Sabbath Day Tourney Moved for Jewish Players
Sabbath Day Tourney Moved for Jewish Players
DALLAS (CN) - On the eve of a high school basketball championship slated for this weekend, a Texas athletic association agreed to reschedule for Orthodox Jewish players who filed suit to avoid forfeiting because of the Sabbath.
The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools had scheduled a state basketball championship tournament to take place on Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, 2012, in the Mansfield Independent School District.
One of the schools that made it to semifinals, the Houston-based Robert M. Beren Academy, said its orthodox Jewish players could not play because of the Sabbath.
Six players filed a federal complaint Thursday against TAPPS and Mansfield. The school announced within hours that the conference agreed to reschedule.
The game will now take place Friday afternoon.
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