Closings postpone Anne Arundel games, swim finals
Schools were closed in Anne Arundel County on Wednesday, postponing athletics events for a second straight day. All other local public school systems were open with games to be played as scheduled.
County basketball games will be made up on Thursday if teams do not have non-league games already scheduled. Severna Park and Old Mill will move their boys and girls games to Monday. The showdown between the No. 5 Arundel girls and undefeated and No. 6 Meade will be Thursday at 6:45 p.m. at Arundel.
In swimming, Meade, Southern, North County and Glen Burnie will have their meet Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at the Annapolis Swim Club. Old Mill, Annapolis, Chesapeake and Northeast will follow at 6 p.m.
The county swimming championships have been moved to Feb. 12 at 4 p.m. at the Annapolis Swim Club. Originally scheduled for Friday, the meet was moved so teams do not have to swim on back-to-back days, said Greg LeGrand, coordinator of athletics for the Anne Arundel County public schools.
Archbishop Spalding was also closed for the day, postponing the girls basketball game between No. 1 St. Frances and No. 3 Archbishop Spalding. Plans for a makeup game were not finalized as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Comments
Not worried about AA Co. swim championships.....real area swim fans will be at the MIAAs next weekend. Loyola, McDonogh, and Calvert Hall are three of the fastest HS teams on the East Coast..... should be a real treat!
Posted by: swimfan | February 3, 2010 11:28 AM
Just wanted to be clear, PG county, and several other counties were closed. Not sure what you meant by "all other local public schools were open". They may have gone ahead and played scheduled games, I don't know. But AA Co was NOT the only county closed.
RESPONSE FROM KATHERINE DUNN: Hi Shelly, Thanks for commenting. Just to clarify for everyone, for The Baltimore Sun, local means Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties. All of those are open today and their games are going as scheduled. I know there were other counties whose schools were closed, but we do not cover the schools in those areas. I understand why you would consider PG County local for you, but it is not local for us.
Posted by: Shelly | February 3, 2010 11:46 AM