Wiscasset School Department’s athletic director-assistant principal Mandy Lewis said Monday, the number of prospective players for a high school baseball team next spring falls a few short so far. But she plans to get a team together, and plans to talk with the School Committee Thursday night to help develop a game plan to make that happen.

Lewis said she recently spoke with Boothbay Region High School’s athletic director Allan Crocker about the possibility of partnering on a team, but, for this year at least, Lewis said, it’s been determined a BRHS-Wiscasset Middle High School collaborative baseball team wouldn’t meet Maine Principals Association rules. Wiscasset and BRHS attempted a collaborative football team this year. Officials said no Wiscasset students showed up for fall practice.

The current count of prospective baseball players for WMHS stands at about six, Lewis said. She said the situation may largely stem from the lack of a middle school team to create a new crop of players each year to replace seniors. The middle school grades haven’t had a team for two years, she said. “So we’re in a bit of a pickle.”

That’s one of the points she wants to bring up to the committee. “Reintroducing the middle school program is essential to the program surviving,” Lewis said, adding that she plans to talk about how to try to assemble the spring 2017 team as well as the long-term strategy involving the middle school.

The committee meets at 6 p.m. in the WMHS library for the panel’s monthly meeting, and before that at 5 p.m. in the library for a workshop on the possible energy project the department has been exploring.

Siemens Energy Inc. is set to make a presentation at the workshop. The committee will take up next steps with Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot during the meeting that follows.