Chapel Hill: Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose, And Sometimes...
By Bryan Graham - June 02, 2006
Fans have been evacuated from Boshamer Stadium due to a lightning storm as sudden and harsh as the seventh-inning explosion that gave Winthrop firm control of this game. The umpires made the call and ordered the tarp onto the field just minutes before the skies opened up.
Media have been shuffled to an enclosed press box above the nearby complex that overlooks the field hockey field -- kind of a storm-watcher's dream come true, with large, wall-to-wall bay windows that provide a panoramic view of a lightning-heavy downpour that's fast approaching act-of-God proportions. Players have congregated somewhere in the field hockey building below, while fans were moved to a school building a few hundred yards from the stadium.
With one out remaining in the bottom of the eighth -- and Winthrop holding a 14-2 lead -- most of the local beat reporters in this auxiliary press room have finished their stories and will be able to file shortly after the game's conclusion (assuming that ever happens).
Not until the deluge subsides and play resumes should we have any idea about when the second game of the regional twinbill -- between North Carolina and Maine -- will start.
Posted by Bryan Graham at 04:50 PM on June 02, 2006
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