Coupeville Sports

Thanks to the snow and ice, Avalon Renninger and her teammates will now open the playoffs at home, and not on the road. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Everything changes.

After two days of postponements thanks to snow and ice, the District 1 girls basketball playoffs will finally kick off Wednesday night.

Just not the way they were originally planned.

Having lost two days, and wanting to hold to the tournament’s original end date — Saturday, Feb. 9 — athletic directors from the North Sound Conference and Northwest Conference have come up with a compromise.

Instead of a double-elimination tournament in which Coupeville High School would have started on the road, we’re now looking at a modified single-elimination tourney in which the Wolves get to unexpectedly host a playoff game.

CHS, the #3 seed from the NSC, was originally set to play Lynden Christian, the #2 team from the NWC, on the road.

After that, teh Wolves would have played either King’s or Sultan, also on the road.

The new format takes the top four teams in the eight-team tourney (King’s, Meridian, Lynden Christian, and Cedar Park Christian) and pits them against each other in the first round.

Win or lose, those teams advance to play a second game.

The other four teams (Coupeville, Nooksack Valley, Granite Falls, and Sultan) are now paired off in loser-out games.

The Wolves (8-9 on the season) draw Sultan (7-13), the #5 NSC seed, and a team they have beaten 44-34 and 29-27 this season.

As the higher seed, Coupeville hosts the game Wednesday, Feb. 6, with tip-off set for 7 PM.

Ticket prices for playoff games are:

Adults / Students w/o ASB – $7.00

Students w/ ASB – $5.00

Children / Seniors – $5.00

If the Wolves win Wednesday, they advance to play a road game against the loser of King’s and Lynden Christian Friday, Feb. 8 in a second-loser out game.

Win there as well, and Coupeville clinches a trip to bi-districts. First, though, it would play one more game, Saturday, Feb. 9, to decide the #3 and #4 seeds out of District 1.

The updated bracket:

http://www.nscathletics.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2883&sport=12

PS — The Coupeville Middle School girls basketball opener, which had been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday, has been cancelled, and will likely be rescheduled at a later date.