Submitted photo – A photograph taken of Mike Whalen Field on Tuesday morning.
By Ray Hamill — After 48 hours of uncertainty, the Del Norte Warriors got the news they hoped for on Wednesday morning when they were informed they will get to host Saturday’s big state championship game in football after all.
Del Norte will play El Monte from Southern California for the 5-AA state championship, and the CIF officially announced the game will now go ahead at Mike Whalen Field in Crescent City as originally planned.
On Monday the CIF expressed concern that the field conditions might not be suitable for such a high profile game, and was considering moving the game from the grass field to Humboldt State’s Redwood Bowl, which has an all-weather surface.
The Warriors, however, have insisted all along that their field is in excellent condition, sending drone footage of the field to the CIF and also covering it with a tarp to hold off the forecast rain this week.
The game will be the first-ever state championship in football to be played in Del Norte County and it is anticipated as many as 2,000 local fans could show up.
Game time is set for 6 p.m.
Yet again CIF tries to screw over teams in the North to benefit the teams in the south from having to travel… and they use field conditions as usual…
… Drone footage and a tarp, for without such, CIF would have made that change even though they would have never sent a representative up to the field to inspect it with representatives from the school… we all know they’re pieces of fecal matter at CIF…
… this crap has happened often in the recent past so it’s no wonder the intelligence that was undertaken up at Del Norte High School to make sure they weren’t going to get submarined by cif’s BS…
Hope everyone can find lodging considering the girls Jaycee’s tourney is this weekend also….