AHSAA back on track after postponements
Published 7:36 pm Monday, May 4, 2009
The Alabama High School Athletic Association turned the tentative plans for the postponed postseason events from last weekend into finalized plans Monday morning.
“While we apologize for the disruption of our original playoff schedule, we made the safe decision for the children of this state and also insured that students at all our member schools would have the opportunity to participate in our post-season athletic events,” said Steve Savarese, AHSAA executive director, on the association’s Web site.
All AHSAA activities will resume today.
The Charles Henderson baseball Trojans were slated for a weekend best-of-three series with St. Paul’s in Mobile.
The Trojans and Saints will play a doubleheader today beginning at 4:30 p.m. and will play game three tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. if needed.
The track and field state championships were also affected and were scheduled to be split between Troy and Gulf Shores. Now all classifications will compete in Gulf Shores May 7-9. The tentative schedule is for classes 1A-3A to compete May 7-8 and classes 4A-6A to compete May 8-9.
The CHHS softball team, CHHS golf team, Goshen softball team and Pike County softball team had tournaments postponed from last weekend until today.
All three area softball teams will take part in their respective area tournament today.
The No. 3-seeded Lady Trojans face Rehobeth at 10 a.m. in Eufaula at Old Creek Town Park in the double elimination tournament. The squad’s next game would be at noon.
The No. 2-seeded Lady Eagles face Highland Home at 11 a.m. at Zion Chapel in a three-team, double elimination tournament.
Pike County softball coach Krista Agerton could not be reached for comment.
The regional tournaments and state tournaments will be played as scheduled in all classifications.
All sub-state golf tournaments will be played today and the state tournament will be played as scheduled.