A night after battling a rainy and muddy field the Lorain County Ironmen arrived in Hannibal on a hot and humid evening. The game headed to the top of the seventh inning when Mother Nature showed up.

The skies opened and the rain started and did not stop. After an hour rain delay that saw the dugouts flood with more than four feet of water the game was called after six complete innings and the Ironmen fell to the Cavemen 7-2.

Complete stats were not immediately available due to the official score-keeping equipment being washed away in the rain.

The night started promising for Lorain. After falling behind 2-0 in the bottom of the first inning they answered right back. Billy Urban started the second inning with a single. JT Feldkamp followed with another single.

Will Hodges singled to leftfield with one out to score Urban. The leftfielder miss played the ball allowing Feldkamp to move to third. Evan Melendez’s sac fly scored Feldkamp to tie the score at 2.

The bottom fell out for the Ironmen in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cavemen scored four runs to open up the score.

Aaron Hilt started for Lorain. He went five 1/3 innings. He walked four, gave up 11 hits and allowed seven runs.