Norwich – For the first time in roughly 30 years, rain forced the postponement of the Norwich Invitational championship match.

Finalists Chris DeLucia and Holden Sullivan will play for the title at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at Norwich Golf Course.

“Some of the guys who have been around for a while said there was one year 30 or 40 years back the championship match got suspended like this as well,” pro Mike Svab said.

Golfers in all flights battled miserable conditions during the soggy 97th Norwich Invite.

It just may take until the rescheduled match on Aug. 19 for the rain-soaked golfers to finally dry out.

“I give the players all the credit in the world today,” Svab said. “They started in the rain and they slugged it out the whole day until the course couldn’t take it anymore.

“We had a couple downpours at around 12-12:30 that the course couldn’t overcome. We have one of the best draining golf courses and the rain was too much. There’s no way we could have played the championship.”

The championship flight semifinals were halted at one point for about an hour but the four remaining golfers managed to resume play and finish the round.

“They were on the 14th hole and we pulled them in,” Svab said. “The decision was made to try to finish this round. We had one little window for about 45 minutes. They finished and they were both actually good matches.”

DeLucia, the No. 15 seed, out-lasted No. 3 Steve Chevalier, 2 and 1, in the semifinals while Sullivan, the top seed, won by the same score over No. 12 Sean Vigue.

Sullivan, the son of Connecticut Sun president Jennifer Rizzotti, was the medalist in qualifying round action on Friday, firing a 5-under 66. He’ll be appearing in his first Norwich Invite final. He reached the semifinals of the First Flight last year.

DeLucia, who has won multiple Norwich Golf Course men’s club titles, will be vying for his second Invite title, earning his first one in 2018.

Svab expects the rescheduled championship match in August will be well attended.

“We’re going to shut the whole place down just for that,” Svab said. “We’ll have a really good crowd with the DeLucia crowd and Sullivan crowd. It will be a really nice event.”

Then Svab added: “It better not rain that day.”

FCBL

• The Norwich Sea Unicorns beat the host Vermont Lake Monsters 4-1 in a Futures Collegiate Baseball League game. The game was called after five innings due to rain and the second game of the doubleheader was canceled.

Matt Wootton (Eastern Connecticut) pitched a two-hitter for the win. Andrew Bianco (New Haven) drove in three runs, two coming on a first-inning double. DJ Perron (Rhode Island) had a triple for Norwich (29-16).

NECBL

• Five players from the Mystic Schooners were selected to play in the New England Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game on Sunday, July 23 at Lynn, Mass.

The five will play for the Eastern Division team. Anthony DePino (Rhode Island) is the starting third baseman and Jay Allmer (Seton Hall) was picked as the closer. Pitchers Everett Catlett (Georgetown) and former Wheeler standout Bowen Baker (Fairfield) are reserve pitchers and Mike Bello (Auburn) is a reserve outfielder. Danbury Westerners pitcher Braden Quinn of UConn is a reserve on the West Division team.

The Schooners’ game against the Newport Gulls at Dodd Stadium in Norwich was postponed due to rain. It will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Wednesday, July 26 beginning at 3 p.m.

The Schooners (19-12) lost to the Vermont Mountaineers 11-3 on Saturday night. Jack Goodman (Pepperdine) hit a solo homer run in the top of the seventh inning and Sam Kirkpatrick (Belmont) was 2-for-4 and scored a run for Mystic.

Speedbowl

• Cory DiMatteo picked up the win in his first SK Modified race of the season at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl on Saturday night. DiMatteo was followed to the finish line by Andrew Molleur and Eric Berndt.

Waterford’s Brody Monahan, 14, broke the track record with his sixth straight win in the Trucks Division. Other winners included Molleur (Late Models), Jaysin Beal (Street Stocks), Charles Canfield (Mini Stocks) and Isaiah Newcomb (Legend Cars).