It’s been a strange year for the Selma Recreation Department’s youth baseball and softball leagues. The first several weeks were dominated by heavy rain that forced the cancellation of several days of games, including nearly the entire first week of the season.

Since then, it’s hardly rained a drop and the dry weather has paid off for the city’s baseball and softball schedule. Interim recreation director Lebo Jones said by the end of the week nearly every age group will have completed all of its makeup games.

“We’ve made up the majority of the games already in our softball and 7-and 8-year-old baseball,” Jones said. “It’s a little harder to make up in 9-and-10 and 11-and-12 year-old baseball because of the pitching limitations. “

Jones said many of the 9-and-10 year old  and 11-and 12-year-old teams already have three games scheduled most weeks and they don’t want them to overdo it, but the younger age groups are coach pitch or use a pitching machine. Most of those games will be made up this week.

“We’ve made up the majority of the other games and with the good week [weather wise] we have this week, we should have be able to make up the rest of them by Saturday,” Jones said.

He said coaches have worked with him through all of the schedule changes. Jones said the only problems they run into when rescheduling games is when a coach helps out with more than one team.

“It’s going well and we’ve got the same amount of teams we’ve had the last several years,” Jones said. “Everything is going along fine.”