Cattle Trail basketball tournament postponed

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Mother Nature has been declared the winner in the first round of the Cattle Trail Invitational Basketball Tournament.

The annual tournament, featuring eight high school boys and girls teams from southwest Nebraska and northwest Kansas, was scheduled to open Tuesday in McCook with 16 first-round games. But the incoming blast of winter weather in the area helped tournament officials to postpone Tuesday's first-round action.

Darin Nichols, McCook Public Schools Athletic Director, said first-round games have been pushed back to Thursday. Nichols said the first-round schedule will be the same as Tuesday's original slate.

The opening games of the tournament will open Thursday at 3:30 p.m. with eight games at the McCook Senior High School gym and the McCook Junior High gym.

Three games in three days

All 16 teams in the Cattle Trail tournament will now play three games in three days. Championship and consolation semifinal rounds are set for Friday, Dec. 11. The finals, from seventh-place games up to championship action in the boys and girls divisions, are scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 12.

The area schools entering boys and girls teams in the annual tournament include Arapahoe, Dundy County-Stratton, Hayes Center, Hitchcock County, Maywood, Medicine Valley, Southwest and Decatur Community of Oberlin, Kan.

Watch Wednesday's Gazette Sports pages and here on the Gazette Web site for the revamped Cattle Trail Tournament schedule.

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