Thursday, April 14, 2011

Rod's Thursday Sports Things

The winter weather we are going to get over the course of the next couple of days has forced the postponement or cancellation of a couple of Track and Field meet. Pierre was sending some athletes to Mitchell Saturday for the annual Corn Palace Relays. That meet has now been postponed and rescheduled for Monday beginning at 4 pm. And the track and field meet scheduled in Chamberlain for Saturday has now been cancelled. The weather forcast has also forced cancellation of the opening weekend at Oahe Speedway north of Pierre. They have moved that back to two weeks and the first weekend will be April 30th and May 1st.

Meanwhile the South Dakota High School Activities Association's Board of Directors will have a two day meeting next week in Pierre on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday afternoon will be the Activities Association's Annual Meeting. The Board will meet Tuesday morning beginning at 9 am at the Pierre Riggs High School Theatre and will be adopting District and Region Re-Alignment for the next two years as well as adopt any proposals from the it's advisory committee's and the South Dakota High School Athletic Directors. There will also be several COOP request from various schools. Among the reqest is one from Sanborn Central and Woonsocket to coop in boys and girls basketball, boys and girls track and girls volleyball. Kimball and White Lake are requesting to coop in boys and girls basketball beginning next year. Cheyenne Eagle Butte and Tiospaya Topa are requesting to form a coop in football. Hoven, Eureka and Bowdle are asking to dissolve their football coop and Hoven is requesting to form a football coop with Gettysburg beginning next year.

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