Much of Gene Crockett’s spring has been spent teaching a season-long class in the finer points of baseball to a rebuilding Nokomis High team.

Crockett, the Warriors’ veteran coach, will conduct a final exam of sorts Thursday, and it will be a marathon.

Its schedule backed up by the rains that have soaked Eastern Maine during the last several days, Nokomis will end its season by playing three games against three different opponents in both baseball and softball.

All the games will be played at Hampden Academy, rather than on the Warriors’ home fields in Newport.

“Our field is under water,” Crockett said. “There was no way to get it ready to play on.”

With preliminary-round playoff games scheduled for early next week, Thursday is the last day regular-season games can be played under Maine Principals’ Association rules. As a result, Nokomis will face Foxcroft Academy at 9 a.m., then play Caribou at noon before completing the tripleheader against Hampden at 3:30.

After each game ends, the teams that just played will help prepare the fields for the next game, said Hampden Academy athletic director Tom Winston.

The game against Caribou originally was part of a doubleheader played at Newport last Saturday. Nokomis won the opener 7-4, but the second game was rained out and rescheduled for Tuesday, only to be rained out again.

Nokomis was supposed to play Hampden on Monday and Foxcroft on Wednesday, but both those games also were washed out.

“We had already rescheduled the Caribou and Hampden games, and the Foxcroft game was pretty important for them, because it might be the difference between getting a bye or having to play a preliminary game,” Crockett said.

Foxcroft began the week ranked fifth in Eastern B, narrowly ahead of sixth-place John Bapst of Bangor. John Bapst has a makeup game against Hermon at Husson College on Thursday, and how 10-5 Foxcroft and 7-8 John Bapst fare in their regular-season finales likely will determine which team gets the fifth and final preliminary-round bye in the division.

At 2-11, the Nokomis baseball team has no such playoff hopes, but Crockett believes his team is looking forward to the unique tripleheader.

“I don’t think it will bother them,” he said. “In fact, they’re fairly excited about playing.”