PROVIDENCE — Lighting associated with the severe weather that hit the area mid-afternoon Saturday, June 7, forced the postponement of the Mt. Hope High School-Narragansett boys' lacrosse Division III championship contest to the new week.

The Huskies and Mariners were slated to play the third of four league title games at Brown University's Stevenson-Pincince Field over the weekend. Instead, they will now return to the East Side of Providence Monday night, June 9. Face-off is 6 p.m.

The first game Saturday, the D-I tilt won by LaSalle over Moses Brown, went off without a hitch.

The second, for the D-II title between Portsmouth and East Greenwich, was played under threatening skies for three periods before it was halted for some 45 minutes due to electricity concerns. It was restarted and 11 of the 12 minutes of the final frame were completed before the storms returned and the game was declared over with the nearby Patriots well ahead.

The decision was then made by the Rhode Island Interscholastic League to move the remaining two games, including the last scheduled for the D-IV title between Scituate and Rogers, to Monday night back at Brown.

The top-seeded Huskies will be attempting to win the program's first-ever Division III title and first of any kind since 2010 when Mt. Hope won its third championship while competing in D-II.

The locals swept the third-seeded Mariners in a pair of regular season meetings, the second a 6-0 shutout by the Huskies on their Senior Night in late May in a game played on the artificial turf at Roger Williams University.

Mt. Hope made the most of its extra day of preparation, practicing on Portsmouth's turf field Sunday night, June 8.

Of the delay, Huskies' head coach Jay Spina said, "The kids were ready and wanted to play (Saturday). We were willing to sit for a three-hour delay, but not on the bus. The team wants (the championship) bad, so I suspect they will be geared up for tomorrow night."