Rain cancelled several Scotland High School sporting events on Tuesday, including the varsity baseball showdown between Scotland and Hoke County that will decide first place in the Mid-Southeastern 4-A Conference.

Scotland baseball will play at Hoke today at 7 p.m., and the Scotland varsity softball team will play at Hoke at 6 p.m. The Scotland junior-varsity teams will host Hoke's jayvee teams at 5 p.m. today.

The Scotland tennis team's first-round dual team playoff match at Greenville Rose was cancelled and will be played today.

The Scotland baseball team is gunning for its first Mid-Southeastern 4-A Conference championship since 2006 — the year the Scots won the N.C. 4-A state title. Scotland fell to 7-4 overall and 3-2 in the M-SEC with an 8-0 loss to Hoke at home on Mar. 31; junior lefty Ronald Womack struck out 15 and threw a no-hitter against the Scots on that night.

Scotland (14-5, 10-2) has won seven of eight, including seven straight in the M-SEC, since the Hoke loss, and a 4-0 win over Richmond, coupled with Hoke's surprising 14-1 loss to Douglas Byrd, gave the Scots sole possession of first place for the first time all season.

Scotland is in the driver' seat, and will clinch what would be SHS head coach Tommy Britt's 11th conference title in 17 seasons with a win tonight. The key to the game will be how Scotland's lineup handles Womack the second time around.

"Well, I'll throw a lot of BP because I'm left-handed, but I can't throw it 86, 87," Coach Britt said. "I'll get about 45 feet from the plate and do a lot of BP ... You can't simulate a left-hander, can't simulate a right-hander, but we'll crank it up the best we can and get ready for him."

Scotland has its own impressive pitching duo to turn to in tonight's game. Senior Ryan Pierce has performed well in big spots all season, and freshman Curt Britt is 5-0 and coming off possibly his best performance of the year, a two-hit shutout, complete with seven strikeouts, in Friday's win over Richmond.

The Scotland varsity softball team is not mathematically eliminated from conference-championship contention either. The Lady Scots (17-3, 9-2) trail Richmond (14-4, 11-0) by two games with three games left to be played. The Raiders handed the Scots their only two M-SEC losses this year, and both were in one-run games (4-3 loss at Richmond Mar. 27; 2-1 loss to Richmond at home on Friday).

The Scotland softball team beat Hoke 12-2 in Laurinburg back on Mar. 31.