LAWRENCE HIGH'S AARON REA puts the tag on Shawnee Mission North baserunner Joe Cowan during the second inning. The two teams played to a 4-4 tie at Ice Field in a game halted after six innings due to lightning.

The lights went out, and then the lightning struck.

That improbable series of events during Tuesday night’s bizarre Lawrence High-Shawnee Mission North baseball game led to the game being called with the score tied at 4-4 in the seventh inning.

The game will revert to the start of that inning, and will likely will be completed Saturday afternoon.

“It was probably one of the weirdest games,” Lawrence High’s Jordan Guntert said. “Mother Nature’s always going to happen. … But lights going off – that’s something that’s never happened.”

During the bottom of the sixth inning, someone in the Holcom Park concessions booth mistakenly turned off the stadium lights for Ice Field. The lights took 15 minutes to power up, and without that delay, the teams likely would have finished the game, which lightning halted during the top of the seventh.

Both the LHS and Shawnee Mission North coaches tentatively have agreed to play the final inning Saturday immediately following Lawrence High’s noon home game against Blue Valley North.

“Hopefully the umpire crew will stick around,” LHS coach Brad Stoll said. “It’s just disappointing because it would have been nice to get it in and just move on.”

For the second consecutive game, the Lions could not capitalize on a bases-loaded opportunity. During the first inning, Guntert reached on an error, Nick DeBiasse singled and Tony Williams walked, but LHS did not drive any of them in.

“That hurt,” Stoll said.

Instead, North took a 2-0 lead into the third inning. The Lions’ bats, however, came alive during the bottom of that frame. Travis Sanders led off with a single, and Guntert followed by launching a first-pitch fastball over the center-field fence for his third home run of the year. Later that inning, Clint Pinnick continued his hot-hitting ways, plating Williams with a double to give LHS a 3-2 advantage.

“He’s in a good zone,” Stoll said. “The ball must look like a grapefruit because he’s putting some real good swings on balls.”

North regained the lead during the next inning. Joe Cowan walked, and Tommy Lisky singled. A sacrifice bunt scored Cowan, and a Zach Gabriel single scored Lisky.

The real drama occurred during the sixth inning. Drew Hulse reached on an error just before the lights went out. After play resumed, Aaron Rea reached first base when North pitcher Gage Daniels plunked him. Daniel Parker singled to score Hulse, tying the game at 4-4.

“We started hitting the ball,” Guntert said, “and got back into it.”

Dorian Green started the game, allowing four runs in four innings before Joe Muiller and Joe Kornbrust combined for two innings of hitless, shutout relief.

Kornbrust struck out Aaron Burke to begin the seventh. After Burke’s at-bat, the umpires stopped play because of nearby lightning.

“Joe was pitching really well. We thought we could ride his outing,” Stoll said. “At least there’s some momentum going in (to Saturday).”