Published: October 29, 2009 11:05 pm      

Rain, rain go away ... oh, never mind

No one, not one coach or player or sideline reporter, will be surprised if it rains Friday.

If there’s been a sub-plot to the 2009 football season, it’s been the awful weather.

Kerens, Dawson and Blooming Grove all had games postponed and will not play a full 10-game regular season.

Corsicana had a game delayed for over an hour at Waco Midway. But the Tigers were singing in the rain after upsetting the No. 3 team in the state.

In fact, the Tigers have won both their road games in the rain, also winning in a downpour at Whitehouse.

The rain that night drove KAND sideline reporter Chuck Williams into the radio booth, but it did nothing to deter the Tigers from beating the Wildcats.

So let it rain buckets in Waxahachie on Friday night (although I understand some of our radio crew will have to sit outside at Lumpkins Stadium in the cold and maybe rain).

The coaches and players are getting used to it — in games and during the week.

Wortham, for instance, has held 10 practices in its gym this season. There have been horrible field conditions all season long.

Not that Wortham coach Jerry Young is complaining.

“Honestly it’s probably worked in our favor,” Young said. “We’re playing a lot of teams that are faster than us.”

Rice coach David Currey has kept his team inside some this season, wanting to avoid injuries and the common cold.

Blooming Grove coach Scott Doring isn’t afraid that bad playing conditions helped the Lions stay close to Kerens in a 7-0 loss. But the poor weather in Week 2 also might have cost the Lions’ their second win of the season.

The best rain stories this season come out of Frost.

Polar Bears coach Clark Moore said this week that Frost’s practice field has been under water all season.

It’s even hard to practice on the game field because it’s so saturated. He said it’s the most rain he can remember for football season going back to 1991 or ‘92.

For the Wortham game the Frost coaches weren’t able to mark the field.

Frost has played on rain-saturated fields in Hubbard and Italy.

In Italy, Moore said it was a scene out of Bull Durham with it appearing someone had left the sprinklers on all night.

Dawson, which has a field that drains well, has Italy’s Willis Field to look forward to Friday night.

Moore said it best.

“It will be a good year for sports turf companies,” he said.