VALLEY CITY, N.D. (vcsuvikings.com) –  The Barnes County Athletic Association and Valley City State University have announced changes to the annual Girls Basketball Barnes County Tournament.

Instead of playing a three-day tournament in early December at VCSU’s W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse, the participating teams will schedule and play three regular season games that week at home locations of the participating schools. The games will be non-tournament contests with all opponents determined ahead of time. The games will be scheduled for Dec. 8, 10 and 12.

Events in Barnes County are currently restricted to 100 people, based on the current recommendations from the ND Smart Restart Guidelines. Those attendance restrictions, the loss of two participating teams this year, and VCSU basketball schedule changes due to COVID-19 all contributed to the decision to change this year’s event to a non-tournament format at the high school locations.

This is the first time since 1975 that the girls tournament will not crown a tournament champion.

A final decision has not been made yet regarding the format for the boys tournament in January 2021.

2020 Girls Barnes County Tournament Schedule

Tuesday, Dec. 8

Enderlin @ Barnes County North

Wyndmere-Lidgerwood @ Maple Valley

LaMoure-LM @ Sargent County

Thursday, Dec. 10

Enderlin @ Sargent County

Barnes County North @ Maple Valley

LaMoure-LM @ Wyndmere-Lidgerwood

Saturday, Dec. 12

Wyndmere-Lidgerwood @ Enderlin

Sargent County @ Barnes County North

Maple Valley @ LaMoure-LM