GREENVILLE — In order to beat an approaching winter storm, the Division 4-6A Tournament has moved its championship games to this afternoon at Greenville High School. The title games for the four-team division had been scheduled for Friday night.

The Warren Central Lady Vikes (17-8) will try to beat the Greenville-Weston Honey Bees (20-3) for the first time this season in the girls’ final at 3 p.m. The fifth ranked Vicksburg Gators (24-2) will face the Greenville-Weston Hornets in the boys’ title game at 4:30.

Winners of today’s finals will host a first-round satellite game in next week’s North State Tournament. The losers must travel. This year, Division 4-6A is matched up against Division 2, which includes Olive Branch, Southaven, Horn Lake and DeSoto Central.

For the Lady Vikes to pull off an upset of the Honey Bees, who were a preseason second-ranked team in Mississippi, they will have to do it without starting forward Michelle Jones. Jones was helped off the floor early in the fourth quarter of WC’s 50-46 win over archrival Vicksburg on Tuesday afternoon. She did not return.

On Wednesday, Jones, who was on crutches, said it was doubtful she’ll play.

“I may have strained my meniscus. It doesn’t look good,” Jones said.

WC coach Jackie Martin-Glass said Jones’ injury and the moved up playing date is an unexpected double whammy for her team.

“It’s one less day for us to prepare, and we’ve got other people who can’t practice (Wednesday),” Martin-Glass said.

The loss of Jones, though, is particularly hard. She had become a reliable third scoring option behind Ricille Davis and DeShaundra Eatmon. She had seven points in the Vicksburg win and had earlier scored 13 in a key win over Clinton.

“We’ll probably move in either Kierra (Ross) or Audrianna Ratliff in her spot,” Martin-Glass said.

The other big concern for WC is the Honey Bees led by Ole Miss committ Breanna Lewis.

“Because of where we are right now, I may just play zone. I don’t want to give them a lot of easy layups,” Martin-Glass said. Lewis leads the Honey Bees with one of the top scoring averages in the state at 28.1 points per game.

The Vicksburg Gators, meanwhile, are looking to avenge of one of only two defeats they have suffered this season. The Hornets beat them 58-54 in Greenville. Vicksburg won the return match easily at home.

VHS coach Dellie C. Robinson was expecting the move to today.

“It was something we talked about before we started Tuesday. With that weather coming in, we needed to play early Thursday,” Robinson said.

Contact Jeff Byrd at jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com