Spring break scheduling nightmare

 Baseball coaches can only shrug their shoulders.
 Track coaches cringe.
 That collective sigh of relief is because most spring coaches have been holding their breaths for two weeks.
 With high schools around the county having different dates for their spring breaks, league play has been put on hold for two weeks for most schools in baseball and track.
 Some baseball teams have not played in 13 days. That's a lot of practice time to absorb when you're more than halfway through the season.
 Salinas, which did find a tournament during its spring break, returns to league play Tuesday for the first time since March 27.
 Yeah, that's nearly three weeks between Gabilan Division games.
 It's silly.
 And it needs to be rectified.
 What other sport goes 18 days without a league game?
 Well, track does.
 Same problem.
 Yet, while baseball coaches hope a players swing doesn't go south, track coaches are crossing their fingers that a hamstring doesn't pop from a lack of activity.
 Lets face it. Practice does not provide the same adrenaline rush as a game or a meet.
 If you were a baseball team that didn't squeeze in a tournament, it might feel like you're starting over this week.
 Listen, when a kid makes a commitment to participate in a spring sport, that includes Spring Break parents.
 We don't need teams going 13 days without a game. It disrupts a season.
 And if you're Salinas, which has rattled off seven consecutive wins going into Tuesday's battle at  Monterey, do you think it wanted a 13-day layoff?