BATON ROUGE – Mother Nature intervened midway through Northwestern State's non-conference baseball game at Southern on Wednesday night.
 
With the Demons leading 2-0 in the top of the fourth inning, rain began to fall, turning the Lee-Hines Stadium surface unplayable and leading to the cancelation of the game.
 
Northwestern took a 1-0 lead on Bryce Johnson's leadoff home run in the second inning and had just added a second run on a wild pitch before the rain delay began.
 
After two quick innings, Northwestern right-hander Caden Fiveash worked out of trouble in the third, working around a leadoff double to post a scoreless inning.
 
The Demons will return to action Friday night when they host Stephen F. Austin in the opener of a three-game Southland Conference series. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. at Brown-Stroud Field as the Demons play their final three home games of the regular season.