The start of the Cullman County Softball Tournament will have to wait another day.

So will Cullman baseball’s Senior Night.

Both events were forced to be rescheduled after Mother Nature’s latest offering of rain on Monday. The county softball tournament will now try to fit everything into Tuesday, while the Bearcats will wait for Friday’s first round of the playoffs to recognize their soon-to-be graduates.

The county’s coaches have elected to switch the softball tourney to single-elimination and play games on two fields to speed up the process and take advantage of expected dry stretches on Tuesday.

Matchups pitting Good Hope versus Vinemont and Cold Springs against Holly Pond will get things going at 9 a.m. Fairview and Hanceville will face off at 11 a.m., followed by semifinal bouts at noon and 1 p.m. Barring weather delays, the championship game will be at 3:30 p.m.

Cullman’s 11 baseball seniors will be honored at Bill Shelton Field during Friday’s doubleheader against Athens. The series opener is slated for 5 p.m. and the nightcap for 7:30 p.m. An if-necessary Game 3 is set for Saturday at 4 p.m.

Hanceville, also hosting in the first round, will welcome Winston County Friday at 4:30 and 7 p.m. The potential tiebreaker would be Saturday at noon.

The county track and field meet, already moved from Monday to Tuesday, will begin at 9 a.m. at Good Hope.

The first round of the county golf tournament will be Wednesday at Chesley Oaks. The second round will be Thursday at Cullman Golf Course.

Over the weekend, first-year coach for host Fairview Brandon Tidmore said there likely won’t be a county baseball tournament this year. Weather kept delaying the tourney in February and isn’t expected to cooperate again this week, the last available window with the playoffs starting Friday.

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Prep Golf

Trey Hanvey took home top individual honors during Monday’s Bert McGriff Invitational at TP Country Club following a tremendous round of 71 in wet, soggy conditions.

Hanvey’s score paced the Aggies to a fourth-place finish with teammates Seth Lancaster (86), James Arnold (87) and Hunter McKelvy (91) notching respectable rounds en route to a team total of 335.

“I’m proud of Trey and the team’s effort in the tough conditions,” coach Kurt Knight said. “They kept their focus.”

Other Purple and Gold individual scores were Hunter Whitehead (91), Austin Scott (93), Alex Walters and Noah Walker (96), and Cannon Twilly (100).

Good Hope’s Cole Pearson (77) and Holly Pond’s Dawson Foust (84) had the lowest rounds among other local participants.

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Prep Track and Field

Cullman’s Kyle Norris bolstered his ever-growing reputation as the 2-mile king at the Mountain Brook Invitational, beating 64 of the state’s best runners with a time of 9:44.

The senior, fresh off a 2-mile triumph at the Mobile Challenge of Champions the previous weekend, was also 10th of 174 racers in the 1-mile (4:34) and 23rd out of 185 contenders in the 800-meter run (2:04).

The Bearcats will host 31 schools, including Cold Springs, Good Hope, Hanceville, Holly Pond and St. Bernard, for Thursday’s Cullman Pre-Sectional. The meet will begin at 4 p.m. at Oliver Woodard Stadium.

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Fishing

Hometown brothers Matt and Jordan Lee bowed out after the third day of the Bassmaster Elite Series’ stop at Lake Guntersville, both finishing outside the top-12 qualifying spots for Sunday’s championship round.

Matt, who was as high as seventh after the first day, just missed the cut in 18th with a 15-bass bag weighing 57 pounds, 15 ounces. Jordan landed in 48th with 14 keepers for 44-12.

The Lees each netted checks for $10,000 after making Friday’s 53-man cut. The tournament opened with 113 of the world’s top anglers.

John Welborn, West Point’s varsity girls basketball coach, teamed up with Cullman’s Wesley Sams for first in Saturday’s Alabama Bass Trail tournament on Smith Lake. The local tandem claimed the $10,000 prize with a five-fish limit topping out at 18.93 pounds, only .28 more than Brent Crow and James Morgan in second place.