Is this really the best schedule?
This week has been absolutely bonkers in terms of slate of events in high school sports. It is easy to understand the fact everyone is trying to wrap the school year up before graduation. It is not easy to understand why the postseason of spring sports needs to be so condensed.
When you have the situation of baseball and softball having postseason games going on at the same time you have to ask, “How can this be adjusted?” Add in track and tennis postseason events going at the same time and now you have a can of worms.
Take Eastern Greene, for example. The Thunderbirds played a softball sectional game Monday night involving Indy Workman and Shelley Tarr. Workman and Tarr play on the track team too, but the way the IHSAA scheduled everything would have forced them to pick just one sport. Had Eastern Greene defeated North Knox Monday, Eastern Greene would have played Linton Tuesday night. The same night for track regionals where the two T-Birds earned a chance to run in a relay.
Eastern lost Monday night though, so they did not have to choose between softball and track Tuesday.
The point though, is they should not have had to choose. The schedule should have staggered the two sports more so that there would be no interference. At small schools in Greene County, it is not uncommon to see people play baseball and track in the same season. The current schedule of events places schools with kids on multiple sports during the spring at a disadvantage.
The current schedule also makes it tough for these spring sports to stand out. When the top goal is to get them done and out of the way, and not provide exposure for growth in the programs, the schedule has to change.
Linton fans Wednesday had to choose between the softball sectional final at South Knox or the baseball sectional at Mitchell. Why do they have to overlap?
There is no way to make the postseason perfect for spring sports but there has to be a way it can be better.
- -- Posted by jerry-workman on Mon, Jul 19, 2021, at 10:58 AM
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