LYNN — Lynn Elementary Tournament organizer Sean Morris was beginning to get worried when yet another nor’easter pounded the Lynn area with almost two feet of snow earlier this week. After losing a full day last week due to a storm as well, it was starting to look as if they wouldn’t be able to fit in all of the games in time. But, they found a way.
“Two days is tough to make up, but we found a way to make up last week’s missed games on Saturday,” Morris said. “And for the games we missed Wednesday night, we weren’t sure what we were going to do, but luckily the city was very gracious and will allow us to use the gym (at Pickering) again on Sunday to make up those games.”
Using the gym on Sunday means that Morris only has to push out the games one day, keeping the city championship games set for next Friday on schedule. The girls and boys all-star games will follow next Saturday.
As for the action so far, Morris says everyone has been enjoying themselves and some great games have been played. His own team, the Division 2 Lynn Woods girls team, lost to Sisson on Thursday night, 10-4, to end its season.
“We’ve had a really good year with a lot of improvements,” Morris said. “We really focused on our defense this year and it showed tonight. We played Sisson during the regular season and they scored around 30 points on us, so to hold them to 10 tonight says a lot about the girls’ effort.”
There are four more games on tap for today at Pickering, starting with a Division 1 girls matchup between Drewicz and Tracy at 3:15. A Division 1 boys game between Callahan and Hood will follow at 4:30 before a Division 2 boys game between Lincoln-Thomson and Aborn at 5:45. The evening will close out with a Division 2 boys game between Brickett and Lynn Woods at 7.
The Lynn Elementary Tournament includes a boys and girls team for each school, with 34 total teams that take part. The teams were split into two divisions based on school population.
Last year, the Sisson boys won the Division 1 boys title, while the girls from Hood beat Sisson to win the Division 1 girls title. In Division 2, Lincoln-Thomson got the win on the boys side and Lynn Woods earned the win on the girls side.
