Apparently, Mother Nature is not ready for high school baseball.

Rains last Friday made the field at Allen High School unplayable even the following day for the game between the Canaries and Salisbury. The Allen team and coaches worked hard to get the field in playing condition and the game was even pushed back but in the end, it still was not in condition that was considered safe and the nonleague game had to be postponed.

The same thing happened Monday when Salisbury’s game at Wilson was also rained out. The game against Allen (1-1 EPC, 1-2 overall) has not yet had a make-up date scheduled, but the Warriors and Falcons (2-0 Colonial League; 3-1 overall) will play Saturday at Wilson.

The rainouts left just one game, a win against Northern Lehigh, on the schedule for the past week.

Against the Bulldogs (1-2 Colonial, 1-3 overall), Salisbury got two hits each from Jake Bucchin and Caleb Gonzalez in a 13-3 win over Northern Lehigh.

Two second-inning errors by Salisbury led to two early runs for Northern Lehigh but the Falcons were not going to stay down for long. In the bottom of the second, Salisbury had runners on second and third with one out after a leadoff walk to Austin Spisszak was followed by a double from Owen Fogel.

Jake Zellin drove in one run with a sacrifice fly and Gonzalez tied the game with a base hit through the middle. After a stolen base by Gonzalez and a walk by Nate Nunez, an Allen error allowed two runs to score as the Falcons took a 4-2 lead.

The Bulldogs came back to get a run in the third but with Salisbury up 5-3 in the bottom of the fourth, Salisbury exploded for six runs. Michael Stauffer stole home to get the first run of the fourth, a double by Tom Lovelidge and a sacrifice fly from Fogel pushed the score to 8-3. The Falcons added three more in the inning on an RBI single by Zellin and a two-run single by Nunez, making it 11-3.

Two errors and a balk ended the game when Salisbury scored twice in the bottom of the fifth to take a 13-3 lead, which finished the game on the 10-run rule.

The bottom four hitters in the lineup – Lovelidge, Fogel, Zellin, and Gonzalez – collected four of Salisbury’s hits and finished the day a combined 5-for-7 with five RBI.

With the blessing of Mother Nature, the Falcons will play three games in four days with Southern Lehigh (2-1, 2-2) coming to visit Salisbury Wednesday before trips to Palmerton (1-1, 2-3) and Wilson (0-3, 0-3) on Friday and Saturday.