RAPID CITY - Rain proved to be the big winner Thursday at the Marshall Tubbs American Legion baseball classic at Fitzgerald Stadium.

Three games were washed out and a fourth contest was suspended in the fifth inning with the score knotted 3-3.

That game, between Spearfish Post 164 and the Aberdeen Smittys, will resume Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

Wet field conditions forced postponement of the scheduled 5 p.m. game between the Smittys and Monarch High School of Denver, as well as cancellation of the final game between Rapid City Post 22 and Colorado Springs, Colo.

The Aberdeen-Monarch contest is rescheduled for 9:30 a.m. today at Fitzgerald Stadium. The Post 22-Colorado Springs game will not be made up.

Spearfish Post 164 scored all three runs in a four-hit fourth inning. Jordan Johnson, Dustin Wisener and Allen Hemeyer all hit and scored and Ryan Royer also recorded an RBI for Spearfish.

A changed call helped the Smittys tie the game in the fifth as rain threatened.

Matt Kervin and Shane Cunningham scored to make the tally 3-2, then Evan Nolte hit into was originally called an inning-ending play at first.

But, on an Aberdeen appeal, plate umpire Clyde Millslagle ruled Nolte safe because a throw had pulled Spearfish first baseman Rick White off the bag.

Nolte was later waved home from third by Millslagle after another Spearfish throwing error, on a single by Blair Frederickson, bounced into the stands.

"That was a huge call for us," said Aberdeen assistant coach John Krogstrand. "That made it a suspended game instead of a win for Spearfish."

Marshall Tubbs Classic revised schedule

Today

9:30 a.m. - Aberdeen vs. Denver Monarch High School

Noon - Rapid City Split Squad vs. Colorado Springs, Colo.

2:30 p.m. - Denver Monarch High School vs. Colorado Springs, Colo.

5 p.m. - Rapid City Post 22 vs. Spearfish Post 164

7:30 p.m. - Rapid City Post 22 vs. Aberdeen.

Saturday

9:30 a.m. - Aberdeen Smittys vs. Spearfish Post 164 (suspended after five innings tied 3-3).

Noon - Rapid City Split Squad vs. Aberdeen Smittys

2:30 p.m. - Colorado Springs, Colo., vs. Spearfish.

5 p.m. - Rapid City Split Squad vs. Denver Monarch High School.

7:30 p.m. - Rapid City Post 22 vs. Denver Monarch High School.