Ray Hamill/HumboldtSports.com – Aacata head coach Charlie Espinoza and his players look on during a recent game.
By Ray Hamill — At least one local team is moving on from the first round of the North Coast Section playoffs before Wednesday’s busy night of action.
The Arcata girls were scheduled to open the postseason at home against Ygnacio Valley, but have been handed a forfeit win.
The Wolves say they have been forced to forfeit because of injuries and unforeseen circumstances.
Tickets purchased through GoFan have been refunded, but according to the NCS it may take between five and 10 business days for the refund to show up in accounts.
The Tigers are seeded No. 4 in the Division-4 bracket and will now advance to this weekend’s quarterfinals.
The Arcata girls will host the winner of Wednesday night’s opening-round game between No. 5 McKinleyville and No. 12 Branson on Saturday.
Wednesday’s canceled game at Arcata High was supposed to be played as part of a playoff doubleheader with the Arcata boys, who are scheduled to play No. 13 Middletown.
The boys game will go ahead at 7 p.m.
Also in action on Wednesday night, in Division 4 the No. 5 McKinleyville boys will host No. 12 Eureka at 7 p.m., while the No. 6 Fortuna boys will host No. 11 Terra Linda, also at 7.
The Fortuna game will be broadcast live on The Beat 95.1 FM.
In Division 4 girls action, No. 5 McKinleyville will host No. 12 Branson at 5:30 p.m., and No. 7 Del Norte will host No. 10 Fortuna at 7.
The Del Norte/Fortuna game will be broadcast live on KPOD 97.9 FM and on DelNorteSports.com.
In Division-6 girls action, No. 9 South Fork will also play at No. 8 Calistoga at 5:30 p.m.
Categories: Arcata, Basketball
Once playoffs start, no cash at the gate… and likely no refunds because at the gate, the teams are going to be playing the game, no forfeit… but, if a forfeit in the blue moon occurs on-site, cash back is easy and immediate…
…the online only gofan ticket sales is rubbish… and all fans should boycott playoff games until cash at the gates is allowed again like before, when the CIF was less controversial …
… and, does gofan wave the $1.50 service fee for a transaction, or does the CIF or school pay back the gofan fee… backwards is not forward, cash is forward thinking, not backwards.
Personally, I just experienced this cashless front gate policy by a CIF water bucket carrier yesterday, and then discovered the website for the CIF section mentioned nothing about online ticket sales only…
…communication these days among leadership types really stinks… easy stuff to let people know what is up, but to little avail…
… just force people to use a payment system that is flawed, based upon game forfeit status… front gate admissions cash avoids all the technological deterioration… why sporting fans are not complaining much is beyond my understanding… High School sports benefit from fans, so let fans pay for admission with cash… cash is more sensible today than ever… rejecting cash is un-american and against the values of American Culture… and begs the questions of who these CIF decision-makers are, and how to get them gone.
Math and time expenditures suggest NCS is plane wrong going cashless… sure taking money as soon as possible, like years in advance, is more efficient to run the operation on the front end… but years down the road, what are ya selling…not the advance tickets already sold on a promise that a game is played…
… and when a forfeit occurs, more time expenditures for an already paid for content… .
The State wants cashless everything through special services fees businesses… to raise taxable transactions even more… to tax more… everything now, our kids are where politicians and leader-less types have taken us… at a crossroads for public participation, forcing people to do things in ways that are unnecessary, exclusionary and less efficient…
… and nobody is going to argue that the forced online only ticket sales plus additional service charge for the transaction is a better or safer experience than a cash transaction at the gate for a general admission ticket, when a forfeit occurs.
These are the types of actions that keep some referees, fans away from high school sports because these kinds of actions violate the fan’s, referee’s personal human standards. Fans, officials, parents, guardians, etc… of all ages should be allowed to pay cash, even if it is the child’s paper route money.
[According to NCS, the new ticketing policy allows a “safer and enhanced experience for students and fans while allowing the section to operate more efficiently prior to the playoff game and at the gate.” Read more here.
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