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MHSA moves 2011 state wrestling after Metra damage



MHSA moves 2011 state wrestling after Metra damage

Associated Press The Billings Gazette | Posted: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:49 am | Loading…

HELENA — The Montana High School Association is moving the state wrestling tournaments due to tornado damage to Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark in Billings, which had been scheduled to host the all-class event.

The Class AA wrestling tournament will be held Feb. 11-12 at C.M. Russell High in Great Falls. The Class A tournament will be moved to the Butte Civic Center and the Class B-C competition will be held at Hamilton High School.

The MHSA Executive Board decided Monday to move the events to give teams and fans enough time to plan travel budgets and make room reservations and to give the host cities time to prepare.

The board will decide during its Oct. 15 meeting whether to move the Class A boys basketball tournament, scheduled to be played March 10-12 at the Metra. Board members wanted to give Metra officials more time to finalize construction timelines.

its no surprise since they wanted to give schools enough time to make arrangements and no one knows for sure if the metra will be done.........it will be interesting to see what happens now that they've re-split the classes

I hope that after this year they go back to an All-class tournament, that tournament is one of the best sporting events in the state. Throughout the year these kids regularly compete against kids from other classes and it is nice to see all the tournaments together.

catamaran wrote:its no surprise since they wanted to give schools enough time to make arrangements and no one knows for sure if the metra will be done.........it will be interesting to see what happens now that they've re-split the classes

Hopefully, it will move back to Billings for the all-class which sounds like the plan...if it doesn't prepare for Billings to start bidding on every single event which they don't do now.