Today’s - Saturday Games cancellled

1 Feb 2020 by Lions Comms

Hi all we have just received the following from Basketball SA;

Due to the unprecedented weather conditions and our concerns for potential injury resulting from some venue court floors we have made the decision to cancel all junior district games this morning. We have begun to advertise this via web and social media and these club emails.

While we understand that we will have positive and negative feedback from this decision it is taken in the best interest of all participants.

It appears we will miss the majority of the remaining wet weather but when you combine the following conditions over the last 2 days they have created a situation seldom seen.
1) 43 degrees Thursday
2) Heavy rain with high temperatures causing flash flooding across SA and leak issues within a number of game venues both Basketball SA and council controlled.

We have had a number of venues checked at 6am this morning and while rain is currently not a major issue the internal temperature and humidity (approx 85%) is causing condensation resulting in slippery floors. This will only increase during the early games as more people enter the venues. This will affect venues in different ways but the end result is potential safety hazard from slippery floors and therefore our decision to cancel all games and not just a couple of venues.

Please apologise on our behalf to all members but these conditions are not in our control and unlike some may think the severity of the passing storm last night and resulting aftermath this morning could not be predicted. We have experienced rain issues at some venues (both BSA and council) over time but last night with a combination of water and slippery floors we had safety issues that increased as the night went on and affected St Clair, Marion, ARC, The Lights, Wayville, Pasadena and Port Adelaide in different ways.

As we have limited time to make up games before season ends we will look at games they may impact finals positions and notify you in the next couple of days to which team/s may be required to play a catchup game.

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