Call it a big break.

The rain that attacked Lawrence on Friday did more than just wipe out the final seven outs of a high school baseball game.

The thunderstorm came to Hoglund Ballpark and washed away the end of Lawrence High’s game with Omaha (Neb.) Creighton Prep with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning. LHS, the home team, was trailing 7-2 with Tom Bush up to bat.

But wait. Since the bottom of the sixth inning wasn’t completed, the top of the sixth inning doesn’t count, either, since the home team was trailing. That’s the inning in which Creighton Prep plated five runs on four hits, deflating the Lions in what had been a clean, quick-moving game.

With the incomplete sixth inning moot, the score officially was 2-all when rain halted the action.

LHS coach David Petry doesn’t know what the final verdict on the bizarre ballgame will be. Either the game will be ruled a tie, or the game won’t count at all.

“I don’t want it to end in a tie, and I don’t want it to end short of a full game, period.” Petry said. “Our kids need to play. That’s how we’re going to get better. But if it ends the way it did, obviously it kept us from getting a loss.”

Lawrence (5-6 before Friday) was down 2-0 after two innings, but tied the game in the third thanks to timely hitting. Marc Albers led off the inning by smoking a triple into the gap, then scored on a Brian Heere single. Heere later scored on a Ryan Engel single to tie the game.

They were Lawrence’s only three base-runners on the day.

As Lawrence High coaches discuss the weather in the background, the Lions' Joe Crane watches rain fall on Hoglund Ballpark. All games at all sites of the River City Baseball Festival on Friday were called off because of wet weather.

The game was postponed around 1:40 p.m. in the bottom of the sixth, right after Engel and Joe Crane were retired by Blue Jay pitcher Alex Hale. It was called an hour later.

What comes of it now is up in the air. Petry said he’d prefer the game get erased so the Lions could schedule another game later to fulfill their 20-game regular season schedule. With an abundance of postponements from the second day of the River City Baseball Festival, many other schools, including Free State, would be in the same boat.

Should the storms stay away today, Lawrence will play Kansas City (Mo.) Winnetonka at 2 p.m. at Ice Field in the final day of the Festival.

Lawrence 2, Omaha (Neb.) Creighton Prep 2

Creighton Prep 110 00 — 2 4 0

Lawrence High 002 00 — 2 3 2

6Sports video: LHS baseball rained out in sixth inning

2B — Creighton: Hale. 3B — Lawrence: Marc Albers.

LHS highlights: Marc Albers 1-for-2, 3B, R; Brian Heere 1-for-2, RBI; Ryan Engel 1-for-3, RBI, SB.