Touch finals washed out and put on hold

The 10 Narrabri Touch Inc matches scheduled to be contested at the Cooma Oval fields yesterday evening were all washed out.

Two of those were finals games, with the B-grade ladies’ competition finals series scheduled to commence.

All other games were last round matches for each respective comp.

In the B-grade ladies’ competition Xtra and Blue Birds were set to meet in the qualifying final while Phoenix Two390 and RSL Roulettes were scheduled to go head-to-head in an elimination final.

The winner of the qualifier would have played first-placed Hounddogs in next Monday’s qualifying final, while the loser would have played the winner of the elimination final in next week’s elimination semi-final.

The qualifying final and the elimination final have both been postponed to next Monday. They will be played at 5.30pm.

The qualifying semi-final and the elimination semi-final will then both be played at 6.35pm, meaning that three B-grade ladies’ teams will play two games each on Monday evening.

The finals series for the other four competitions will all begin next Monday.

In week one of the A-grade men’s and ladies’ and men’s B-grade and C-grade comps the top two ranked teams will play against one another in the qualifying semi-finals, and the bottom two ranked teams will meet in elimination semi-finals.

The winner of the qualifying semi-finals will advance straight through to the March 30 grand finals, but the losers of those games will play preliminary final matches against the elimination semi-final winners on Monday, March 23.

The winners of those preliminary finals will earn the second grade final spots.

See Thursday’s Courier for next Monday’s full schedule.