The severing of relationships between Husson College and St. Joseph’s College will apparently not apply to the postseason, so the NAIA District 5 Baseball Tournament, which will involve both schools, will not be jeopardized.

Their regular season doubleheader slated Sunday in Standish was canceled due to the mutual agreement reached on Friday to suspend athletic competition between the two institutions.

St. Joseph’s, 17-19 overall and 11-1 in the district, is the top seed for the tournament, which the Monks have won the last three years. Husson, 17-17 and 11-1, is the No. 2, the University of Maine-Farmington, 15-6, 9-3, is No. 3, and Castleton (Vt.) State, 10-9, 6-2, is No. 4.

St. Joseph’s and Castleton State will open the four-team, double-elimination tourney at Ward Field in Standish on Thursday at 11 a.m. with Husson playing UMF at 2:30 p.m. The losers will play at 6 p.m.

Thursday’s winners will play at 11 a.m. Friday and the teams with one loss apiece will play at 3 p.m. The first championship game will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. with the if-necessary game scheduled for 6 p.m.

The winner will advance to the Area 8 Tournament in Wilmington, Del., May 15-17.

“When I spoke with our president (Loring Hart) last week, he said it was not his intention or the intention of any of our representatives to carry it (the severing of competition) into the playoffs,” said St. Joseph’s College Athletic Director Rick Simonds. “Therefore, it is my assumption that will be the case. But I’m not the final authority.”

Husson College baseball coach John Kolasinski said he hasn’t heard anything one way or the other “but I’m assuming that we would play them because I haven’t heard that we won’t.”

The earliest the two could meet would be in the losers bracket Thursday or the winners bracket Friday.