Rain washes out Menominee County baseball games, forces schedule changes

Rain knocked out a full slate of amateur baseball across northeast Wisconsin, including the Menominee-linked games that local fans had circled for May 17.

All five Dairyland League games and 10 Badger Amateur Baseball Association contests scheduled for that day were postponed after heavy rain washed out the fields, forcing league officials to redraw the weekend rather than simply reset one or two isolated matchups. For Menominee County, the most immediate loss was the Menominee game at Shawano, a matchup set for 1:30 p.m. that was wiped from the Sunday card along with Marion at Gresham and the rest of the day’s schedule.

The Badger Amateur Baseball Association, which says it has operated since 1946 and calls itself Central Wisconsin’s most historic amateur baseball league, said its Sunday, May 17 Week 2 games were postponed because of rain and would be made up later. The league’s 2026 schedule stretches across more than 20 teams in the East, West, North and South-Central divisions, so one rainout rippled through standings, travel plans and field work across a wide area. Neopit is not fielding a team this season after previously competing in the East Division with Shawano, Gresham, Menominee, Clintonville and Marion.

League officials moved quickly to rebuild the calendar. Marinette at Navarino was set for May 21, followed by May 22 games that included Pulaski at Cecil, Shawano at Hortonville and Hofa Park at Bonduel, with Waupaca on a bye at Nichols. Another round of makeup games was also listed for May 24, including Gresham at Menominee, Little Falls at Wittenberg and several North Division matchups. That gives Menominee another home date in the shuffle, but it also compresses the schedule for pitchers, field crews and families trying to keep up with the season.

The Menominee club is listed on the BABA site as the Menominee Indians, and the tribe’s own history in Wisconsin reaches back 10,000 years, with the reservation in the region now known as Menominee County. For local baseball, though, the immediate story was simpler: rain took away a Sunday at the diamond, and the league spent the rest of the week trying to fit the season back together.

Fans, players and coaches checking plans before heading out should use the league’s official schedule and standings pages, since makeup dates can keep shifting as weather and field conditions change across the division slate.