BOONEVILLE, Miss. –  Northeast Mississippi Community College's softball team will have to wait a little longer to defend its Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) State runner-up finish.

With inclement weather projected for the south Mississippi region, officials have pushed the 2013 Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) State Softball Tournament to Sunday, May 5 and Monday, May 6.

Northeast's twelfth state tournament in the last 13 years has already seen one change. Due to the same inclement weather, the tournament was bumped to Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6 before landing at its new destination on Sunday, May 5 and Monday, May 6.

Northeast (23-14-1) will enter the 2013 version of the MACJC State Tournament as the four seed from the North Division and will take on the South's top team and tournament host Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the final game of the opening day at 6 p.m.

All games will be video streamed live at http://www.mgcccbulldogs.com.

However, Northeast and Mississippi Gulf Coast meeting in the state tournament is not something new.

Northeast and Mississippi Gulf Coast have faced each other to open three straight MACJC State Tournaments.

In 2011, Jody Long's Lady Tigers traveled to Perkinston to take on the Lady Bulldogs as Mississippi Gulf Coast hosted the event and Northeast and Mississippi Gulf Coast also faced off in the 2012 MACJC State Tournament in Fulton.

During the 2012 MACJC State Tournament, Northeast rallied by Mississippi Gulf Coast 3-1 in their opening game of the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) State Tournament in Fulton on the way to a state runner-up finish.

Northeast is hoping to replicate the success of the 2012 team that entered the state tournament as the third seed from the North Division but rallied during the postseason to finish as the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) State Runner-up and capped the season with a top three finish in the National Junior Colleges Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XXIII Tournament in Clinton.