a clean slate. However, both sides were able to take a lot out of what was played and apply it for the road ahead.

“Tyler (Halls) pitched very well for the three innings that he pitched, he threw very strong,” Greyhounds head coach Randy Ridley said. “Our defense was strong, we didn’t get a lot of balls hit to us because he was pitching so well, but when the balls were hit we did the right things. I thought our hitting was very good, we made some great contact and had some beautiful swings. That’s what we take out of this going on to the next one.”

“I was very disappointed with the way that they came into the game, especially knowing that this is a crucial stretch that we’re in now this week,” Wolverines skipper

Mike Bowles said in regard to upcoming opponents in Oak Hill and St. Dom’s. “It was just kind of flat, everything was flat, our infield and outfield were flat, batting practice was flat, it just had that flat feeling today.”

Lisbon, which was coming off a strong 2-1 victory over St. Dom’s on Friday, took that momentum right into the first inning as the lineup generated four hits through eight batters and plated three. Ryley Austin sent a bloop shot into center to lead things off and reached second when Kyle Bourget laced the first pitch he saw into left field.

Joe Philbrick pounded an 0-1 pitch to left, which scored Austin. Bourget, who reached third on Philbrick’s hit, scored during Halls’ at bat when Philbrick beat out a fielder’s choice play at second. The Greyhounds tacked on one more on Austin Fournier’s single up the middle.

Meanwhile, Halls found his groove early. He struck out the first two batters he faced on seven pitches, and despite walking Matt Craig, he quickly erased the runner on a pick-off throw to first, with Fournier able to chase down Craig for the out.

“It felt good,” Halls said about his first start. “I was throwing pretty hard, but I was wishing that we could get it to five innings, but the field was too wet. I think I’ll be able to get a couple wins on the season though.”

After Lisbon gave Halls another run to make it 4-0 in the second, the southpaw walked Darren Wood to start the inning. A balk and a stolen base put Wood at third with no one out. However, it didn’t effect Halls, as the next three hitters went down by way of the K.

Three more runs came across for the Greyhounds in the top of the third, thanks to a double into the gap in left-center field off the bat of catcher Nick Lerette that scored Fournier. Troy Galarneau and Austin hit back-to-back singles, with the latter pushing across Lerette, with Galarneau crossing the plate due to a fielding error.

Halls retired the Wolverines in order in the bottom half of the inning, but the rains and wind came and made Monday’s contest appear to be a mere practice game.

“In a way this is a blessing in disguise,” Bowles said. “Now we get to do it all over again and maybe they’ve learned something from this. This is now two games in a row that we’re flat and it’s a habit I don’t want to get into going forward. Maybe this will propel us into a stretch where we play our best baseball that I know we’re capable of.”

No official word has been mentioned on the reschedule date of Monday’s game.