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Someone Messed Up ???
Timing of Harrisburg decision rankles C.D.
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BY ROD FRISCO
Of The Patriot-News:
Central Dauphin showed up at Harrisburg's Severance Field ready to play a football game yesterday afternoon and immediately ran into a problem.
There was no game with the Harrisburg Cougars. :oops: :roll:
Harrisburg officials decided to postpone their 3 p.m. game with the Rams at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday just as the Central Dauphin team showed at the John Harris campus and while buses carrying the C.D. band, cheerleaders and other personnel were en route.
The Mid-Penn Conference Commonwealth Division game will be played at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Harrisburg.
Harrisburg athletic director Kirk Smallwood said he made the early afternoon decision after charting weather reports, including Doppler radar that showed the potential for afternoon thunderstorms, and consulting with school administrators as per Harrisburg School District policy.
"We tried to wait until the last minute. But, when there was talk in the forecast of lightning, that's when we decided to postpone," said Smallwood, who said he consulted Harrisburg High principal Evangline Kimber and superintendent Gerald Kohn. "They didn't have a good feeling about playing [at 3 p.m.]."
Kohn, reached at his Harrisburg home, said simply, "We trust the recommendation made to us by our athletic director and coaches." Kimber could not be reached for comment.
The late decision annoyed Central Dauphin School District athletic director Joe Bressi.
"This isn't going to sit well with the conference," Bressi said. "Our team was there, and our band and cheerleaders were on the way. We had no pre-warning, no courtesy call to let us know they were thinking about postponement and to hold our buses."
Central Dauphin building athletic director John Shaffer, who was the contact for a postponement decision, could not confirm a specific time that he received notice from Smallwood but said the 1:30 time "was about right."
"[Smallwoood] just asked me if we could postpone," Shaffer said. "It's his home game, and I didn't think there was much I could say."
"Kirk came to me and said the radar had shown some thunderstorms and the possibility of lightning," Harrisburg head coach George Chaump said. "That made the decision easy."
Central Dauphin's Glen McNamee, set to make his debut as a varsity head coach yesterday, took the decision in stride.
"With the way the weather has been, we had to expect anything," McNamee said. "We just have to take what happens and make a good situation out of it."
Two years ago, Central Dauphin and Harrisburg faced a similar scenario.
The remnants of Hurricane Ivan blasted through the midstate during the third week of the football season. Unlike tropical depression Ernesto, Ivan caused widespread flooding and considerable damage in Harrisburg, enough for Mayor Stephen R. Reed to declare a state of emergency for two days.
With the city and much of the suburbs shut down, schools were closed and the Harrisburg at Central Dauphin game was considered canceled two days after its original scheduled date.
But, one day later, Bressi put that game -- along with CD East at Chambersburg -- back on, played on a Tuesday night at Central Dauphin's Landis Field, citing the need for all four teams to play a scheduled league game.
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BY ROD FRISCO
Of The Patriot-News:
Central Dauphin showed up at Harrisburg's Severance Field ready to play a football game yesterday afternoon and immediately ran into a problem.
There was no game with the Harrisburg Cougars. :oops: :roll:
Harrisburg officials decided to postpone their 3 p.m. game with the Rams at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday just as the Central Dauphin team showed at the John Harris campus and while buses carrying the C.D. band, cheerleaders and other personnel were en route.
The Mid-Penn Conference Commonwealth Division game will be played at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Harrisburg.
Harrisburg athletic director Kirk Smallwood said he made the early afternoon decision after charting weather reports, including Doppler radar that showed the potential for afternoon thunderstorms, and consulting with school administrators as per Harrisburg School District policy.
"We tried to wait until the last minute. But, when there was talk in the forecast of lightning, that's when we decided to postpone," said Smallwood, who said he consulted Harrisburg High principal Evangline Kimber and superintendent Gerald Kohn. "They didn't have a good feeling about playing [at 3 p.m.]."
Kohn, reached at his Harrisburg home, said simply, "We trust the recommendation made to us by our athletic director and coaches." Kimber could not be reached for comment.
The late decision annoyed Central Dauphin School District athletic director Joe Bressi.
"This isn't going to sit well with the conference," Bressi said. "Our team was there, and our band and cheerleaders were on the way. We had no pre-warning, no courtesy call to let us know they were thinking about postponement and to hold our buses."
Central Dauphin building athletic director John Shaffer, who was the contact for a postponement decision, could not confirm a specific time that he received notice from Smallwood but said the 1:30 time "was about right."
"[Smallwoood] just asked me if we could postpone," Shaffer said. "It's his home game, and I didn't think there was much I could say."
"Kirk came to me and said the radar had shown some thunderstorms and the possibility of lightning," Harrisburg head coach George Chaump said. "That made the decision easy."
Central Dauphin's Glen McNamee, set to make his debut as a varsity head coach yesterday, took the decision in stride.
"With the way the weather has been, we had to expect anything," McNamee said. "We just have to take what happens and make a good situation out of it."
Two years ago, Central Dauphin and Harrisburg faced a similar scenario.
The remnants of Hurricane Ivan blasted through the midstate during the third week of the football season. Unlike tropical depression Ernesto, Ivan caused widespread flooding and considerable damage in Harrisburg, enough for Mayor Stephen R. Reed to declare a state of emergency for two days.
With the city and much of the suburbs shut down, schools were closed and the Harrisburg at Central Dauphin game was considered canceled two days after its original scheduled date.
But, one day later, Bressi put that game -- along with CD East at Chambersburg -- back on, played on a Tuesday night at Central Dauphin's Landis Field, citing the need for all four teams to play a scheduled league game.