Update: Friday, 7:00 am
Chadron State's entire weekend of games has been postponed. The Eagle women's staff learned early Friday morning that it would not be traveling to Gunnison to face Western Colorado Saturday night due to Covid-19.
While working to salvage as much of the weekend as possible, Chadron State had agreed in principal to reinstate the Fort Lewis game for Sunday afternoon after the original Friday night game was postponed, however the news Friday morning means CSC will not face either FLC or WCU this weekend after all.
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By: Dave Collins, Sports Director
Chadron State's second weekend of conference games has hit another rocky start.
Rather than hit the highway for the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the Eagles were among the teams impacted by COVID-19 testing issues Thursday, which is the normal travel day for Friday-Saturday doubleheaders in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
CSC's men's basketball games at Fort Lewis Friday and at Western Colorado Saturday have both been postponed due to COVID-19. No make-up dates have been announced.
The Eagle women were still planning to travel Thursday to face both FLC and Western as scheduled, but delays in getting test results returned in time to depart Chadron for the 12-hour drive to Durango prevented the team from being able to leave.
So, Friday's women's game at Fort Lewis has been postponed, however CSC plans to head straight to Gunnison Friday instead to face WCU on Saturday evening as scheduled at 5:00.
Men's games for Black Hills State at Western and FLC this weekend were also canceled.
With a newly-created open date, Western announced Thursday afternoon that it was replacing Chadron State on its men's schedule Saturday night with Fort Lewis as the schools have agreed to play a "non-conference" game in Durango at 6:00 p.m.
CSC's four pre-Thanksgiving weekend games had previously been postponed and are now January 3 & 4.