Game times for third-round playoff games announced

Division 1
Hartland Arrowhead at Fond du Lac, 4 p.m.

Division 3
Waupun at Kewaskum, 4 p.m.

Division 4
Mayville at Ripon, 6 p.m.

It's kind of a bummer that the games all have to be at the same time. Combined with the fact that we'll probably have at least one, if not two teams playing for a WIAA state volleyball championship on Saturday, that means we won't get to cover all of them.

When all the teams play at once, it's very difficult to determine which games to cover, which game to send a photographer to, and which games to rely on a call/fax for.

Last week was brutal. We decided fairly early in the playoffs that I'd probably cover Fondy no matter where/when it played... save for a 7 p.m. Saturday game because I'm also responsible for putting the newspaper together for the next-day's publication. But Mukwonago was a bit too far to send a photographer, who also has to shoot other events for the rest of the paper. Therefore, we decided to send the photographer to the WLA-Mayville game.

So that's why in Sunday's paper, the main story was about Mayville's 28-7 victory over WLA, and the exciting Fondy finish was bumped to the bottom of the page. Had we known what we know now, I'd probably send someone to the Waupun-Wisconsin Lutheran game.

But hindsight is always 20-20, and we try to do the best we can. Unfortunately when the games are all scheduled for roughly the same time, we are somewhat limited.