A snow storm wiped out Monday's entire slate of Wheeling Hospital OVAC Girls' Basketball Tournament games.
The plan, for the moment, is for three of the quarterfinal games to be played today and the remaining seven Wednesday, according to tournament director Rick DeLuca.
The consolation games are in flux, as today also marks the cutoff date for next week's boys' tournament, meaning a full night of boys' games have already been scheduled.
''It's not so much the games,'' DeLuca said, ''but there's only so many officials.
"You have those 10 more games, and you throw those on 20 more boys' games and you're going to start running into problems.''
Many Ohio Valley officials work both boys' and girls' games, so supply could fall short of demand.
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The revised schedule follows:
Wheeling Hospital OVAC
Championships
Tonight
Championship Semifinals
Class 5A
John Marshall at University
Indian Creek at Morgantown
Class 2A
Clay-Battelle at Wheeling Central
Consolation Pool
Frontier at Magnolia
Buckeye Trail at Toronto
- ? ?
Wednesday
Championship Semifinals
Class 4A
Oak Glen at Steubenville, 6:30 p.m.
Martins Ferry at Union Local
Class 3A
Shenandoah at River
Monroe Central at Fort Frye
Class 2A
Shadyside at Bridgeport
Class 1A
Madonna at St. John, 7 p.m.
Trinity at Conotton Valley
Monday, Feb. 11
Consolation Pool
Meadowbrook at Harrison Central
DeLuca said some schools were looking at the possibility of playing the girls' games in front of the boys' games and canceling the scheduled jayvee games.
At this point, all avenues are being discussed.
With more snowfall in the forecast, there's a possibility this problem could persist. Not to fear though, the OVAC is the type of organization that has contingency plans for its contingency plans.
In this case, if the semfinals are wiped out, they'll take the top seeds and move on to Saturday's championship games at Ohio University Eastern.
In the unlikely event they don't get any games in, the No. 1 seeds in all five classes would be crowned champions. That's customary in all OVAC tournaments.
''If we get more horrible weather, that's the way it would go,'' DeLuca said.
There is no leeway here as far as rescheduling. The Ohio girls' sectionals begin next week.
