The abundant rain that Chatham has dealt with over the last few days, coupled with a storm yesterday, made the field at Veteran’s Park unplayable and forced the postponement of the contest.

     The Commodores will now kick off their 2006 season with a home game tonight at the Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field. They will square off against division rival Bourne, which also had its scheduled game yesterday called off due to heavy rain at the Braves’ new ballpark late in the afternoon.

     Chatham A’s General Manager Charlie Thoms said that the field at Veteran’s Park was simply not holding the water well and that the reason that the game had to be put off (it has been tentatively rescheduled for June 20) was that the players’ safety would have been in jeopardy. “There are three spots where the water has really welled up, and we wouldn’t have been able to have it ready to go,” Thoms relayed yesterday afternoon from the ballpark after discovering that the grounds crews’ efforts to make it right in time for the first pitch would not pay off. “We figured this was the right thing to do, rather than push it and risk someone getting hurt.”

     The Commodores will send Sam Detwiler, of Missouri State University, to the hill against the Bourne this evening, with the first pitch slated for 7. Detwiler was one of the aces of the Bears’ staff this year. He posted a 7-4 record with an earned run average of just 2.81, which was second on the team. Detwiler led the team in innings pitched, hurling 93 frames. In those innings, he allowed just 73 base hits, and opponents batted just .214 against him.