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The fields were no worse Saturday afternoon then they were Friday afternoon. They had moved at least one game as of Friday afternoon.

In Columbia last year there were severe thunderstorms with tornado's Saturday afternoon and evening. There were some areas of Columbia that were seriously affected by the tornado's.

Kind of a moot point since they cancelled the games anyway.

I still think they are laughing all the way to the bank.

"If you look at the brackets that were allowed to play they were brackets where MP teams had a chance at winning a medal. They knew the situation with the weather when scheduling and made sure these brackets were at venues that did not have to close due to weather and it would not affect their teams that had a shot at winning or gaining a medal."

The above is the funniest thing I've read tonight. I think kitten blew that one up with her post.

Just an FYI as well, I was out playing an adult league on Wednesday at Patriots and there was some standing water in small areas on our field. Given how poorly those fields drain, I'm not at all surprised that they started to have early problems on some fields out there. As bad as I've seen those fields get, I'm also not surprised that there were injuries as well.

Hope your player gets well quickly, Coach Chass!

To arsenal2...

yep, there were severe thunderstorms in Columbia last spring.....but they were LATE Saturday...after the majority of games had been played for the day.

The FIELDS in Columbia were not affected by the tornadoes last spring.

They cancelled that tournament Saturday evening around 9 or so. We woke up to a dry, sunny morning on Sunday. AND...it did not rain hardly at all Saturday night.

If you want to defend Columbia, then there is no way you can attack MP for cancelling in much worse conditions than Columbia.

Thanks, AK...and just to be clear, that wasn't a complaint about having to play on that field on Saturday--as I said before, I saw MPSC folks out on that very field with squeegees Friday night and Sat. morning trying to clear the excess off. I just mentioned that to say that there was mounting evidence as the Saturday games went on that player safety was becoming an issue in continuing to play on those fields. There was a torrential downpour around noon (luckily while we were at Alex's eating lunch) that I'm sure added an inch or so to the water level on the PP fields.

I'm not defending or attacking anybody, just stating a fact.