March 3, 2005 - Updated: March 24, 2005 - The Section Five Executive Committee
met on March 3rd and again on March 23rd and decided to combine
Class B and Class C into one tournament for 2005. Class A
will also have a tournament.
This year, the annual enrollment figures (BEDS) classified
3 teams into the Class B group, which has enrollments between
450 and 999 students. Current Section Five policy requires
four teams in order to have a tournament. Although both Geneva
and HF-L had requested permission to move up from Class C
to Class B for this year, it made no difference.
Section Five Coordinator, Mike Simon, and his committee have
been working since November to find a format that would be
acceptable to the Executive Committee and at one point it
seamed that a one year exception might be made.
At any rate, the final decision calls for 14 teams in the
Class A Tournament and 14 teams in a B/C Tournament.
Because the NYS Tournament requires A, B and C class teams,
Section Five needed to determine a team in each class who
will move forward in the NYS Tournament. The winner of the
Class A Tournament will represent Section Five in Class A.
The Class B team and the Class C team that advances the farthest
in the B/C Tournament with move forward as well.
Who Will Advance?
A new "NCAA type" bracket has been prepared which
will keep the five "B" teams separate from the nine
"C" teams until the final game. Both teams in that
B/C championship game will move forward into the NYS Tournament,
but only the winner will be the Section Five (B/C) Champion.
What About the Future?
The 2006 BEDS enrollment figures show at least five Class
B teams for 2006, and so it is anticipated that there should
be three tournaments in 2006.
Schedules and Brackets
In the Class A bracket, the top two teams will receive a bye
in the out bracket and will play their first games in the
quarter final round. In the B/C tournament the lowest seeded
teams on the "C-side" will play a pigtail game on
May 18th and the winner will have to play the top seeded team
on the next day (May 19th).
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