Rain washed away Butler's season finale. Slippery Rock hopes its final game won't come for a little while longer.

The BlueSox and Lorain County were locked in a scoreless tie in the fourth inning when rains came and flooded the field at Pullman Park Saturday night.

Meanwhile in Slippery Rock, the Sliders were putting the finishing touches on an 11-3 win over West Virginia — the team it will face in a one-game playoff in Beckley, W.Va., tonight.

West Virginia was the first-half East Division champion; Slippery Rock wrapped up the second-half title Friday night.

The winner will travel to either Quincy or Terre Haute for the league championship game on Wednesday.

Slippery Rock and West Virginia split their 10 regular season meetings this year.

The meeting Saturday was little more than a scrimmage.

The Sliders used five pitchers and 13 position players in the game. The Miners used two position players on the mound.

West Virginia's Abe Ruiz, used mostly as a designated hitter this season, played four different positions in the game, including pitcher.

His outing didn't go so well, however.

He walked five and gave up five runs in 1-3 of an inning. Ruiz, though, didn't give up a hit.

Sam Frost, usually a middle infielder for the Miners, also pitched.

Jon Capasso had three hits and Fred Ford doubled, singled and drove in four runs for the Sliders.

Butler was chasing Slippery Rock in the standings for most of the second half, but its loss on Friday to West Virginia eliminated the BlueSox and gave Slippery Rock the division title.

“It's been a very positive experience this summer,” said Butler manager Anthony Rebyanski. “I got a lot out of it and I hope they got a lot out of it as well.”

Pitching became thin for the BlueSox in the final week.

Corey Young, who hadn't started a game all season, took the hill to begin Friday's game and threw 115 pitches in 6 1-3 innings.

Butler graduate Ryan Fennell, who joined the team less than two weeks ago, finished the game for Butler.

“This is a great group of guys,” Rebyanski said. “The chemistry was outstanding, and it's hard to put something together like this in two months. They grew together and that's what baseball is all about.”

Rebyanski said he hopes to return to manage the cub next season.

Rebyanski, who is an assistant baseball coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania is getting married this weekend.

If he does return, there is one big thing he learned this summer than he will change next year.

“Pitching,” he said. “You have to have enough pitching to last you throughout the summer. I knew that coming in. We had 12, 13 guys, but we had a couple of guys shut down and a couple of guys hurt. Their college teams, they are going to shut down guys if they get up to a certain amount of innings. You can never have enough pitching. I think 14 might be the magic number.”