When Greenville-St. Joseph pulled out of the Lady Vikes Invitational, Warren Central coach Dana McGivney had to make some calls to find a replacement.

Lady Vikes Invitational Saturday

at Warren Central

Warren Central vs. St. Aloysius, 8:30 a.m.

Vicksburg vs. Clinton, 9:45 a.m.

Terry vs. St. Aloysius, 11 a.m.

Clinton vs. Brookhaven, 12:15 p.m.

WC vs. Terry, 1:30 p.m.

VHS vs. Brookhaven, 2:45 p.m.

Consolation, 4 p.m.

Championship, 5:15 p.m.

Longtime rival Clinton answered.

The unbeaten Lady Arrows (7-0) make their second trip to Vicksburg in a week and round out the six-team field, with one stipulation.

“Clinton only wants to play their two pool games because Terry is also in it, and they don’t want to play Terry because they are in the same division,” McGivney said.

“What it means is Vicksburg and Brookhaven are guaranteed to play three games. I had to move some things around. Instead of Terry playing in Vicksburg’s group, they are now with us and St. Al. Clinton replaces Greenville-St. Joe and will play both Vicksburg and Brookhaven and then leave,” McGivney said.

The tournament opens Saturday morning with the Lady Vikes (2-3) taking on St. Aloysius (3-2) at 8:30. Vicksburg (1-3) plays Clinton at 9:45. The Lady Arrows clubbed VHS 18-0 Monday at Bazinsky Park.

Vicksburg coach Amanda Yocum hopes to see some improvement.

“The key thing for us is to make routine plays. We didn’t do that,” Yocum said.

McGivney wants to see the same thing.

“If we can play some error free ball, we can win some games. We didn’t do that in our first tournament game last week against St. Andrews and we lost,” McGivney said.

WC lost 8-3 but came back to defeat Terry 12-3. They then lost 14-4 to Clinton.

“We played a really good game against Terry. It’ll be a tough game this time because they have a good team,” McGivney said. “I haven’t seen St. Al but I know Brookhaven usually has a pretty good team.”

Contact Jeff Byrd at jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com