Prairie City plays HDL tie-breaker this Wednesday, Oct. 22
Published 5:00 pm Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The High Desert League’s regular season was extended an extra game Oct. 21.
Monument/Dayville beat Prairie City 3-2 Tuesday night in Monument, but the Panthers took the match all the way to the final possible game. Prairie City bounced back and won 3-0 against Long Creek.
“I couldn’t be more happy with the way the girls played,” Monument/Dayville coach Joanne Flower said. “We came out when we needed to.”
Tuesday’s matches gave Prairie City and Monument/Dayville 6-5 league records and tied them both with Burnt River in HDL play. The top six teams in the HDL advance to the district tournament at 9 a.m. Oct. 25. at Grant Union HIgh School in John Day.
Due to the three-way tie for the fifth and sixth seeds, a coin flip was used to determine the fifth seed and the other two teams will playoff Wednesday, Oct. 22.
Monument/Dayville won the coin toss and will be seeded fifth. Prairie City and Burnt RIver will play off Wednesday at the Grant Union gymnasium at 7 p.m. The winner will take the sixth seed in the HDL and final spot in the district tournament.
“I’m absolutely thrilled that we’re going into the tournament in fifth and that we won the coin toss, especially because we don’t have to play another game this week before the tournament,” Flower said.
Crane went undefeated for first place in the league, 11-0, Adrian picked up second, 10-1, Jordan Valley earned third, 9-2 and Spray took fourth, 8-3, to round out the HDL district tournament teams.