2A sub-district tournament goes belly up
June 12th, 2012 by nathan joyceThe agreement between the Olympic, Seamount and South Puget
Sound leagues for a Class 2A West Central District sub-district
tournament has come to an end.
The tournament was used for volleyball, soccer, basketball,
baseball and softball.
It basically came down to travel. The teams on the east side of the
Narrows Bridge did not want to travel to Port Angeles or Sequim for
postseason tournaments. The Olympic League teams stood with their
Clallam County brothers out of principal. If PA or Sequim earned a
high enough seed to host a postseason tournament or game, it should
host, the other Olympic League teams reasoned. The Roughriders and
Wolves often drive to Pierce County for playoff games.
The Seamount/SPSL teams decided it wasn’t worth the time and travel
costs.
Now all three leagues have some work to do over the summer to
decide what will happen next year. Football could likely remain the
same (with all three leagues pooling berths and hosting a playoff
into state) as all those teams would have Week 10 off. Football
schedules are set and it’s not possible to get that many non-league
games to fill an extra week.
Also on the agenda for the Olympic League will be to decide if it
will have a league tournament to decide teams/seeds into the
district tournament or just let the regular season decide it.
Also, the structure for the district tournament is up for grabs.
The sub-district tourney took 16 teams, whittled them down to 12
and that was the field for the district tourney. Will the tourney
stay at 12 teams or will it change?
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June 13th, 2012 at 7:03 am
Wow, it is ok for the poor country folk in Clallam County to travel to the big city to compete with teams of the same caliber, but heaven forbid the larger metropolitan areas with the larger tax base put out a little money to travel to the sticks and play a game that these young athletes earned the right to play in. I have three sons involved in Sequim sports, I feel kind of like the Mariners and Seahawks, besides Port Angeles, North Kitsap (1 hour drive one way) is our closest league game during the regular season. And when it comes to playoffs like football we have to play in the closest turf (North Kitsap)field for a home game earned by being league champs, baseball tournament we played a morning game in Silverdale than had to go to Tacoma to play the afternoon game, than the next day if we won that game, back to Tacoma for another game. So figure gas, game tickets bridge toll, yeah this is real fair to the families and kids that happen to live on the Olympic Peninsula.