war on the floor

	What:	War On The Floor 2002 HS Boys' Summer Tournament
	When:	June 22-25, 2002 Championship Games @ Taft HS Tuesday, June 25 8:30 p.m. (Gold) 5:40 p.m. (Silver) 4:20 p.m. (Bronze)
	Where:	Pierce JC & Taft HS (Pool Play) Taft HS & Canoga Park HS (Bracket Play)
	Who:	24 Top SoCal High School Teams

The War on the Floor kicks off today at Pierce College and Taft HS with pool play. Dennis Magro, who is assisting Bort Escoto with the details of adminstering the tournament telephoned a few days ago to let us know about some schedule and participant changes, and unfortunately, we haven't had the time to post them until now.

First: Rolling Hills Prep will not participate. They have been replaced in the tournament by Oaks Christian HS, from Westlake.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D	Pool E	Pool F
Compton Centennial Montclair Prep Sylmar Daniel Murphy	Chaminade Moorpark Chatsworth Paraclete	Oaks Christian Locke Notre Dame (S.O.) Granada Hills	Dorsey Taft Palmdale LA Baptist	Inglewood Oxnard Quartz Hill Canoga Park	Hart El Camino Santa Monica Huntington Park

Second: The 12:45 p.m. game at Taft HS on Saturday will feature Compton Centennial vs. Daniel Murphy HS.

Third: The 6:15 p.m. game at Pierce South will feature Dorsey vs. L.A. Baptist.

Fourth: The Sunday 2:05 p.m. game at Taft HS will feature Inglewood vs. Oxnard

We're not aware of any other changes, but we can't say there haven't been any since Dennis called on Thursday.

Saturday Pool Play Schedule (revised)
Time	Taft HS	Pierce South	Pierce North
12:45 p.m.	Compton Centennial vs. Murphy	Locke vs. Notre Dame	Moorpark vs. Chatsworth
2:05 p.m.	Taft vs. Palmdale	Chaminade vs. Paraclete	Rolling Hills Prep vs. Granada Hills
3:25 p.m.	Oxnard vs. Quartz Hill	Montclair Prep vs. Sylmar	Hart vs. Huntington Park
4:45 p.m.	Inglewood vs. Canoga Park	Paraclete vs. Moorpark	Locke vs. Granada Hills
6:15 p.m.	Notre Dame vs. Rolling Hills Prep	Dorsey vs. LA Baptist	El Camino vs. Santa Monica
7:35 p.m.	Chaminade vs. Chatsworth	Canoga Park vs. Oxnard	Quartz Hill vs. Inglewood

Sunday Pool Play Schedule
Time	Taft HS	Pierce (South)	Pierce (North)
12:45 p.m.	Inglewood vs. Oxnard	Palmdale vs. Dorsey	Murphy vs. Montclair Prep
2:05 p.m.	Quartz Hill vs. Canoga Park	Sylmar vs. Centennial	Chatsworth vs. Paraclete
3:25 p.m.	Santa Monica vs. Hart	Rolling Hills Prep vs. Locke	Dorsey vs. Taft
4:45 p.m.	Huntington Park vs. El Camino Real	Sylmar vs. Murphy	Palmdale vs. LA Baptist
6:15 p.m.	Chaminade vs. Moorpark	Notre Dame vs. Granada Hills	Centennial vs. Montclair Prep
7:35 p.m.	Quartz Hill vs. Canoga Park	Hart vs. El Camino	Santa Monica vs. Huntington Park

As we previously noted, pool play will eventually sort itself out into three brackets, each with 8 teams, which will work out very nicely since there are an even 24 teams in the tournament competing in six pools. Of course seeding will work out kind of funny, because not every second place team will make the "Gold" bracket, but like past Wars on the Floor, this one will have a complicated points-total-differential-margin-of-victory formula...no doubt.

Anyway, there will be three brackets of single elimination play, a "Gold" (for first place teams and two second place teams out of pool play), a "Silver" bracket, which will undoubtedly feature the remaining four second place teams and two third place teams), and a "Bronze" bracket, which will have everyone else left standing out of pool play.

The Gold Championship will be played at Taft HS on Tuesday, June 25, at 8:30 p.m.
The Silver Championship will be played at Taft HS on Tuesday, June 25, at 5:40 p.m.
The Bronze Championship will be played at Taft HS on Tuesday, June 25, at 4:20 p.m.

None of the bracket play games will be at Pierce JC (only pool play games will be at Pierce).

Only first round Silver bracket games will be played at Canoga Park HS (gym entrance is located just off Topanga Canyon Blvd, just north of Vanowen). The remaining Silver games will be played at Taft.

And in the Bronze bracket, two of the first round games (11:00 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. on Monday) will be at Canoga Park HS; all other games will be played at Taft HS.