West Point to resume play at LLSWS Friday at new location

Tropical Storm Debby has the upper hand at the Little League Softball World Series.

Constant rain left teams sitting on their hands with no games to play for a second straight day in Greenville, N.C.

That includes Greensburg’s West Point 12U, which has gone 1-1 in the double-elimination tournament as it tries to fight through the losers’ bracket.

“We were up at 4:30 (a.m.) with tornado warnings in the halls,” West Point coach Tina Madison said about Thursday morning. “Then again at 8:30.

“The girls are riding it out.”

West Point still is awaiting its next opponent. The team gets the winner of Arizona and the Philippines.

There was a managers’ meeting Thursday, and it was decided to move the tournament to Max R. Joyner Family Stadium at East Carolina University, which also is in Greenville.

LLSWS host site Stallings Stadium was deemed unplayable after sustained rain.

West Point now will play at 3 p.m. Friday. ESPN2 will televise.

Arizona and the Philippines play at 11 a.m., so the winner will have a doubleheader.

West Point lost to Arizona, 2-1, in the opener last Sunday, then edged Italy, 2-1, on Wednesday.

West Point passed the time Thursday by going to the movies to see “Despicable Me 4.” Later in the day, when there was a break in the weather, the team hit inside the batting cages on site at Stallings Stadium.

The LLSWS ends Sunday.