The first few weeks of spring sports always come with a schedule written in pencil as local teams are waiting to see if the weather can get fields ready in time.

For Williston High, baseball is scheduled to begin in Bismarck on March 27 and outdoor track kicks off the next day in Cody, Wyo.

The Williston State baseball team travels to Glendive, Mont., on March 25 after spending a week in Arizona to get some time in the sunshine. Coach Kelly Heller said the team’s season-opening doubleheader on March 14 against the University of Arizona club team was the first time they’d been able to play outside.

The snow has melted fast in the last week in North Dakota, but there’s still plenty to go.

“Well, it's wet, and there's still a lot of snow,” said WHS athletic director Cory Hanson. Hanson said the school will have a good idea by the end of the week whether next weekend’s events can take place.

Coyotes’ baseball coach Brad Westphal said he doesn’t know if his team will play as scheduled, but he knows they’ll be ready to go.

The Coyotes’ schedule features a run of seven straight road games before hosting nine straight games, beginning April 20 against Beulah.

Hanson said the spring schedules are planned around the chance that weather might have an impact.

“We try to take a look at who might have a dry baseball field or might have a dry track, we're all tracking the snow,” Hanson said. “But in the end, we’re all in North Dakota.”