The 2015 Cullman County Baseball Tournament is on its last legs.

With the potential for rain every day next week, Friday’s frenzied effort to move the event up to Saturday — after several delays in March — was likely the tourney’s final hope.

Unfortunately, however, first-year coach of host Fairview Brandon Tidmore was unable to secure umpires in the extremely small window he was given after learning of the latest scheduling switch.

Now the chances of squeezing in the now single-elimination county showcase before the start of Friday’s playoffs are slim to none. Per Alabama High School Athletic Association rules, playing it after the postseason is out of the question, too.

“I hate it, and I can’t tell you the last time it ever happened, but we’re probably not going to have a county tournament this year,” Tidmore said. “We’ve got 100 percent chance or rain Monday and last I heard, it’s supposed to be 3-4 inches. Come Tuesday, we couldn’t get it all in and I don’t even know if we’ll have a playable field in the county. Then we can’t play past Tuesday because of some other things.”

“Those other things” are in reference to Hanceville and its complications as the only county team to make the postseason. Had the tourney still been scheduled for next Monday through Wednesday and the Bulldogs — the overwhelming favorite to repeat — had advanced to the championship, they’d have been silly to put a premature dent in their dreams of a deep playoff run by eating up their top pitchers’ innings chasing a county title.

The likeliness of this year’s tournament being nixed puts just another damper on an unprecedented campaign plagued by pesky weather. Rain — and even snow — caused several cancellations early in the spring and made it difficult for squads to fit in their all-important area matchups.

“It’s just been a crazy season,” Tidmore said. “I’ve never seen anything like this, as a coach or a player. I hate that it’s played out this way, especially for my seniors. We had ‘X’ amount of games scheduled, and with all that we weren’t able to make up, they got shorted a bunch of games. I just hate it for those guys and the seniors really just across the county.”

While some might rush to place the blame on the host school, Tidmore said it hasn’t been for lack of trying. He said he had his entire team shoveling snow for three straight days to try and keep the field playable in March and that he was on the phone until 11:30 p.m. Friday reaching out to umpires’ associations.

Each and every one was booked.

“We did everything we could, and Mother Nature kind of won the battle,” Tidmore said.