Sporting events being canceled due to winter storm’s aftermath (UPDATED WITH FRIDAY CANCELLATIONS; TIME CHANGE FOR CENTRAL-SALLISAW GAMES ON SATURDAY)
Mother Nature’s winter storm she brought this past weekend is still being felt in the local sports realm.
Due to school closings all this week and scheduling conflicts for all eight teams, including the Sallisaw Lady Diamonds and Black Diamonds, the final two days of the Pryor Invitational Tournament were canceled. The original plan was to play championship and consolation semifinals this past Wednesday and the trophy games this Monday, but tournament director David Day said there were too many conflicts with which to have to deal.
The cancellations didn’t stop there.
The McAlester Invitational powerlifting meet for both girls, which was slated for Thursday after being postponed Wednesday, and boys, which was slated for today, was canceled.
The next powerlifting action will be next week, with Muldrow going to the Checotah Invitational at 9 a.m.
Wednesday, the Sallisaw Lady Diamonds going to the Okemah Invitational at 9 a.m. Thursday and the Sallisaw Black Diamonds, the Roland Rangers and the Gore Pirates going to the Okemah Invitational at 9 a.m. next Friday.
Thursday night’s Vian home games against Spiro at B.J. Traw Gymnasium and Gore’s home games against Panama at Gore Event Center also were canceled due to weather.
The Panama-Gore games were rescheduled for 6 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9.
Most of Friday’s basketball games were either canceled or postponed.
Friday night’s Sallisaw-Poteau NOAA Conference games were postponed until 6 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at Poteau High School’s Sherman Floyd Fieldhouse.
Central’s homecoming games with Wister at Gore Event Center were canceled, with homecoming slated to take place at another home game in the future.
Webbers Falls’ home Riverside Conference games with McCurtain on Coach Jerry Ward Court at Webbers Falls Event Center were canceled, as were Gans’ road Riverside Conference contests at Porum.
Muldrow’s road NOAA Conference games at Stilwell were postponed until 6 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9.
Today’s and Saturday’s high school athletic action is still scheduled to take place.
Saturday high school basketball games still on as of press time are Central at Sallisaw and Muldrow at Roland, which was snowed out Tuesday night.
The Central-Sallisaw games will be at 1:30 and 3 p.m. at Paul Post Field House, while the Muldrow-Roland games are slated for 1 and 2:30 p.m. tip-offs.
Saturday afternoon’s Vian home games with Howe have been moved to 6 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9.
Gore has canceled its road games at Stuart on Saturday to be able to make up Tuesday’s snowed-out Riverside Conference home games with Gans, which will take place at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Gore Event Center.
As for high school wrestling, all of our local wrestlers will be at their respective Maverick Conference Tournaments, which all got moved to Fort Gibson for both boys and girls. Action today and Saturday will begin at 10 a.m.
Also, former Vian Lady Wolverine softball player Maisie Wells and the Eastern Oklahoma State College Lady Mountaineers were snowed out of their season-opening doubleheader at Paris (Texas) Junior College on Wednesday. The Lady Mountaineers, who had their original seasonopening twinbill against the Southern Nazarene University junior varsity last Saturday snowed out, will try to get their season underway with a home DH against Arkansas-Rich Mountain beginning at 1 p.m. Thursday in Wilburton.
