Yesterday the British Columbia Football Conference postponed the game between the Kamloops Broncos and Westshore Rebels that was scheduled for 6PM at Hillside Stadium in Kamloops. On Friday, the conference had made the decision that the game would tentatively be played as planned as air quality conditions that day would have made the game playable. Unfortunately, by Saturday morning conditions had worsened to the point where conditions were unsafe for our player’s so the game was postponed as of 11:30AM.
This morning, following a meeting of members of the BCFC executive the decision was made to cancel the game altogether and have the Westshore Rebels and Kamloops Broncos play what will essentially be a “winner take all” game for 4 points when the teams meet in their game scheduled for September 15 at Westhills Stadium in Langford.
The decision to cancel the game rather than play the game on the lone bye weekend (Labour Day weekend) was made due to the uncertainty of air quality going forward as well as the uncertainty of whether the Broncos home field would be available and if the Rebels would be able to secure bus and ferry accommodation on the long weekend.