Olympic-Colonial Softball's Run Delayed by Storms

The Olympic-Colonial softball team came out hotter than the temperatures Monday morning, but it’ll be a few days before the team can determine its own fate in the annual Carpenter Cup tournament in Philadelphia.

The all-star squad, which includes Cherry Hill East outfielder Casey Clark—who took center field for the opener—and West players Alicia DeFlaviis and Cierra Machinski, rolled through the first round with an 11-0 drubbing of Suburban One League-Bicentennial, but Mother Nature intervened in the second round.

With Olympic-Colonial trailing Mercer County, 3-0, in the top of the fifth inning, thunderstorms rolled through FDR Park just after 2 p.m., wiping both that game and a set of third-round games later in the afternoon.

The game will pick up Wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m., with the winner moving on to the winners’ bracket third round at 11:45 a.m. A loss would send Olympic-Colonial into back-to-back games.