MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Instead of playing this week, a Twin Cities baseball team is on the sidelines thanks to a canceled flight. For the Anoka-Ramsey Community College Baseball team, the Tucson Invitational is a reward for all their hard work. They play 10 games there, a fifth of their entire schedule. And since they couldn’t go for the past two years, this trip was going to be even more special. READ MORE: Minneapolis teachers’ strike enters second week; Negotiations still ongoing “It’s one of the highlights of our season, and being in this situation right now is disappointing,” coach Jason Saulsbury said. The team’s flight in Sun Country was supposed to depart from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport at 9:20 pm on Sunday. But a couple of hours before that, Saulsbury received an email saying the flight had been cancelled, although no reason was given. “It was a random email and that was it. I was like OK, mass panic now. Get on the phone,” Saulsbury said. “I was on hold at one point for a call, 2 1/2 hours and the other was 45 minutes.” When he finally got in touch with someone at Sun Country, Saulsbury said the best they could offer him was to split him up into three groups and fly them one group at a time to Phoenix on Wednesday, which is still a two-hour drive away. Tucson car. end up. “I am absolutely heartbroken. She kind of started crying,” Jen Kouri said. Kouri’s son Jake plays first base and his daughter Megan handles social media for the team. Kouri and her husband left work and flew to Arizona on a different airline, but now they don’t have a team to watch over. Because Anoka-Ramsey does their own fundraising for the trip, Jake spent hundreds of dollars out of his own pocket to make it happen. But so far, they are on the wrong side of a different kind of exclusion. “I’m just praying that something will work out, somehow. Because I can’t imagine sitting here for four days while Jake is home,” Kouri said. Sun Country said several flights were canceled Sunday night due to weather in the southeastern part of the country. MORE NEWS: COVID in Minnesota: 530 More Cases and 16 Deaths as Positivity Rate Continues to Drop Holidays combined with staffing issues have created more challenges than in years past.