Saturday’s rain spoiled the plans for many local softball and baseball teams ready to begin play, or continue playing, in TSSAA district tournaments this week. In all 13 softball games were washed out.
The District 6-A softball tournament at Sale Creek had its two play-in games wiped out. Sale Creek assistant coach Kendra Goforth said those games are now scheduled for today at 5 and 7 p.m.
If the rest of the tournament runs a day behind, as it stands now, that would put the losers-bracket final on Friday at 5 p.m., with the championship at 7. If necessary, a second championship game may have to be played afterward if the TSSAA enforces its rule that district tournaments are to be completed Friday.
Goforth said they don’t want to schedule more than two games per day during the week because of End-of-Course testing today through Thursday this week, and most teams in that district have lengthy trips to get there. Tournament officials plan on contacting the TSSAA office today to try to get the ‘if’ game moved to Saturday.
“If a team comes through the losers bracket and gets to the championship and wins that first game, that would put them playing three games in one day,” Goforth said. “Single-A is a lot differnt than double-A or triple-A. We don’t have the number of players or pitchers that they do.”