Weather only caused more frustration for the Skaneateles softball team, and not just through another rash of postponements. In last Monday’s game against OHSL Liberty division favorite Cazenovia, Skaneateles had a rally going before weather cut the game short – and left the other Lakers on top by a score of 10-4. To be sure, Skaneateles struggled early, Alyssa Stevens pounded for 11 hits (including Korena Fenton’s game-opening home run) as Cazenovia raced to a 10-1 lead by the fourth inning. But Skaneateles began to stir in the fifth, earning three runs. Unfortunately, as this went on the rain got worse, and umpires decided, after the fifth inning (which makes a game official), that it was too damp to continue. Emily Call, Julianna Augustine, Erica Nye and Madison Singler each had one RBI, with Chelsea Hamilton, Colleen Cargile and Sarah Tomlinson scoring runs. Three Cazenovia players – Fenton, Taylor Malmsheimer and Melanie Arehart – scored two runs apiece. Still at home Thursday to face Hannibal, the Lakers turned it around and, with a late comeback, beat the Warriors 5-4. In fact, Skaneateles trailed 4-0 going into the bottom of the third. But it scored twice in that inning to cut it to 4-2 and tied it with single runs in the fifth and sixth before winning the game with a run in the seventh. Hamilton scored the decisive run off an error on Alyssa Stevens’ grounder. Hamilton and Emilie Garcia each had two hits to lead the comeback. Garcia, Singler and Mary Buck scored the other runs. Garcia also made her first varsity appearance in the pitcher’s circle, improving as the game went along as she struck out seven. This led the Lakers to the Phoenix Tournament, which began Saturday with a game against rival Marcellus – and one bad inning that proved costly in a 6-2 loss to the Mustangs. Trailing 1-0, Skaneateles went in front in the bottom of the fourth, Erica Nye earning an RBI as Hamilton and Stevens scored the runs. However, Marcellus countered with five runs in the top of the fifth to move in front for good. Moved into the consolation game against Mexico, the Lakers lost again, 11-8, to the Tigers, again unable to hold a lead as, up 2-0, it gave up six runs in the top of the third and, despite some late offense, never could quite catch up. Garcia, in defeat, earned two hits and a pair of RBIs as she also pitched and struck out five Mexico batters. Singler also drove in two runs. Cargile, Tomlinson and Carrie Hinchman each scored twice as Mary Buck also scored a run.