East Side Allocations Look Decent

It appears Eastern Washington schools are going to fare as well as could be expected when playoff allocations are announced.

The new three-team 1A league and the four-team 3A Frontier League probably will receive one berth in the state basketball tourneys each of the next two years.

That may become official next weekend at the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association’s spring representative assembly.

Allocation of berths is the main concern as the state goes from four to five classifications based on size.

The 4A Greater Spokane League, as well as the Big Nine, is likely to gain two state berths. The 2A Great Northern League, with eight members, will get three.

District 9, which includes the Whitman County League, is going to get two berths into the State B tournament for boys and girls for each of the next two years. In District 7, which includes the Bi-County and Panorama leagues, the boys get four and the girls three next year, with that number reversing the following year.

The GSL has pooled its state berths with the Big Nine to produce some terrific regional tournaments. District 7 hopes to do the same with Districts 5 and 6.

Track numbers are the similar.

The S-R released the football allocations in March but those will change if the Rep Assembly eliminates the “East-West Freeze,” which regionalizes football, baseball, soccer and wrestling.

, DataTimes