WIAA to move girls state hoops tourney to Green Bay

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STEVENS POINT - The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control has agreed to move the girls state basketball tournament to the Green Bay area, leaving the boys in Madison through 2020.

The executive committee made the recommendation to play the girls tournament in the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon for the next two years. The boys state basketball tournament will stay in the Kohl Center.

The decision comes two months after the staff had suggested a five-year deal to play both tournaments at the Resch Center. The WIAA was concerned by language in the new contract making it possible those tournaments could be displaced by regular season events at the University of Wisconsin. That language was not in the current contract which runs through next year.

In other Board action, it also authorized the anticipated move of the State Summer Baseball Tournament to Concordia College in Mequon this summer. The new format features a one-day tournament with semifinal games followed by the championship final Friday, July 20. The tournament has been held at Bukolt Park in Stevens Point since 1989 when it moved from West Bend, which was the initial location of the tournament from 1965-1988.

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