More bold, red lettering from the AHSAA

By David Morrison
High School Sports Reporter
Published: April 30, 2009

The AHSAA has pasted a tentative new schedule for all of this weekend’s events that were displaced by the swine flu announcement yesterday.

Some highlights:

- The 1A-3A track meet will be joining the 4A-6A one at Gulf Shores next Thursday through Saturday, with 1A-3A taking up Thursday and half of Friday and 4A-6A taking up the other half of Friday and Saturday. That’s on the same weekend that the South regional softball tournament descends on Gulf Shores. Probably won’t be much room at the inns.

- The third round of the baseball playoffs are being pushed back to Tuesday and Wednesday, with the semifinals still going on as planned Friday and Saturday. This will obviously favor teams with deeeeeeeeep pitching staffs.

- Softball area tournaments are being pushed back to Tuesday, and teams may play a single-elimination format if they all agree. The regional tournaments will go on as planned Friday and Saturday.

- The golf sub-state rounds that were scheduled for Monday will be pushed back to Tuesday. This does not affect Auburn High’s boys and girls, who were both already scheduled to play Tuesday. The state tournament will go on as planned May 11-12.

That is, of course, depending on the fact that no more cases of the swine flu are reported and the AHSAA gets the “all clear” from the Department of Health and its Medical Advisory Board. A final decision on this tentative schedule will be made Monday morning.