The location of this Saturday's CBBN 4A/3A league championship -- a three-way contest between East No. 1 Hanford (6-0-0) and West Nos. 1 Wenatchee and Eastmont (tied at 4-0-1) -- is still up in the air.
But one thing is for certain -- it won't take place at George Prout Pool in Richland.
"We're not swimming outside here," Hanford coach Kathy Piper said, adding that the meet's site as of Wednesday night was still a toss-up between Moses Lake and Wenatchee.
"It's too cold to host a meet that significant outside," Piper said. "Having a nice indoor aquatic center would help our situation."
And questions still loom as to how exactly the meet will be scored.
"If it were Wenatchee, it's a no-brainer. It would be a head-to-head dual meet. When you have a third team in there, how do we score the meet? Not everybody in the league is in agreement on how we should handle it.
"The athletic directors are wading through it to make the best decision."
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"I have to confirm (today)," West Valley athletic director Joe Coscarart said, "but we have at least part of the first week of January to try and continue discussions with the other league mates to see how this whole thing shakes out."
Apple a day
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Let's see -- just how much would an apple cost if the picker had to be paid, let's say $21 an hour? I guess that old adage, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" would need to be changed to "an apple a day, only the rich can pay." Think about that as those apples sit rotting in the orchards this year.
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Ten superintendents, representing the 15 schools in the CBBN, have been invited to attend a meeting scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Yakima School District main office.
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As expected, the seven Tri-City high schools and Walla Walla High officially submitted a letter to the Columbia Basin Big Nine to withdraw from the league at the end of the school year.
The eight schools will form a new league featuring four Class 4A schools and four Class 3A schools.
"The next step is the athletic directors and principals will begin the process of putting together the league schedules, developing new bylaws for the new league and working with students and staff for a new name of the league and logos and those types of things," said Richland Superintendent Jim Busey.
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