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The e-mails regarding high school basketball sub-states started for Rod Browning, Remington’s athletic director and boys basketball coach, on Saturday.
With no school on Thursday and Friday, certain forms hadn’t been sent or received. Then Monday, with the promise of a snowstorm coming, the e-mails and phone calls between coaches and athletic directors in the Conway Springs sub-state escalated.
The result is Monday’s games being postponed and some schools hosting games that don’t include their teams.
“The (Kansas State High School Activities Association) has to worry about a million sub-states, and we just are worried about ours,” said James O’Brien, Conway Springs athletic director and boys coach. “It’s been tough, but the coaches and ADs have been great.
“Everybody understands we’re trying to get games in this week. We don’t want to play back-to-back games if we don’t have to.”
Remington’s situation is simple. Both boys and girls were higher seeds, so they merely moved Monday’s girls game to 6 p.m. Tuesday, the boys game back a half-hour to 7:30 on Tuesday.
“That was an easy thing right there,” Browning said. “It eliminates the need for two (crews of) officials and it puts them in the same spot.”
But the Garden Plain girls, the top-seeded team in the sub-state, won’t get to host their first-round game against Belle Plaine. Instead, they’ll play Belle Plaine at Sedgwick, which is where Garden Plain boys will be, as well.
Independent will host its boys game at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and will be the site for the Douglass-Sedgwick girls at 6.
“I feel bad for those teams that earned the right to host,” O’Brien said. “But people have stepped up to say they’d host …. All are doing their part to make it as smooth as possible.”
There is a chance that the majority of Monday’s and Tuesday’s nearly 300 basketball games would be postponed. If that happens, Fran Martin, KSHSAA assistant executive director, said there would be four quarterfinal games on Wednesday, four on Thursday.
So in Class 3A, where girls were scheduled for Monday, they would play their quarterfinal games on Wednesday, boys on Thursday, semifinals on Friday and championships Saturday.
“We’re trying to work with it as best we can,” Martin said. “The challenge is, particularly Wednesday and Thursday, we have almost every official assigned some place. If we can have more than one game at a site and use the same set of officials for two games, that’s best.”
Here’s a list of updated postponements. To report a postponement, e-mail sportsdesk@wichitaeagle.com.
BOYS
CLASS 4A
Atchison at Basehor-Linwood, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday
Augusta at Collegiate, 7 p.m. Tuesday
Baxter Springs at Anderson County, no rescheduled day
Bonner Springs at Tonganoxie, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday
Buhler at Abilene, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Chapman at Concordia, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Circle at Coffeyville, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday
Clay Center at Hesston, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Columbus at Pittsburg, 5 p.m. Monday
Eudora at Paola, 3:45 p.m. Monday
Fort Scott at Frontenac, 6 p.m. Monday
Hugoton at Andale, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Jefferson West at Wamego, no rescheduled day
KC Ward vs. KC Sumner at Bonner Springs, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday
Larned at Pratt, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Louisburg at Baldwin, 4 p.m. Monday
Nickerson at Ulysses, 6 p.m. Wednesday
Osawatomie at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m. Monday
Parsons at Independence, 6 p.m. Monday
Perry-Lecompton at KC Piper, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday
Prairie View vs. Girard, 6 p.m. Wednesday
Rose Hill at Clearwater, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Royal Valley at Rock Creed, no rescheduled day
Santa Fe Trail at Highland Park, 5 p.m. Monday
Smoky Valley at McPherson, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Spring Hill at DeSoto, 3:30 p.m. Monday
Wellington at Trinity Academy, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Winfield at Mulvane, 6 p.m. Tuesday
CLASS 3A
Belle Plaine at Independent, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Bluestem at Remington, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Douglass at Conway Springs, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Garden Plain at Sedgwick, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Kingman at Holcomb, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday
Norton at Hoisington, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
CLASS 2A
Bishop Seabury at Lyndon, 5 p.m.
Canton-Galva at Central-Burden, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Chase County at Moundridge, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Ell-Saline at Washington County, no rescheduled game time
Ellinwood vs. Inman at Sterling, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Herington at Berean Academy, 7 p.m. Wednesday
KC Christian at Wabaunsee, 5 p.m. Monday
KC Maranatha at Burlingame, 5 p.m. Monday
Lincoln at Republic County, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Northern Heights at Marais des Cygnes, 5 p.m.
Madison at West Elk, no rescheduled game time
McLouth at Onaga, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Peabody-Burns at Oxford, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Pleasanton at NE-Arma, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Pratt Skyline at Little River, 7 p.m. Tuesday
Sterling at Kiowa County, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Uniontown at Sedan, 5:30 p.m. Monday
Wakefield at Solomon, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Yates Center at Oswego, 7 p.m. Monday
CLASS 1A-1
BV-Randolph vs. Valley Heights at Centralia, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Cedar Vale-Dexter vs. Caldwell, 7:30 p.m. Thursday
Clifton-Clyde vs. Linn at Centralia, 4:45 p.m. Wednesday
Deerfield vs. Bucklin at South Central, 4:30 p.m.
Elyria at Sylvan-Lucas, 7:30 p.m. Thursday
Flinthills vs. St. Paul, 4:30 p.m. Thursday
South Haven vs. Caldwell-Cedar Vale-Dexter winner, 7:30 p.m. Friday
Spearville vs. Satanta at South Central, 6 p.m. Thursday
Udall vs. St. Paul-Flinthills winner, 4:30 p.m. Friday
CLASS 1A-II
Altoona-Midway vs. Elk Valley at Allen County, 6 p.m. Wednesday
Argonia at South Barber, 7:30 p.m. Thursday
Norwich vs. Stafford at South Barber, 4:30 p.m. Thursday
St. Xavier at Tescott, 7:30 p.m. Thursday
GIRLS
CLASS 4A
Augusta at Trinity Academy, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Basehor-Linwood at KC Piper, 5 p.m. Wednesday
Baxter Springs at Girard, 6 p.m. Monday
Buhler at Abilene, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Chapman at McPherson, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Collegiate at Mulvane, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
KC Sumner at Tonganoxie, 5 p.m. Wednesday
KC Ward vs. Atchison at Basehor-Linwood 5 p.m. Wednesday
Nickerson at Andale, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Perry-Lecompton at Bonner Springs, 5 p.m. Wednesday
Rose Hill at Clearwater, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Smoky Valley at Hesston, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Ulysses at Pratt, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Winfield at Wellington, 7 p.m. Tuesday
CLASS 3A
Beloit at Ellsworth, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Bluestem at Conway Springs, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Douglass vs. Sedgwick at Independent, 6 p.m. TuesdayGalena at Erie, no rescheduled game time
Garden Plain vs. Belle Plaine at Sedgwick, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Hiawatha at Atchison County, 5 p.m. Monday
Horton at Nemaha Valley, 5 p.m. Monday
Humboldt at Jayhawk-Linn, 4:30 p.m. Monday
Independent at Remington, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Lakin at Cheney, no rescheduled day
Lyons vs. Halstead at Hillsboro, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday
Marion at Hillsboro, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Maur Hill-Mt. Academy at Riverside, 5:30 p.m. Monday
Minneapolis at Norton, 6 p.m. Wednesday
Neodesha at Caney Valley, 6 p.m. Monday
Osage City at Riley County, 3 p.m. Monday
Phillipsburg at Hoisington, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Pittsburg Colgan at SE-Cherokee, no rescheduled game time
Pleasant Ridge at Sabetha, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Riverton at Cherryvale, 5 p.m. Wednesday
Rossville at Silver Lake, 5 p.m. Monday
Sacred Heart vs. Haven at Hillsboro, 3 p.m. Wednesday
SE-Saline vs. Hutchinson Trinity at Hillsboro, 6 p.m. Wednesday
Thomas More Prep at Russell, 7 p.m. WednesdayWellsville at Fredonia, 6 p.m. Wednesday
CLASS 2A
McLouth at Onaga, 6 p.m. Wednesday
CLASS 1A-I
BV-Randolph vs. Linn at Centralia, 6:15 p.m. Wednesday
Cedar Vale-Dexter vs. South Haven-Udall winner, 6 p.m. Friday
Clifton-Clyde at Centralia, 3:15 p.m. Thurdsay
Deerfield vs. Satanta at South Central, 3 p.m. Thursday
Flinthills vs. Caldwell at Udall, 3 p.m. Thursday
Marmaton Valley vs. Hartford at Olpe, no rescheduled game time
Minneola at South Central, 7:30 Thursday
Olathe Heritage Christian Academy vs. Lebo, 44 p.m. Thursday
South Haven at Udall, 6 p.m. Thursday
St. Paul vs. Caldwell-Flinthills winner, 3 p.m. Friday
CLASS 1A-II
Altoona-Midway vs. Crest at Allen County, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Attica vs. Cunningham at South Barber, 3 p.m. Thursday
Greeley County vs. Fowler at Ingalls, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Rolla vs. Ashland at Ingalls, 6 p.m. Wednesday
Stafford at South Barber, 6 p.m. Thursday
St. Xavier at Tescott, 6 p.m. Thursday
