By CLAIRE CRUZ, Staff Writer
The La Feria Lionettes will once again be hosting their annual Tommie Wiseman girls basketball tournament this season.
Though the field is a bit smaller than in years past due to an abundance of competing tournaments, a competitive weekend is still expected. The tournament begins today with pool play starting at 9 a.m. and will finish Friday.
Twelve teams will be competing. La Feria, Alamo IDEA and La Feria JV are in Pool A. Pool B features Sharyland High, Santa Maria and Edinburg Economedes. Donna High, Mission IDEA and PSJA Southwest make up Pool C. Mercedes, PSJA Memorial and Weslaco IDEA are in Pool D.
Each team will play two pool games today. Pools A and B will be in La Feria’s main gym, and Pools C and D will compete in the back gym. Teams will be regrouped into three brackets based on pool play results — third-place teams will be in the silver bracket, second-place teams in the gold bracket and the top seeds in all four pools will go to the platinum bracket.
Friday’s bracket play tips off at 9 a.m. The gold championship game is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., followed by the silver championship game at 3 p.m. and the platinum bracket championship at 4:30 p.m. All championship games will be played in the main gym. Each bracket’s third-place game will be played at the same time in the second gym.