McAlester volleyball schedule mix up

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August 24, 2010

By John Yates Local Correspondent The McAlester News-Capital Tue Aug 24, 2010, 11:29 AM CDT

WILBURTON — For the second time in less than a week, a scheduling mixup has affected when matches for McAlester’s volleyball teams were to be played.

Monday, some not-totally unexpected visitors arrived at McAlester: The Oklahoma School for the Deaf volleyball team. However, the players arrived some 72 hours early, at least by McAlester’s volleyball schedule, which had McAlester hosting them for Thursday action in junior varsity and varsity action.

As the visitors arrived early, the two teams went ahead and scrimmaged, but it was not immediately clear whether the scheduled game would be made up.

The Oklahoma School for the Deaf apparently only has school four days a week, and also does not play matches on Thursdays.

Spur of the moment matches would generally be more difficult for volleyball teams in southeast Oklahoma than some other sports, as there are not nearly as many volleyball officials readily available. Most of them traditionally have significant travel to get to McAleter.

Monday’s situation was somewhat different from a scheduling issue that arose last Thursday. Then, again according to McAlester’s volleyball schedule, Bishop McGuinness was to come to play the Lady Buffs in volleyball action, at ninth grade, junior varsity, and varsity levels of play.

That private school from Oklahoma City didn’t show at the anticipated time.

When contacted, they maintained they were not to play that match with McAlester until Sept. 28.

Not counting the Oklahoma School for the Deaf, their next varsity game on the McAlester schedule is not until Aug. 30 at Claremore. However, some of the younger teams have play scheduled before then.

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