Havre Central set to host 22nd annual girls basketball tournament

A year ago, Havre Central athletic director Shannon Patterson was scrambling to get enough teams for the annual Havre Central girls basketball tournament.

This year there were plenty of teams lining up to play in the 22nd annual tournament, and Patterson thought the headaches she had last season were gone. But that would be too easy. A week ago, Medicine Hat's St. Mary's junior high pulled out, leaving Patterson a team short.

Instead of trying to find a team at the last minute, she put the Central seventh-grade team in the tournament and the problem was solved.

"It was so much easier this year...