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Why schedule a tourny before High School State is over? Why not let these ladies stay loyal to their freinds and community?
We weren't planning on it (draft schedule from last fall didn't have us starting until weekend of June 10) and we will absolutely support any of our players who are still in the State Tournament when our first TB tournament comes along. But the Dayton Metro tournament is an ASA/USA qualifier and going to the ASA/USA tournament is one of our team's goals. Given that the statistical odds of several TB players still being in the State Tournament on June 3rd-5th were very low, we opted to enter the Dayton Metro. We are now also facing player conflicts because of graduations of siblings and because of exams. Again, we totally understand those conflicts. I believe that the sponsors of the Dayton Metro qualifying tournament will seek to avoid these conflicts for HS players in future years.
It's a risk that we undertook and no player will be penalized because they can't play that weekend. My comment about sweating it out simply reflects the fact that the weather has increased the odds that we won't win this bet.