Snow and troublesome winter weather has forced holiday high school basketball tournaments to be postponed.
The annual Peter Turonis/Pennstar Classic that was scheduled to begin tonight has been pushed back to Thursday, according to Carbondale Area athletic director Erik Larson. The event will begin at 6 p.m. with Mid Valley playing Lakeland and will follow with Valley View playing against tournament host Carbondale Area.
Also, the Coughlin Holiday tournament that had a showdown between two state-ranked teams in the opener has also been moved to Thursday. Abington Heights, the No. 1 team in The Times-Tribune boys basketball poll and a Class AAA state-ranked team, is scheduled to play Meyers, a state-ranked Class AA team, at 6 p.m. Nanticoke will play host Coughlin at 7:30 p.m.
The Forest City Rotary boys tournament consolation and championship games have been rescheduled for Thursday. Host Forest City will play Mountain View in the consolation game at 5:30 p.m., while Western Wayne will play Tunkhannock in the final at 7 p.m.
The Honesdale Jaycees boys and girls basketball tournaments have been postponed to Friday. Consolation and final games will be played Saturday.
Top-ranked Honesdale will be the second game of a girls doubleheader against No. 5 Wallenpaupack at Honesdale High School at 7:15 p.m. Forest City faces No. 7 Western Wayne in the first game that tips at 5:45.
In the boys event which is held at the Wayne-Highlands Middle School, No. 9 Wallenpaupack plays East Stroudsburg South at 6:30 p.m. and No. 5 Honesdale meets Nazareth at 8 p.m.
Also, the Taylor Lions girls tournament has been moved to Friday with its consolation and championship games moved to Sunday at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Friday's matchups at Riverside High School feature West Scranton playing Nanticoke at 6 p.m. and Lackawanna Trail taking on the host Lady Vikes at 7:30 p.m.
The Angelo Schifano Christmas tournament has been moved to Thursday with Dallas against Old Forge at 6 p.m.