The Lewis and Clark Conference held their April meeting last night and several changes were adopted that will effect conference activities next year.
1. Admission prices for conference sponsored activities will be $5 for adults and $4 for students. Conference sponsors activities are defined as activities between conference schools in which the conference activity passes were designed were free admittance. Tournament prcies will also be raised to $5 and $4.
2. It was agreed to start charging admission for conference one act, speech, and the conference vocal and instrumental music concerts.
3. Mileage for visiting teams to conference basketball tournaments will no longer be paid.
4. Coleridge withdrew as a member of the Lewis and Clark Conference.
5. Allen is adding a gym addition to their school. They will be added as a host site for conference volleyball and basketball tournaments.
6. Revisions to the Conference basketball tournament effective next year.
a. The first round junior varsity games will be dropped. The top four seeds will host first round games. The #1 seed will have a bye. The #2 seed will host games between 7 vs 10 and 2 vs 15. The #3 seed will host games between 6 vs 11 and 3 vs 14. The #4 seed will host games between 5 vs 12 and 4 vs 13. The 8 seed will host the 9 seed at the site of the 8 seed. The host school will play the second game at each site. If the host school does not think they can host because of gym capacity or other factors they may pick an alternate site that is not being used. If a host picks a site outside of the conference, fees for rental and other expenses will be paid by the host unless given permission by the conference president.
b. Move the boys semi-finals to Saturday of week 31 at one site and leave the girls semi-final on Friday of week 31, but play at one site. This would eliminate the problem of girls and boys teams from the same school playing at different sites during the semifinals.
c. Seed the consolation round according to the closest losing seed. (example 15th seed vs 14th seed). The tournament directors will determine consolation bracket after 1st round games are completed. The lowest remaining losing seed after the 1st round does not play the consolation round.
d. Consolation rounds will be played at one site at 5:30 pm. Only sites with two gymnasiums will serve as host sites for the consolation round. The teams playing in the second and thirs games of the consolation will warm-up in the auxiliary gym. Teams must be given at least 5 minutes warm-up in the main gym.
e. Consolation sites
2010-11 Girls Wakefield; Boys Homer
2011-12 Girls Ponca; Boys Winnebago
2012-13 Girls Bloomfield; Boys Wakefield
2013-14 Girls Homer; Boys Ponca
2014-15 Girls Winnebago; Boys Bloomfield.
I voted against the change in conference basketball (#6) because Bancroft-Rosalie was left off the list of hosts for consolation games. The athletic directors seemed to have overlooked the fact that we have two gyms.
