SCOOBA – For the fourth consecutive year, East Mississippi Community College has been selected to serve as a tournament host for this month’s MHSAA Middle School Basketball Invitational. As announced by the Mississippi High School Activities Association, EMCC has been chosen as one of eight community college and university campuses throughout the state to serve as host sites for this weekend’s opening-round play. Tournament action is slated to begin today and continue through the final two weekends (Jan. 23-24 and Jan. 30-31) of the month.
Saturday’s game times this weekend at EMCC are slated for 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m. with alternating girls’ and boys’ contests. A 1 p.m. girls’ contest between Houston and the Waynesboro Riverview-B.F. Liddell winner will be followed at 2 p.m. by the Pontotoc boys’ team taking on the B.F. Liddell-Quitman County winner. Saturday’s slate will continue with a 3 p.m. girls’ matchup pitting Pontotoc against the Kemper County-West Point victor followed by the boys’ nightcap between Columbus and the Kemper County-Waynesboro Riverview winner at 7 p.m.
Following this weekend’s opening-round tournament action also being played on the campuses of Itawamba CC, Northeast Mississippi CC, Mississippi Delta CC, East Central CC, Hinds CC, Southwest Mississippi CC, and William Carey University, next weekend’s (Jan. 23-24) third- and fourth-round contests will take place in Scooba, Booneville (Northeast Mississippi), Meridian (Meridian CC) and Decatur (East Central CC).
Middle school hoops tournament competition will then conclude on the Scooba campus, Jan. 30-31, with Friday’s tip-offs again at 4, 5, 6 and 7 p.m. Saturday’s girls’ and boys’ championship contests are slated for 1 and 2 p.m., respectively, at EMCC.
Tickets for this weekend’s opening rounds of the MHSAA Middle School Basketball Invitational in Scooba will be available for $10 per day at the Keyes T. Currie Coliseum entrance. Tickets may also be purchased in advance online at gofan.co/app/school/MISSHSAA.
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